BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:17000-6e152180eadb9be4f22196d7f5274a7a@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260814T000813Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230120T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230120T103000 SUMMARY:Dr. Janet van Hell (Psychology, Penn State) DESCRIPTION:\n"Neural and Cognitive Mechanisms of Accented Speech Proces sing: The Role of Speaker Identity and Listener Experience"\n\nDr. Janet van Hell\, Professor of Psychology &\; Linguistics and Co-Director o f the Center for Language Science at Penn State\n\nFriday\, January 20\, 9:00–10:30 a.m. EST\, 127 Moore Building and virtually via Zoom\n\nCurr ent everyday communication is a linguistic melting pot. Many learners of English as a second language have a nonnative accent when speaking Engl ish. We are also likely to interact with people from different language backgrounds\, whose accent may be similar or different from one’s own ac cent. Although behavioral measures indicate that listeners adapt quickly to nonnative-accented speech\, neurocognitive studies have shown distin ct neural mechanisms in processing nonnative-accented sentences relative to native-accented sentences. Janet van Hell will present recent behavi oral and EEG/ERP experiments that studied how speaker identity and liste ner experience affect the comprehension of nonnative- and native-accente d sentences. Specifically\, we studied how listeners’ experience with no nnative-accented speech modulates accented speech comprehension by testi ng different listeners (young and older adults with little experience wi th nonnative-accented speech\; listeners immersed in nonnative-accented speech\; and bilingual\, nonnative-accented listeners). We also examined how faces cuing the speaker’s ethnicity create language expectations\, and how these biases impact the neural and cognitive mechanisms associat ed with the comprehension of nonnative- and native-accented sentences. I mplications of the findings will be discussed by integrating neurocognit ive theories of language comprehension with linguistic theories on the r ole of socio-indexical cues in speech comprehension.\n\nFor more details : https://events.la.psu.edu/event/dr-janet-van-hell-psychology-penn-stat e/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

"Neural and Cognitive Mechanisms of Accented Speech Processing: The Role of Spe aker Identity and Listener Experience"

Dr. Janet van Hell, Professor of Psychology & Linguistics and Co-Director of t he Center for Language Science at Penn State

Frid ay, January 20, 9:00–10:30 a.m. EST, 127 Moore Building and virtually vi a Zoom

Current everyday communication is a linguistic mel ting pot. Many learners of English as a second language have a nonnative accent when speaking English. We are also likely to interact with peopl e from different language backgrounds, whose accent may be similar or di fferent from one’s own accent. Although behavioral measures indicate tha t listeners adapt quickly to nonnative-accented speech, neurocognitive s tudies have shown distinct neural mechanisms in processing nonnative-acc ented sentences relative to native-accented sentences. Janet van Hell wi ll present recent behavioral and EEG/ERP experiments that studied how sp eaker identity and listener experience affect the comprehension of nonna tive- and native-accented sentences. Specifically, we studied how listen ers’ experience with nonnative-accented speech modulates accented speech comprehension by testing different listeners (young and older adults wi th little experience with nonnative-accented speech; listeners immersed in nonnative-accented speech; and bilingual, nonnative-accented listener s). We also examined how faces cuing the speaker’s ethnicity create lang uage expectations, and how these biases impact the neural and cognitive mechanisms associated with the comprehension of nonnative- and native-ac cented sentences. Implications of the findings will be discussed by inte grating neurocognitive theories of language comprehension with linguisti c theories on the role of socio-indexical cues in speech comprehension.< /p>

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/dr-ja net-van-hell-psychology-penn-state/

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