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:16771-aa8ca9f583bfb460e9e35be44465b90b@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260412T010943Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241011T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241011T103000 SUMMARY:Navin Viswanathan DESCRIPTION:“Studying Interactive Spoken Language Use”\n\nMany psycholin guists assume that the primary purpose of language is communication (arg uments for this assumption: Fedorenko et al.\, 2024in\; against: Chomsky \, 1995). However\, our current methods for studying the mechanisms and the architecture of spoken language belie this\, often tacit\, assumptio n. For instance\, current accounts of speech perception and production a re derived chiefly from experimental studies that prioritize experimenta l control over studying actual communication. This leaves open the quest ion of how well the identified mechanisms generalize to actual communica tive interactions.\n\nIn this talk\, Navin Viswanathan attempts to exami ne the assumptions and the consequences of taking such a methodological approach. He then proceeds to discuss the primary account of interactive language use (interactive alignment model\; Pickering and Garrod\, 2013 \; 2004) and its instantiation at the phonetic level (Gambi &\; Picke ring\, 2013). In particular\, he examines closely the claim that the def ault mechanism in interaction is one of mimicry (or alignment or converg ence). He concludes this presentation by arguing for the need for having more general accounts of interaction and present a possible candidate i n the dialogic synergy account (Fusaroli et al.\, 2014\; at the phonetic level Olmstead et al.\, 2021).\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.p su.edu/event/dr-navin-viswanathan/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

“Studying Inte ractive Spoken Language Use”

Many psycholinguists assume that the primary purpose of language is communication (arguments for this assump tion: Fedorenko et al., 2024in; against: Chomsky, 1995). However, our cu rrent methods for studying the mechanisms and the architecture of spoken language belie this, often tacit, assumption. For instance, current acc ounts of speech perception and production are derived chiefly from exper imental studies that prioritize experimental control over studying actua l communication. This leaves open the question of how well the identifie d mechanisms generalize to actual communicative interactions.

In t his talk, Navin Viswanathan attempts to examine the assumptions and the consequences of taking such a methodological approach. He then proceeds to discuss the primary account of interactive language use (interactive alignment model; Pickering and Garrod, 2013; 2004) and its instantiation at the phonetic level (Gambi & Pickering, 2013). In particular, he examines closely the claim that the default mechanism in interaction is one of mimicry (or alignment or convergence). He concludes this presenta tion by arguing for the need for having more general accounts of interac tion and present a possible candidate in the dialogic synergy account (F usaroli et al., 2014; at the phonetic level Olmstead et al., 2021).

< p>For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/dr-navin-viswanathan/

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