Speech Perception and Production Lab at the University of Chicago (formerly Oregon). Directed (and tweeted) by Dr. Melissa Baese-Berk.
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New! In this episode, we talk to @MtwoBtwo (@UCSPPLab) and @perj44 (@UA_AS), about why instructors should use a variety of voices in the classroom, and how to talk about other ways of speaking when one feels ill-equipped to do so: buzzsprout.com/1537384/15085….
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My lab is hiring a postdoc!!!
More info is here: speechperceptionproductionla…
I'm happy to answer any questions that aren't covered in the ad itself!
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UChicago SPPLab retweeted
17 Apr 2023
Do any of my linguistics/psycholinguistics colleagues have a word-reading task programmed up already in PsychoPy that we could modify? (See a word, read it aloud, advance to the next word?)
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9 Mar 2023
An undergraduate student in my lab is looking for 60 participants for their honors project!
Are you conversational in American Sign Language? Do you like watching movies and TV shows with ASL in them? Would you like to help increase the quality of ASL representation onscreen?
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9 Mar 2023
If so, you are invited to participate in a research study through the University of Oregon, to help assess the intelligibility of ASL dialogue in movies and TV shows! The survey should take around one hour to complete. Every participant will receive a $15 Amazon gift card!
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5 Jan 2023
Another new paper out from the lab: Intelligibility as a measure of speech perception: Current approaches, challenges, and recommendations asa.scitation.org/doi/10.112… in @ASA_JASA with @SusannahVLevi and @kj_vanengen
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We ask what we are measuring when we use intelligibility tasks? What do these measures reflect about talkers? And what about the listeners?
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SPECIAL ISSUE: RECONSIDERING CLASSIC IDEAS IN SPEECH
This paper revisits the notion that second-language learners acquire #speech sound categories in their target language. doi.org/10.1121/10.0015230
@MtwoBtwo @bchandra_pitt @CaseyRoark
@UOLinguistics @PittCSD
#acoustics
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UChicago SPPLab retweeted
30 Nov 2022
Call for Applications for the NSF Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site: Increasing American Indian/Alaska Native Perspectives in Field and Experimental Linguistics, University of Oregon. Deadline is Jan. 5, 2023. blogs.uoregon.edu/reuling/
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29 Nov 2022
This is precisely why, for each study we have about helping people learn languages, the lab has a study on helping people be better perceives. Communication requires multiple parties and intelligibilty/comprehensibility/accentedness can't be attributed just to a talker.
27 Nov 2022
Just watching @steven_bloch 's Stephen Hawking 2022 lecture re: MND & communication. He mentioned Julie Liss - I looked her up and came across this story - it totally shook me 1/2
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16 Nov 2022
We have a new paper out in @ASA_JASA with @bchandra_pit and @CaseyRoark in a special issue about ideas to reconsider in speech perception. We ask whether people learning new languages are really learning speech sound categories, as is commonly assumed.
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16 Nov 2022
Spoiler alert: we don't think (most) people are. If this is the case, how should we think about what people are learning? How does this impact our understanding of current theories of L2 speech sound learning, which are predicated on categories being the target of learning?
21 Oct 2022
Our department @UOLinguistics is hiring! We seek candidates specializing in language description based on primary data collection on an under described language or language family. Let us know if you have questions!! careers.uoregon.edu/cw/en-us…
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UChicago SPPLab retweeted
3 Oct 2022
.@UOLinguistics profs @MtwoBtwo & Gabriela Pérez Báez received @NSF to create opportunities for Native students to engage in linguistic research & explore careers in STEM #indigenouslanguages #NSFfunded #STEMed
around.uoregon.edu/content/l…
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20 Sep 2022
Former undergraduate student Sabrina Piccolo (now a research assistant @mitbrainandcog) also recently published her undergraduate honors thesis: Effect of accent perception on perception of professionalism (repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vo…)
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20 Sep 2022
There's lots of exciting work coming out soon and we're excited to start this academic year off with exciting achievements for many of our lab members!
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