Conference Information

Full Title:	Linguistic Variability and How the Mind/Brain Accommodates It

Location:	Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Start Date:	14-Jul-2013 - 14-Jul-2013
Contact:	T. Florian Jaeger
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Meeting URL:	http://www.hlp.rochester.edu/variability/
Meeting Description:	Linguistic Variability and How the Mind/Brain Accommodates It Linguistic communication requires that interlocutors understand each other's utterances. A fundamental challenge to this process arises because of variability: No two tokens of a given linguistic expression are ever the same. Speakers from different demographic categories or linguistic backgrounds will produce a given expression differently. Even within a speaker, variability arises when speakers use different registers, or simply because formulation and articulation are not rigid deterministic processes. This variability raises questions for linguistic and psycholinguistic theory, and poses a formidable challenge to work in natural automatic speech recognition as well as language processing. For more details, please see http://www.hlp.rochester.edu/variability/. Confirmed Invited Speakers: Molly Babel, University of British Columbia Sheila Blumstein, Brown University Ann Bradlow, Northwestern University Joan Bresnan, Stanford University Gary Dell, University of Illinois This workshop will be held jointly with the 2013 LSA Summer Institute at the University of Michigan on July 14. The workshop is organized by Florian Jaeger (University of Rochester) and Victor Ferreira (University of California, San Diego).
Linguistic Subfield:	Cognitive Science; Neurolinguistics; Phonetics; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics
LL Issue:	24.1581


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