LINGUIST List 25.1216
Tue
Mar 11 2014
Calls: Sociolinguistics,
Phonetics, Psycholinguistics, Philosophy of
Language/Denmark
Editor for this issue:
Anna White <awhitelinguistlist.org>
Date: 10-Mar-2014
From: Marjoleine Sloos
<msloos
cas.au.dk>
Subject: Bias in Auditory
Perception
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Full Title: Bias in Auditory Perception
Date: 18-Sep-2014 - 20-Sep-2014
Location: Aarhus, Denmark
Contact Person: Marjoleine Sloos
Meeting Email:
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Web Site:
http://interactingminds.au.dk/events/single-events/artikel/bias-in-auditory-perception
Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language;
Phonetics; Psycholinguistics;
Sociolinguistics
Call Deadline: 01-Jul-2014
Meeting Description:
The Interacting Minds Centre (Aarhus
University, Denmark) organises a conference
about the role of expectation in auditory
perception in general, with a special focus on
bias in speech perception. The conference will
have a highly interdisciplinary character. We
strive to bring together cognitive scientists,
(applied) linguists, language therapists,
psychologists, philosophers, and musicologists
who are interested in auditory perception.
Human perception is biased by previous
experiences, beliefs, knowledge, and
presuppositions. Research on perceptional bias
is approached from different angles, e.g.
cross-modal perception, the influence of social
categorization, the role of stereotypes,
(socio-) linguistic context, the influence of
emotions, or the contribution of different
sorts of information. Much experimental
investigation has been carried out in order to
get more insight into biased perception.
However, relatively few of these studies
concentrate on auditory perception. Currently,
we observe an increasing interest in bias in
speech perception, showing that identification
of speech sounds can be influenced by the
information the listener has at her disposal
(which might be justified or not). Among the
factors that play a role in biased speech
perception may be: age, gender, the overall
dialect or ethnolect, sexual orientation, and
ethnic background of the speaker. Growing
evidence shows that also professional linguists
are susceptible to speech bias, which
potentially has important impact on linguistics
analyses (for instance in dialectology and
fieldwork). Moreover, auditory bias may lead to
misjudgement by evaluators in speech therapy,
second language evaluation, or asylum requests,
which may have a serious impact on the speaker
who is evaluated.
Ocke Bohn (University of Aarhus)
Katie Drager (University of Hawaii)
Andreas Roepstorff (University of Aarhus)
t.b.a.
Call for Papers:
Abstracts from different fields are warmly
invited. There will be special session on bias
in speech perception. Speakers will be allotted
20 minutes plus 5 minutes discussion.
Abstracts can be submitted before July 1, 2014.
Notification of acceptance follows on July 15,
2014. Abstracts should not exceed 200 words
excluding references and should be submitted as
a pdf. We have the intention to select papers
for a peer-reviewed special issue on auditory
bias. Please use EasyAbs to upload your
abstract:
http://linguistlist.org/confservices/EasyAbs/customabssub.cfm?emeetingid=5902JA4458BE7A5A406050441
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