[CaCL] (Final!) Room change and topic for next week

[Andrea Sims]

Since many people find the room numbering system in Hagerty Hall to be 
a mystery, just a quick note: Room 406 is on the northeast corner of the 
building (thus, the corner farthest from Oxley, and closest to the Wexner 
Center).

-Andrea

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Andrea D. Sims
Assistant Professor of Slavic Linguistics
347 Hagerty Hall
1775 College Road
Columbus, OH 43210 USA
ph: 614-292-0109
email: sims.120 at osu.edu

On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Fred Mailhot wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> 1) We have a new, finalized room. For the remainder of this quarter we will 
> be meeting in Hagerty 406 (thanks to Andrea Sims and Slavic Linguistics!).
>
> 2) For next week (2010-01-24), we will be reading a recent paper by Alice 
> Turk (get it at http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~fmailhot/CaCL/Turk2010.pdf). 
> Either Beth or I will lead/facilitate the discussion.
>
> Turk, A. (2010) "Does prosodic constituency signal relative predictability? A 
> Smooth Signal Redundancy hypothesis." Proceedings of LabPhon 10.
>
> Abstract:
> This paper explores issues relating to signaling word boundaries from the 
> perspective of Aylett’s Smooth Signal Redundancy proposal (Aylett 2000, 
> Aylett and Turk 2004) that language has evolved to spread redundancy, i.e. 
> recognition likelihood, evenly throughout utterances. In Aylett’s proposal, 
> information that enables listeners to identify sequences of elements in an 
> utterance (signal redundancy) comes from two sources: a) language redundancy, 
> recognition likelihood based on lexical, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and 
> other factors, and b) acoustic redundancy, recognition likelihood based on 
> acoustic salience. Smooth signal redundancy is achieved by a complementary 
> relationship between language redundancy and acoustic redundancy that is 
> implemented via prosodic structure.
> While Aylett and Turk (2004) present the case for prosodic prominence as a 
> leverfor modulating the acoustic salience of syllables, the current paper 
> proposes that prosodic constituency also fulfils this function for words. The 
> current paper proposes that the signal redundancy, or recognition likelihood, 
> of words can be manipulated by signaling their boundaries, and that the 
> occurrence and strength of these boundary markers correlates inversely with 
> language redundancy. Prosodic constituency implements the complementary 
> relationship between language redundancy and word boundary salience.
> Smooth Signal Redundancy provides an integrated explanation for a set of 
> properties
> relating to prosodic constituent structure.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Fred.
>
>
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