Higher sem. Biling. Florian Jaeger: Language processing, production, and adaptation [...]
Seminar
Date: Tuesday 12 September 2023
Time: 15.00 – 16.30
Location: Room D289
Higher seminar in Bilingualism. Language processing, production, and adaptation as inference based on past input. Florian Jaeger, University of Rochester. Guest researcher at the Centre for Research on Bilingualism in the autumn 2023.
Language processing, production, and adaptation as inference based on past input
Since I’ll be visiting Stockholm University this semester, I hope to use this presentation as a way of introduction. I’ll cover a few studies I’ve been involved in, and use them to describe the type of questions and approaches that drive my research. I’ll focus on studies that relate to language learning:
- second language learning (Schepens, van Hout, & Jaeger, 2020-Cognition)
- adaptation to unexpected pronunciations, and generalization thereof across talkers (Xie, Liu, & Jaeger, 2021-JEP:General; Burchill & Jaeger, 2023-manuscript; Tan & Jaeger, 2023-manuscript)
- second language production, and the question whether L2 speakers are more variable in their articulation than L1 speakers (Xie & Jaeger, 2020-JASA).
I’ll try to illustrate why I have found it helpful to think of all of these questions as a form of implicit probabilistic inference about the present input based on the representations learned from previously experienced input. I also illustrate how I use computational models of perception, production, and adaptation to guide my research and experimentation.
Last updated: September 7, 2023
Source: Centre for Research on Bilingualism