Lindsay Fuchs has been awarded the Undergraduate Research Initiative Award (URI, $7,500) for her proposal Relevance in accented speech: listener-based factors in understanding situation-bound conversation;
Elizabeth Assefa has been awarded the Canada Graduate Scholarships – Master’s (CGS-M, $27,000) for her study Political lines made divisive; preconceptions, expectations, and the role of nuance in language processing.
Congratulations!
The Centre for Comparative Psycholinguistics is pleased to have been a contributing lab to the award winning article, Rethinking First Language–Second Language Similarities and Differences in English Proficiency: Insights From the ENglish Reading Online (ENRO) Project. Language Learning, 74: 249-294. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12586. The award is presented by Language Learning for using data “from a large multi-site study, which demonstrates cutting edge open science practices.”
UAlberta students Dayna Kindermann, Vanessa Estephan, Rayna Hoedl, Brooke Maffit, Gabriela Holko, and Avara Taralson representing!
Three of our lab members traveled to Edinburgh to present posters and a talk!
Veranika Puhacheuskaya – Talk: “No general pragmatic lenience toward foreigners: The effects of metaphorical language and person-based factors on sensibility ratings”
Veranika Puhacheuskaya – Poster: “The “incredibility effect” revisited: The modality of stimuli and listeners’ implicit prejudice against foreign accents modulate world knowledge integration”
Dalia Cristerna-Roman – Poster: “The role of implicit causality, old, and new information in dialogue reading”
Vera Xia – Poster: “Do Mandarin-English heritage speakers and late bilinguals show inverse patterns in structural priming?”
These talks will be a hybrid of in-person and Zoom. Contact the Lab Coordinator if you would like to attend.
1. September 26, 2022, 9:30am-10:15am MDT
Figen Karaca (PhD student; Radboud University)
‘The role of language experience in predictive processing: Insight from Early Turkish-Dutch Bilingual Adults’
2. November 28, 2022, 9:30-10:15am MST
Radina Mohamad-Deli (PhD student, University of Edinburgh)
‘Implicit Causality in Malay Verbs’
Welcome to Dr. Jiseung Kim, our new Post-doctoral Fellow, and Vera Fiawornu to the Linguistics department and the lab. Check out their bios on the People page!
Our first CCPTalks presentation will feature Dr. Jiseung Kim.
Date: Friday, January 22, 2021
Time: 9:00am MST (GMT-7)
Location: Zoom (contact ccpling @ualberta.ca for link)
Title: Individual differences in the production and perception of prosodic boundaries in American English Abstract:
I present the findings of my dissertation which investigated the hypothesis that individuals vary in their production and perception of prosodic boundaries, and that the properties they use to signal prosodic contrasts are closely related to the properties used to perceive those contrasts. A group of native speakers of American English participated in an acoustic study and subsequently an eye-tracking study that examined production and perception of three acoustic properties related to Intonational Phrase (IP) boundary: pause, pitch reset, and phrase-final lengthening. The results showed individual differences to a substantial degree, and offered limited evidence of a production-perception relation: a trend was observed in which individuals with longer pause durations were faster to fixate on the IP boundary target than those with shorter pause durations.
Congratulations to the following graduate students who completed their degrees in 2020!
Isabell Hubert Lyall (PhD) – Isabell will be staying on at the lab as a post-doctoral fellow
Wenfu Bao (MSc) – Wenfu will pursue his PhD at U of T
Dalia Cristerna-Roman (MSc)
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We have a new group of students in Ling 375 and 475 honing their hands-on research skills:
Chloe Webb, Olivia Luces, Andrés Dorado Solarte, Ashton Freed, Tyler Schnoor, Lydia Samis, Anna Ryjenkova, and Taryn Yaceyko (375); Lindsay Chopiuk, Emily Matishak, and Natasha Daley (475)