Timeline/Schedule

All times are Vancouver time (you can convert times using this link)

• Monday, June 22nd: Please register for the virtual session so we know how many people to expect

• Sunday, June 28th, midnight: Please upload your materials by this date

• Monday, June 29th: All registered attendees will be able to view and comment on uploaded materials.

• July 5, 7-9am: Virtual session held via Zoom

Presentation Abstracts

Virtual Q&A Group 1

Marieke Einfeldt, Rita Sevastjanova, Katharina Zahner, Nicole Dehé, Bettina Braun Active learning systems as a solution for stimulus selection and data modelling in complex behavioural study designs?

Jessie Nixon, Fabian Tomaschek Development of first language cue weights from error-driven learning of the continuous speech signal

Jinghua Ou, Alan Yu The dynamics of cue re-weighting is reflected in the strength of auditory brainstem encoding: Some preliminary findings

William Peralta Place of articulation effects on the cue weighting of voicing

Jia Tian, Jianjing Kuang Contextually dependent cue weighting for the voicing contrast in Shanghainese

Marc A. Hullebus, Adamantios I. Gafos Cue trading of VOT and F1 in infant-directed German naturalistic stops

Virtual Q&A Group 2

Timothy Gadanidis, Yoonjung Kang Speech rate and the perception of consonant and vowel length in Japanese

Kaori Idemaru, Charlotte Vaughn, Neeraj Sharma, Lori Holt Specificity vs. generalizability of dimension-based statistical learning

Donghyun Kim, Meghan Clayards Individual differences in plasticity in speech perception under cognitive load

Jessie Nixon Cue weighting as a result of cue competition and prediction error

Yoonjung Kang, Na-Young Ryu Effects of speech rate on Korean stop perception

Maida Percival The perception of ejective stops in Hul’q’umi’num’ and Dene

Matthew Winn Cue weighting as evaluation of the auditory system

Not present at virtual session (but virtual presentation available in Dropbox)

Jiseung Kim Individual differences in the production and perception of Intonational Phrase boundaries in American English

Registration

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Description

Understanding how listeners integrate and weight various sources of information in the incoming signal is an important component of any model of speech processing. However, the methods traditionally used to measure cue weighting are fairly limited: the majority involve an identification task across many repetitions of systematically manipulated stimuli, and quantify reliance as how well the manipulated dimension predicts listeners' responses. Work done using this paradigm has taught us a lot about how listeners use different sources of information to categorize phonemic contrasts, but it is not clear to what extent findings can generalize to speech perception outside of the sound booth. For example, long experiments might introduce attentional demands, large cue conflicts may be treated differently than small conflicts (as may be the case for audio-visual integration), listeners may adapt to the unnatural lack of correlations among cues (adaptation to experiment conditions has been found in many types of experiments), words in context may be treated differently than those heard in isolation (e.g. because productions are different) and these tasks may not work well for some populations (e.g. children, those not familiar with computers). Furthermore, much of our empirical knowledge comes from a limited number of languages and speech styles. The goal of this session is to discuss how expanding our palette of tasks, analyses, and cues/languages might lead to a more comprehensive understanding of listeners' integration of different sources of information during speech perception.

Presentations in this session may:

• highlight limitations of current methods

• introduce or share less standard tasks or analyses

• compare results across different tasks or analyses

• compare results between ‘robust’ and ‘marginal’ contrasts

• broaden the empirical scope of our knowledge of cue weighting by examining understudied cues and/or languages

Organizers

Meghan Clayards (McGill), James Kirby (Edinburgh), Jessamyn Schertz (U of Toronto),

Contact: cues.out.of.the.box@gmail.com (or any of the organizers)