Events

ILST Seminar: Laurel Sutton

October 18, 2024
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Laurel Sutton Senior Strategist & Linguist Catchword   Career Exploration for Linguists Beyond Academia There are many career options for linguists outside of academia. Discovering them and learning how to connect with and talk to potential employers takes time. In this session, we’ll see an overview of the types of career paths that are available to linguists, based […]

We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu   Mala Murthy Professor of Neuroscience Princeton University   Circuit Mechanisms for Dynamic Social Interaction   Our research explores the neural mechanisms underlying flexibility during natural social interactions – how animals process dynamic sensory cues from a partner, make decisions, […]

ILST Seminar: Delphine Dahan

October 25, 2024
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Delphine Dahan Department of Psychology University of Pennsylvania   Why are dialogues easier than monologues? The role of hedges   There is ample evidence that people are less prone to misunderstanding in interactive settings, i.e., when engaged in a dialogue with their conversational partner(s), than when speakers address unresponsive audiences. Why? While the role of […]

Ann Bradlow Department of Linguistics Northwestern University   Recognition of Second-Language (L2) Speech by Human and Machine Listeners   All else being equal, both human and machine listeners typically exhibit higher error rates for second-language (L2) versus first-language (L1) speech particularly under realistic listening conditions that involve background noise.  In this talk, I will examine […]