CHD Spring 2008
Acquiring sound patterns:
Language, music, minds, and brains
How do children learn about the sounds around them? A large part of it is detecting patterns in sound, particularly in the crucial communicative domain of speech. Yet children are also sensitive to other sound patterns, such as music. Music can be thought of as the "non-human primate" of speech research--it shares some of the properties of speech (temporal patterning, brain regions utilized), but not all properties. In this seminar we explore both speech perception and music perception from a developmental standpoint.
Fridays 12:00-1:00pm (1:00-1:50pm discussion session)
Cognitive Science Building room 003
Everybody is welcome!
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For any questions, please email Julian Parris
Note*: Some talk titles are tentative and will not be definitive until few days before the scheduled talk
Official Course Description: This seminar explores the development of sound perception in infancy, particularly in speech and music. We will cover speech and music perception in infancy, word segmentation and word learning, language impairments, comparative audition, and commonalities in brain processing across the two domains. Speakers include experts on music perception (Hannon, Patel), speech development (Barlow, Evans, Maye, Werker), and animal communication (Gentner, Goldstein).
Date |
Speaker / Topic |
Topic |
Papers / Links |
04/04/08 |
Sarah Creel |
Open-Class Introduction |
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04/11/08 |
Jessica Barlow |
"On the natural emergence of opacity in phonological acquisition" |
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| 04/18/08 | Tim Gentner |
"The emergence of auditory objects in vocal communication signals" |
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| 04/25/08 | Janet Werker |
"From speech perception to language acquisition: First steps in infancy" |
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| 05/02/08 | Sarah Creel |
"Says Who? Talker Specificity in Lexical Acquisition" |
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| 05/09/08 | Julia Evans |
"Statistical Sequential Learning and Word Learning: Is there any
connection?" |
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| 05/16/08 | Erin Hannon |
"Becoming narrow-minded: The development of culture- and domain-specific musical knowledge" |
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| 05/23/08 | Michael Goldstein |
"Social and statistical mechanisms of vocal learning in songbirds and human infants" |
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| 05/30/08 | Ani Patel |
"Music and the brain: 3 links to language" |
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| 06/06/08 | Jessica Maye |
"You are what you eat: How the language you listen to shapes how you listen" |