SHLRC Seminar
| Seminar Title: |
Hidden
Cues to Grammatical Category, Lexical Stress and Meaning in the Phonology
and Orthography of English Words: A Research Overview |
| Presenter(s): |
Dr
Joanne Arciuli |
| Time: |
1:00
pm, Monday 9th May 2005 |
| Place: |
Forster
Room, 5th floor C5A |
With interests in Cognition
and Cognitive Neuroscience, a primary focus of my research has been the investigation
of probabilistic cues to grammatical category (noun vs. verb), lexical stress
(first-syllable stress vs. second-syllable stress) and meaning (objects vs.
actions) in the phonology and orthography of English words. The identification
of these kinds of statistical regularities and elucidation concerning the
correlations amongst these cues has important theoretical implications for
Saussurean assumptions of the arbitrariness between word-form and function
within human language and also for cognitive neuropsychological- and computational
models of human language processing. The identification of such cues also
has practical benefits for teachers and students of English as a second language,
in the development of remediation strategies for reading-delayed students
and in the development of more natural sounding Text-To-Speech (TTS) systems.
I will discuss the variety of studies that I have conducted including corpus
analyses, behavioural experiments, investigations using Event Related Potentials
(ERPs) and a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) study. I will also outline
works-in-progress and future directions for this line of research. Finally,
I will touch briefly on an additional research interest that falls within
the broad area of Cognitive Science (and overlapping somewhat with Human Factors
research): Interface design for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems.
