Kodi theme 2016
Speech perception as probabilistic inference under uncertainty based on social-indexical knowledge.
Weatherholtz, K., Seifeldin, M., Kleinschmidt, D. What the heck is salience? How predictive language processing contributes to sociolinguistic perception. Weatherholtz, K., Campbell-Kibler, K., & Jaeger, T. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Speech perception and generalization across talkers and accents. ĭepartment of Brain and Cognitive Sciences To address these questions, I combine psycholinguistic experimentation and advanced statistical modeling with tools, techniques and insights from sociolinguistics, social perception and cognition, perceptual and distributional learning theories, probability theory, Bayesian inference, computational modeling, phonetics, and syntax. How do inferences about the talker and social identity condition inferences about linguistic categories?.How are linguistic knowledge and social knowledge stored and accessed?.How do people dynamically adjust their perception and production of linguistic categories in response to the environment (e.g., perceptual learning, linguistic alignment)?.How are linguistic representations shaped by the fact that language happens in a social context?.Some of the big picture questions that I address in my research include: My research focuses on questions about language processing and production at the interface of psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics. I am a postdoctoral associate in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester.