[lingtalks] Robert Port to speak at USC

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                                                Colloquium Series is proud
to present 

 

 

Prof. Robert Port,

Indiana University

 

Language with Rich Memory

 

 

Monday, March 27th, 2006 2:30- 4:00 pm 

Grace Ford Salvatori (GFS) 101

 

Reception to follow in GFS 330 Conference Room

 

 

 

ABSTRACT:

 

Linguists (including me) have been convinced that the cognitive
representations of language are efficient and rely on a low bitrate code.
Most linguists assume that language employs an abstract, seaker-independent,
rate-independent, and fairly context-independent cognitive notation system,
such as is provided by segmental phonetic or phonological features.
However, experimental evidence on memory for speech unambiguously supports a
far richer representation that includes massive detail -- even about a
speaker's voice -- using the kind of memory called episodic memory or
exemplar memory.  If linguistic memory works like this, then we must
reconsider what the true role of those intuitively powerful and abstract
segmental representations may be.

 

USC Linguistics Department

213 740-2986

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