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etap
The second conference on Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody is taking place this weekend at McGill University. Check out the conference program. If you’d like to participate, please register here.
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cataphoric focus marking
Shifting prominence to mark focus requires a linguistic antecedent, so if you say ‘A red apple’, chances are you or someone either said something like ‘green apple’, or there is some other reason why antecedents of this sort are salient, for example, someone might have asked: What kind of apple do you want? Marking focus [...]
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etap2
The second conference on experimental and theoretical advances in prosody is just around the corner. It will take place at the New Residence at McGill from Fri 23-Sun 25. If you plan to attend, please register at the conference website.
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prosodylab aligner
The Prosodylab-Aligner is a set of Python and shell scripts for performing automated alignment of text to audio of speech using Hidden Markov Models developed in our lab by Kyle Gorman. It is designed to be easy to use as possible, and with laboratory data in mind. While it ships with pre-trained North American English [...]
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prosody in the lab
Prosody in the lab is a class that I’m currently teaching at the 2011 LSA Institute at the University of Colorado in Boulder. I’ve posted more information on class website.
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etap deadline extended
The etap deadline was extended until June 1st. See the conference website for the call for papers.
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workshop on rhythm in speech and music
The CRLMB and CRMMT are hosting a workshop on rhythm in speech and music at mcgill this week. I’m copying the announcement: CIRMMT Distinguished Lecture by Dr. Ani Patel (co-sponsored by CRLMB) Dr. Ani Patel (The Neurosciences Institute) will give a lecture entitled “Relations between linguistic and nonlinguistic sound systems: Empirical studies,” on April 21st [...]
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neuroblaste
Just came across ‘neuroblaste’, Radio Canada’s pretty awsome animated series about good old neuroscience in Montréal… you know, the MKULTRA-type of research, that you may have encountered in your ethics training on experiments with human subjects (the show is in French): If you’re in Canada, you can watch all episodes here.
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