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benchmarking academia
Malcolm Gladwell has an interesting article about college education rankings in the current New Yorker. The problem with college rankings, he argues, is that they try to accomplish too much at the same time: rank very different institutions along multiple dimensions. The effect is that decisions about the weighting of the different factors lead to [...]
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scientific literacy
There have been two interesting blog posts on scientific literacy recently on the bps digest. The first addresses how to present findings in ways that minimizes a ‘scientific impotence response,’ where people discard scientific findings because they are incompatible with their world view by resorting to claiming that a certain topic cannot be properly studied [...]
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deadline extended: international seminar on speech production
The next International Seminar on Speech Production will take place next summer in Montreal. Here’s the call for papers: We are pleased to announce that the the ninth International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP’11) will be held in Montreal, Canada from June 20th to 23rd, 2011. ISSP’11 is the continuation of a series of seminars [...]
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the king’s speech
A movie about King George VI is soon to be released in North America (December 10 in Canada), which centers around his stammer, and his successful way of dealing with it in a job that turned out to require lot of public speaking. He worked with speech pathologist Lionel Logue to overcome the problem. You [...]
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experimental and theoretical advances in prosody
The special issue of Language and Cognitive Processes with contribution from the 2008 conference Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody has appeared online: Prosody is the rhythm, stress and intonation of speech, which encodes information that is not encoded by the syntax or words of an utterance. Prosody is critical for parsing speech, constructing syntactic [...]
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prosody.lab at the lsa
The 2011 LSA Institute, at University of Colorado, Boulder, will take place July 7-August 2. The courses have now been posted. If you’re interested in prosody, you might want to check out this one: Prosody in the Lab Instructor(s): Michael Wagner Description: You will learn how to test hypotheses about speech prosody in the lab. [...]
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crowdsourcing workshop