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DESCRIPTION:Distinguished Lecture by Dr. Catherine Best\, Chair in Psycholi
 nguistic Research\, MARCS Institute\, University of Western Sydney\nPLEASE
  NOTE TIME CHANGE TO 3:00 PM from the originally posted time of 1:30 pm\nL
 ocation: Room 501\, Goodman Cancer Centre\, ɬ�﷬ at 1160 av d
 es Pins ouest\nAbstract:\nThe phonetic patterns of ambient speech provide 
 the raw materials for infants to discover the principles of their native l
 anguage. By 10-12 months they show attunement to phonetic variations that 
 are relevant in their language\, and declining sensitivity to distinctions
  that are irrelevant to it\, laying the cornerstone for mature listeners’ 
 rapid and automatic recognition of native words. But what makes a phonetic
  distinction ‘relevant’ versus ‘irrelevant?’\nThe answer lies in how liste
 ners relate the phonetic details of a word to its phonological structure\,
  while taking into account the extensive phonetic variations in a given wo
 rd across talkers\, speech styles\, and regional accents. Those phonetic v
 ariations are not “noise\,” instead providing crucial information about tw
 o complementary principles that together define the phonological structure
  of words. One principle is phonological distinctiveness\, which refers to
  language-specific minimal contrasts that meaningfully distinguish otherwi
 se identical spoken forms. The complementary principle is phonological con
 stancy\, which permits listeners to recognize a word across talker and acc
 ent differences. A spoken word’s structure is co-defined by the phonetic v
 ariations that alter its phonological form and those that leave it intact.
 \nDiscovering the balance between those two sides of native speech variabi
 lity requires both episodic and abstract learning\, which moves the child 
 beyond attunement and into the realm of word recognition\, and provides th
 e foundation for adults' rapid\, automatic recognition of native language 
 words.\nBio:\nDr. Catherine Best is the Chair in Psycholinguist Research a
 t the MARCS Institute\, University of West Sydney. Her research and theore
 tical work has focused primarily on how adults’ and infants’ experience wi
 th their native language shapes their perception and production of the pho
 nological elements of spoken words\, including consonants\, vowels\, lexic
 al tones and prosodic patterns. She has applied this theme broadly\, inves
 tigating perception and production of spoken language in populations inclu
 ding second language learners and bilinguals\, as well as children with la
 nguage difficulties. Her research spans different modes and elements of hu
 man language\, including sign language and facial expression. She also exa
 mines culture-specific characteristics of music.\n
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SUMMARY:Devil or angel in the details? Phonetic variation and the complemen
 tary principles of phonological distinctiveness and phonological constancy
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