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DESCRIPTION:Abstract:  One of the fundamental questions in spoken-word reco
 gnition has been the nature of the units that mediate between auditory inp
 ut and lexical items. However\, no consensus could be reached\, and differ
 ent methods favored different types of units (syllables\, phonemes\, featu
 res\, etc.). Maybe as a consequence\, episodic models of the mental lexico
 n claimed that there were no intermediate units\, and the lexicon simply s
 tored multiple exemplars of auditory traces for each word. However\, recen
 t evidence from a perceptual learning paradigm indicated that listeners ea
 sily generalize learning from one lexical item to another\, a result that 
 is difficult to explain without the assumption of some pre-lexical unit. I
 n this talk\, I will present evidence from eye-tracking that perceptual le
 arning indeed influences early perceptual processes. A positive consequenc
 e of this result is that this method may be used to reveal the nature of p
 re-lexical units. Using different learning paradigms\, I will show that pr
 e-lexical units are context dependent and not restricted to one grain size
 . Pre-lexical processing may hence be using more detailed representations 
 than the often proposed context-independent phonological features or phone
 mes.    Bio:  Holger Mitterer is associate professor at the Department of 
 Cognitive Science of the University of Malta. His research focuses on ecol
 ogical aspects of speech perception\, or how we perceive  speech in real l
 ife with all its variation due to the speaker  and the phonetic context in
  which a word or segment appears. His interest in speech perception has al
 so lead to forays into other domains\, such as speech production and colou
 r perception. He uses a range of methods and tools\, such as eyetracking a
 nd electrophysiological measurements. He is a frequent contributor to  Met
 hods-workshops\, both on statistics and eye-tracking. He also maintains a 
 selection of useful Praat scripts (http://www.holgermitterer.eu/research.h
 tml).  Dr. Mitterer's invited lecture is organized by the GRIPP group. GRI
 PP is an interdisciplinary reading group discussing at the intersection of
  Reference\, Information structure\, Prosody and Pragmatics (GRIPP)\, orga
 nized by CRBLM members Aparna Nadig (ɬÀï·¬ SCSD)\, Kris Onishi (ɬÀï·¬ Ps
 ychology)\, Michael Wagner (ɬÀï·¬ Linguistics)\, and Meghan Clayards (McG
 ill SCSD and Linguistics). For more information about the lecture\, please
  contact Meghan Clayards (meghan dot clayards (AT) mcgill dot ca)
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LOCATION:CA\, Goodman Cancer Research Centre\, Room 501\, 1200 Pine Avenue 
 West
SUMMARY:The nature of pre-lexical units: A new approach to an old debate - 
 Holger Mitterer
URL:/channels-contribute/channels/event/nature-pre-lex
 ical-units-new-approach-old-debate-holger-mitterer-226881
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