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PS/MS Understanding Native and Non-Native Speech (AE_MSSpeech)- Lecturer
- Dr. Miguel Llompart García
- Details
- Mittelseminar
2 cred.h, ECTS studies, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Tue 14:15 - 15:45, room tbd
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all winter term classes will be taught online.
The Proseminar/Mittelseminar Linguistics belongs to the following modules in the indicated degree programs:
BA English and American Studies: Zwischenmodul II Linguistics. (Requirements: completed Zwischenmodul I: Thematisches Kombinationsmodul) Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien: Zwischenmodul L-GYM Linguistics. (Requirements: completed Basismodul Linguistics) Lehramt Englisch an Grund-, Haupt- und Realschulen: Seminarmodul L-UF Linguistics. (Requirements: completed Elementarmodul Linguistics)
- Contents
- We talk and listen to other people talk a lot. We have hundreds of conversations every week and, when these spoken exchanges are in our native language (L1), understanding what is being said seems natural and effortless. However, listening to speech entails carrying out many cognitive tasks very quickly and accurately, like tracking information to find the boundaries between words and evaluating probabilities based on the structure of the native vocabulary and the input received. Considering this, in the first part of the course, we will focus on the mechanisms that allow us to understand speech so effectively in our L1. We will discuss the main characteristics of spoken language (vs. written language), outline the main stages involved in speech perception, and examine how words are recognized and how they are extracted from larger speech chunks (i.e., sentences). In the second part of the course, we will shift our focus to the task of understanding speech in a non-native language (L2), which, in contrast to the L1, can be very demanding (as anybody who has spent a significant amount of time in an L2-speaking country knows). There, we will review the additional difficulties that non-native speakers face when trying to locate L2 words in the speech stream and access the correct conceptual representations for these words, and reflect on what it takes for them to overcome these difficulties.
Evaluation: homework + final written assignment
- Recommended literature
- Required reading
The course will be largely based on various chapters from the following book:
Cutler, A. (2012). Native listening: Language experience and the recognition of spoken words. Cambridge, MA: Mit Press.
All reading materials will be provided by the instructor.
- Additional information
- Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 20
Registration is required for this lecture.
Registration starts on Monday, 21.9.2020, 19.00 and lasts till Saturday, 7.11.2020, 22.00 über: mein Campus.
- Department: Lehrstuhl für Language und Cognition (Alexander von Humboldt-Professur)
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