By Dr. Daniel Pape, May 1, 2018, 10:45 am – 11:45 am

Department of Linguistics and Languages will host a series of research talks in the next two weeks. ARiEAL Researcher, Dr. Daniel Pape, is the final speaker, and he will present a cross-linguistic comparison of the phonological voicing contrast and its phonetic realization. How do we form phonemic categories? How is speech perception linked to the articulatory and acoustic production of speech? These are classic phonetic questions that are still controversially debated today. Dr. Pape will present experimental and clinical phonetic data to approach these questions. Specifically, he will discuss (1) how the cognitive system is intricately linked to the speech production system based on the phonological voicing contrast, (2) how cross-linguistic differences in Romance vs. Germanic languages surface in perception compared to production, (3) how several acoustic cues of the speech signal are used with varying weights to form a robust phoneme identification and (4) how different anatomical and articulatory pattern shape the acoustic speech output in pathological speech for patients with glossectomy. Dr. Pape will conclude his talk with an excursion into audio-visual speech perception by presenting a phonetic experiment examining the effect of facial hair on speech intelligibility.