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New deadline for Lab 1

8 março 2018, 21:51 • Isabel Maria Martins Trancoso

March 14th 2018, 23:59
Extra office hours:
March 9th, 11:00-12:00
March 13th, 14:00-15:00
Please ignore the masking experiment of Lab 1, because of errors in the reference material (corrected in printed version).

Labs on March 8th

7 março 2018, 15:09 • Isabel Maria Martins Trancoso

Both lab shifts will exceptionally last only 45 minutes. The first lab shift will take place at 14:45-15:30, and the second one at 17:00-17:45. I apologize for the inconvenient explained in class.

Labs and groups

21 fevereiro 2018, 17:14 • Isabel Maria Martins Trancoso

Please register your group ASAP. Let me know if you're having difficulty getting a group partner, so that I can help help.
I'm trying to teach the 2 lab classes using different languages:
14:00-15h30 (in English)
17:00-18h30 (in Portuguese)

Lab classes start tomorrow (February 22).
Please bring your own earphones, and record your birthdate before the class, according to Lab 1.
If your planning to bring your own laptop, please install wavesurfer, and Matlab/Octave.

Sincerely,
Isabel Trancoso

Lecture by Ralph Rose

20 fevereiro 2018, 21:01 • Isabel Maria Martins Trancoso

Date: Monday, February 26, 10h00, INESC-ID, room 336

Crosslinguistic perception and production of filled and silent pauses and raising L2 learners’ awareness of them

Abstract
Filled pauses (e.g., uh/um) in speech are thought to be signs of underlying cognitive processes and hence listeners may see them as signals of such things as syntactic structure. Less is known about the signalling nature of silent pauses however. In this talk, I will share evidence from a series of psycholinguistic experiments to show that both silent and filled pauses may serve a signalling function which listeners are sensitive to across languages. Furthermore, the data show some differences between silent and filled pauses: Silent pauses seem to be more closely related to syntactic structure than filled pauses.
Given the importance of and difference between silent and filled pauses in perception, it behooves second language (L2) learners to become more aware of their use of these phenomena and how they influence their fluency. In the latter part of the talk, I will describe and demonstrate an application I’m developing called Fluidity, which is designed to help L2 learners raise their awareness of different aspects of their speech including pauses and thereby improve their speed fluency.
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Ralph L. ROSE, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Center for English Language Education (CELESE)
Waseda University Faculty of Science and Engineering
3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo JAPAN
http://www.roselab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/
Email: rose@waseda.jp