Anna Mai

studying phonology & neuroscience at UCSD, callsign: AJ6EK

[Anna Mai @annacmai]

Excited to announce this paper is out! We show that brain responses to speech sounds are sensitive to phonemic category even in the absence of acoustic contrast, and we also find some evidence that acoustic covariance may be important to that process
https://t.co/AFSW8wxEgY

[Anna Mai @annacmai]

it's literally this guy

[Anna Mai @annacmai]

you'll never guess what "an O" is

[Anna Mai @annacmai]

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[Anna Mai @annacmai]

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[UAW Academic Workers UCSD @UCSD_Unions_UAW]

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[Tim Sainburg @tim_sainburg]

Across corpora of child speech as young as 6-12 months 👶, we see long range, power-law, relationships in speech. If these relationships aren’t coming from linguistic structure, where are they coming from? 6/n

[Tim Sainburg @tim_sainburg]

New paper "Long-range sequential dependencies precede complex syntactic production in language acquisition" about language acquisition and evolution w/ @annacmai & @tqgentner. We were interested in where long-range correlations originate in language. https://t.co/dIRjMqSzpf 1/n

[Anna Mai @annacmai]

"Unbounded circumambient patterns in segmental phonology" is finally out! Check out the incredible motivating data from Tutrugbu below, and read the full article here: https://t.co/jIYNKSpBg8 (or contact me for a pdf 🙃 )

[Anna Mai @annacmai]

It's v v cool that this kind of phonologically relevant acoustic feature has a stable neural correlate, and as more work is done, it will be interesting to see if/how it contributes to event timing effects that have been attributed the p-center, including gradient syllable weight

[Anna Mai @annacmai]

Here's a thread on why I think this result is neat ✌️

[Laboratory Phonology @LabPhon]

New in #LabPhon: @annacmai examines the impact of onset complexity on syllable duration, intensity, & f0 in English. Onset effects are found to be consistent with correlates of the p-center, rather than categorical syllable weight. https://t.co/I95bazvlim #openaccess

[Anna Mai @annacmai]

These correlates include the timing of the maximum change in intensity during the syllable, an acoustic feature which was recently found to have a well-defined neural correlate in middle STG by @YuliaOganian