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SUMMARY:Function of Child-directed Speech: Why do We Speak Differently to Young Children? - Dr. Puisan Wong\, The University of Hong Kong
DESCRIPTION:Abstract \nAdults and children across different cultures speak to infants and young children with a special child-directed register characterized by higher and more varied pitch. The function of the acoustic modifications in child-directed speech has been a long-standing issue. The Hyperarticulation theory proposes that child-directed speech enhances the important cues for speech and language processing\, which promotes language acquisition. The Affect theory postulates that affectionate emotions conveyed in child-directed speech capture children’s attention and promote language learning. This talk will present two studies. The first study tested these two competing theories by comparing the perceptual and acoustic-phonetic characteristics of child-directed and adult-directed Cantonese tones. The results refuted the Hyperarticulation theory and supported the Affect theory. The second study tested the Affect theory by examining the effect of child-directed speech and happy speech on children’s word learning. The results supported the Affect theory and explained the relationships between child-directed and happy speech. \nBiosketch \nPuisan Wong is an Associate Professor in the Speech and Hearing Sciences Program in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong. She was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech Communication Arts and Sciences at City University of New York (CUNY) and a Research Scientist in the Department of Otolaryngology at the Ohio State University before joining the University of Hong Kong. She holds the Certificate of Clinical Competence from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Her research aims to discover the process of speech acquisition\, investigate how the process differs in individuals with communication disorders\, and develop effective methods for speech training and intervention.
URL:https://linguistics.hku.hk/event/function-of-child-directed-speech-why-do-we-speak-differently-to-young-children-dr-puisan-wong-the-university-of-hong-kong/
LOCATION:Room 4.04\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20201029T153000
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SUMMARY:An Analysis of Chinese time-synchronic comments on film videos with Natural Language Processing methods - Ms Wenjing Ni\, The University of Hong Kong
DESCRIPTION:  \nAbstract: \nFilms have attracted interests from different disciplines. One crucial question discussed by psychologists is whether a film interacts with the human emotional system. Experiments on film viewers’ self-projection\, identification with film characters\, or immediate neural responses have been evidence of film’s affective power. However\, the study on the contents of viewers’ viewing experience is less explored due to the shortage of their immediate comments on ongoing stories.  \n  \nIn the past decade\, the advent of bullet-screen\, an interactive video comment featured by many Asian video-sharing platforms\, has made it possible to explore time-synchronic video comments. With bullet-screen\, which is laid directly over the screen\, viewers can leave their instant comments towards a specific video element that evokes their emotions or feelings.  \n  \nThis talk will present an ongoing study that aims to uncover Chinese film viewers’ cognitive processes\, which unfold dynamically in time\, by digging into a considerable number of bullet-screens using Natural Language Processing methods. The specific phenomenon studied here via textual clues left by movie viewers is the emotional contagion between movie content and the audience. The study aims to see whether\, without direct interaction\, emotions can also be shared between the film character and the observer.  \n  \nThe researcher is curious about whether certain events\, objects\, or situations in films are responsible for evoking viewers’ particular emotions and the intensity of their emotional responses. By utilizing the corpus built with bullet-screens\, the study will show how to interpret the changing emotional intensity and valence of viewers’ instant responses through movie presenting time with sentiment analysis approach\, and what they perceive\, feel\, and judge about a particular concrete aspect of the film at a specific moment with Topic Modelling method. \n  \nZoom meeting link: \nhttps://hku.zoom.us/j/99064741928?pwd=eU9BRTRZcVo4b3poKzVnNTcvM1N1dz09 \nMeeting ID: 990 6474 1928 \nPasscode: 659637
URL:https://linguistics.hku.hk/event/an-analysis-of-chinese-time-synchronic-comments-on-film-videos-with-natural-language-processing-methods-ms-wenjing-ni-the-university-of-hong-kong/
LOCATION:Room 4.04\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
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