William Idsardi

Professor, Linguistics
Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
CLaME: Max Planck • NYU Center for Language Music and Emotion
(301) 405-8376idsardi@umd.edu
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Research Expertise
Neurolinguistics
Phonology
Psycholinguistics
Publications
Computational phonology today
Bill Idsardi and Jeff Heinz highlight important aspects of today's computational phonology.
Linguistics
Dates:
Phonemes: Lexical access and beyond
A defense of the central role of phonemes in phonology, contrary to the current mainstream.
Linguistics
Non-ARHU Contributor(s): Nina Kazanina, Jeffrey S. Bowers
Dates:
Categorical effects in fricative perception are reflected in cortical source information
Phonetic discrimination is affected by phonological category more for consonants than it is for vowels. But what about fricatives in particular? Sol Lago and collaborators provide evidence from ERF and MEG.
Linguistics
Non-ARHU Contributor(s): Sol Lago, Mathias Scharinger, Yakov Kronrod
Dates:
What Complexity Differences Reveal About Domains in Language
Do humans learn phonology differently than they do syntax? Yes, argue Bill Idsardi and Jeff Heinz, as this is the best explanation for why phonological but not syntactic patterns all belong to the regular region of the Chomsky Hierarchy.
Linguistics
Non-ARHU Contributor(s): Jeffrey Heinz
Dates:
A single stage approach to learning phonological categories: Insights from Inuktitut
Much research presumes that we acquire phonetic categories before abstracting phonological categories. Ewan Dunbar argues that this two-step progression is unnecessary, with a Bayesian model for the acquisition of Inuktitut vowels.
Linguistics
Non-ARHU Contributor(s): Brian W Dillion, Ewan Dunbar,
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Sentence and Word Complexity
Do we learn different kinds of linguistic structure differently?
Linguistics
Non-ARHU Contributor(s): Jeffrey Heinz
Dates:
A Comprehensive Three-dimensional Cortical Map of Vowel Space
Postdoc Mathias Scharinger and collaborators use the magnetic N1 (M100) to map the entire vowel space of Turkish onto cortical locations in the brain. They find two distinct tonotopic maps, one for front vowels and one for back.
Linguistics
Non-ARHU Contributor(s): Mathias Scharinger, Samantha Poe
Dates:
You had me at "Hello": Rapid extraction of dialect information from spoken words
MEG studies show that we detect acoustic features of dialect speaker-independently, pre-attentively and categorically, within 100 milliseconds.
Linguistics
Non-ARHU Contributor(s): Mathias Scharinger, Philip Monahan
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