Yakov Kronrod at Utah Linguistics colloquium

Yakov Kronrod presents "A Bayesian model of categorical effects in consonant and vowel perception: Ockham's Razor and applications to L2 learning" at the Utah Department of Linguistics colloquium.

April 14th at the Utah Department of Linguistics colloquium, Yakov presents "A Bayesian model of categorical effects in consonant and vowel perception: Ockham's Razor and applications to L2 learning." The talk builds on previous joint work with Emily Coppess and Naomi Feldman and presents recent work on nasals with Jack Diaz (Linguistics/CS undergraduate at UMD) and extensions to L2 learning with alumna and Utah faculty, Shannon Barrios, as well as Bill Idsardi and Matt Winn of UW-Madison.