Splash Biography
YEVGENIY MELGUY, ESP Teacher
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Major: linguistics College/Employer: UC Berkeley Year of Graduation: G |
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Brief Biographical Sketch:
UC Berkeley graduate student studying linguistics. Past Classes(Clicking a class title will bring you to the course's section of the corresponding course catalog)O619: Learning to listen: Perceptual learning and how we get better at understanding accented speech in Splash Fall 2020 (Oct. 31, 2020)
Ever have trouble understanding a foreign accent or dialect? Most of us probably have! The good news is that listeners can adapt -- we can get quite good at figuring out what someone is saying even if their pronunciation differs from what we normally hear in our day-to-day lives.
How do we do it? This course will give you a big picture overview. We will start with the basics of speech perception, move on to why accents can cause difficulty for listeners, and finally discuss how this problem can be overcome.
In the process we will answer questions like:
- What do we actually learn when we adapt to an accent?
- Why are some dialects/accents more difficult than others?
- How can we use experiments with artificial accents to answer these questions?
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