Lecturer: Professor Chen Zhongmin (Fudan University)
Location: Room No.1125 of New Comprehensive Building
Organizer: Center for Cognitive Science of Language, BLCU
Brief introduction to the lecture (On the Interactive Mechanism of Speech Pronunciation and Perception):
Verbal communication is a process in which the speaker sends out a stream of speech, and it is passed into the auditory organ of the listener through the media, and then re-decoded by the listener's brain nerve center. Verbal communication involves both speaking and listening. This lecture will explore the mechanism and characteristics of human verbal communication from the aspects of listening and speaking. The content is divided into: 1. The complementarity of sound organ frequency and hearing organ frequency as well as the uniqueness of human language. 2. Analysis of the frequency of the inner ear basement membrane and the pattern of human speech vowels; 3. The sound masking effect of cochlear hair cells and quantum vowels; 4. The characteristics of auditory nerve discharge and syllable structure, etc., to reveal the interaction mechanism of speech pronunciation and perception.
Brief introduction to the lecture (Speech Perception and Motor Theory of Speech Perception):
This lecture uses the latest research results of neurolinguistics to answer the most important two questions in language cognition: 1. How does human language perception analyze continuous sound wave signals into different discrete units, such as syllables and segments? 2. How does human language perception filter various variations, such as physiological gender differences, differences in speech speed, tone, and context, so that language communication is successful?
Brief Introduction to the Presenter:
Zhongmin Chen, Ph.D. in Linguistics (2000) at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), is currently a professor and Ph.D. supervisor of the Chinese Department of Fudan University, an adjunct professor of the Institute of Brain-based Intelligent Science and Technology of Fudan University, and the vice-president of the Shanghai Language and Literature Association, executive editorial board member and director of Li Fang-Kuei Society for Chinese Linguistics, director of the review board of the International Li Fanggui Society Language Field Awards, deputy editor-in-chief of the Chinese Linguistics Journal editorial committee, and editor-in-chief of Language Research Journal. His professional research and teaching direction: historical linguistics, Chinese dialectology, experimental phonetics, and neurolinguistics.
He is the former professor of the Chinese Department of the Humanities School of Zhejiang University (2004-2011), visiting professor (2007-2009) at the University of California, Berkeley, assistant professor at the National University of Singapore (2001-2002), and adjunct professor of "self-reliance" at Shanghai University (2004-2007).
