一、主讲人：Dominic Watt

二、时  间：2016年11月25日(周五)15:30-17:00

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四、主办单位：人事处、365bet亚洲备用网址

   承办单位：英语教育学院

五、讲座内容简介：

语音教学与研究枯燥无味吗？语音学习只包含机械的操练、晦涩的术语吗？York大学语音专家Watt博士的讲座将颠覆这些看法，为你揭开当代语音教学与研究的面纱，展现语音教学的真实面貌、语音研究的广泛应用前景。

摘要：Phonetics is often seen by students on language and linguistics degrees as a dry and descriptive subject, the study of which is little more than an exercise in rote learning of obscure terminology and symbols. In many countries, the amount of time devoted to phonetics and the native-like pronunciation of foreign languages is quite limited, as it is thought more important to spend time mastering grammar and vocabulary. Where the phonetics of languages such as English is taught to foreign learners, it is (probably inevitably) focused upon the pronunciation of the standard variety or varieties (e.g. standard British English or standard American English). Learners are often dismayed to find that they can understand very little of the language when they visit a country in which it is spoken natively, by virtue of the fact that the great majority of speakers do not speak a standard variety, and because of the huge variability in pronunciation that they will encounter. This is certainly true in theUnited Kingdom, in which a great diversity of accents and dialects are spoken within a relatively small area. At theUniversityofYork, phonetics is taught at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The first and second year modules introduce them to concepts in articulatory, acoustic and auditory phonetics, but for more advanced students we offer a varied diet of research-led teaching. This focuses on areas of the speech sciences in which academic staff are carrying out research in theoretical and applied fields. My own research deals with forensic applications of phonetics, sociophonetics (historical and synchronic), and speech perception, particularly multimodal (audio-visual) perception, with and without a forensic element. I also supervise a speech technology PhD project, which is integrating insights from sociophonetic research together with more conventional software engineering-oriented approaches to speaker classification. Far from being a dull chore, simply a means to an end in the language-learning context, I would argue that phonetics is - to paraphrase Henry Sweet - the indispensable foundation of study across an expanding spectrum of disciplines, from the pedagogical to the psychological, clinical, forensic and technological domains.

六、主讲人简介：

Dominic Watt studied for an MA in Linguistics at theUniversityofEdinburgh(1992) and a PhD in Phonetics atNewcastleUniversity(1998), and since then has held research and teaching posts at a variety of institutions in theUnited KingdomandGermany. He joined theUniversityofYorkas Lecturer (then Senior Lecturer) in Forensic Speech Science, to teach on the MSc programme in Forensic Speech Science that began atYorkin 2007. His main research interests are in forensic phonetics and linguistics, speech perception (especially multimodal speech perception in forensic contexts), language and identity studies, sociophonetics, and English dialectology. His current research, being carried out with the support of the UK Economic and Social Research Council, is focussed upon testing the viability of combining heterogeneous speech corpora for use as reference data in automatic speaker recognition (ASR), and the relative utility of long-term spectral measures (formant distributions, MFCCs, etc.) as speaker discriminants. He is also involved in research on language crimes, in particular on the phonetic properties of spoken threats and 'aggressive' speech, and is collaborating with colleagues in the UK and the US on a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust project which is investigating the links between hesitancy phenomena, segmental variables, and conversation topic in speech samples collected for the 'Accent and Identity on the Scottish/English Border' (AISEB) project. He is the author of around forty journal articles and book chapters, is co-author of 'English Accents and Dialects: An Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of English in the British Isles' (Hodder Education, 2012, with Arthur Hughes and Peter Trudgill), and co-editor of 'Language and Identities' (Edinburgh University Press, 2010, with Carmen Llamas), 'Language, Borders and Identity' (Edinburgh University Press, 2014, with Carmen Llamas), and 'The Handbook of Dialectology' (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017, with Charles Boberg and John Nerbonne).

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