On Monday, January 13, 2020, Dr. Keith Kluender, Professor in SLHS, will be giving a special lecture titled "Long-standing Problems in Speech Perception Dissolve within an Information-theoretic Perspective". 

Here is a brief abstract of the lecture to give more insight into Dr. Kluender's lecture:

An information theoretic framework is proposed to dissolve (rather than attempt to solve) multiple longstanding problems concerning speech perception. By this view, speech perception can be reframed as a series of processes through which sensitivity to information – that which changes and/or is unpredictable – becomes increasingly sophisticated and shaped by experience. By this perspective, problems concerning appropriate objects of perception (gestures versus sounds), rate normalization, variance consequent to articulation, and talker normalization dissolve. Application of discriminative models founded on information theory provides a productive approach to answer questions concerning perception of speech, and perception most broadly.