Presentations

Chaired conferences

Thanks to everyone who took part in the First and Second International Conferences on Error-Driven Learning in Language, EDLL 2021 and EDLL 2022. The proceedings are available here as PDF EDLL 2021 and EDLL 2022.

————-

Selection of recent conference presentations 

Nixon, J. S. and Tomaschek, F. Modelling predictive learning of the speech signal. 46th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS). 28 February - 1 March, 2024. Bochum, Germany.

Nixon, J. S. and van Rij, J. Gradual emergence over multiple trials suggests the Mismatch negativity (MMN) as an index of learned expectations. Words in the World conference. 1-2 December, 2023. Online.

Nixon, J. S., Lentz, T. and van Rij, J. What do learners predict in a speech learning task? Estimating trial-by-trial neural responses with error-driven expectation measures. Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP). 7-9 September, 2022. York, UK.

Nixon, J. S., Poelstra, S. and van Rij, J. Disentangling strategic task effects in determining which cues are used for prediction. Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP). 7-9 September, 2022. York, UK.

Nixon, J. S., Poelstra, S. and van Rij, J. Does error-driven learning occur in the absence of cues? Examination of the effects of updating connection weights to absent cues. 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 27-30 July, 2022.

Poelstra, S., Nixon, J. S. and van Rij, J. Does learning occur in the absence of cues? Oral presentation at the International Conference on Error-Driven Learning in Language (EDLL 2021). March 10-12, 2021. Tübingen, Germany. [Presented by Sanne Poelstra].

Nixon, J. S., and Tomaschek, F. Infant speech acquisition through error-driven learning of the acoustic speech signal. Poster presentation at the International Conference on Error-Driven Learning in Language (EDLL 2021). March 10-12, 2021. Tübingen, Germany.

Nixon, J. S., and Tomaschek, F. Learning from the acoustic signal: Error-driven learning of low-level acoustics discriminates vowel and consonant pairs. Oral presentation at CogSci 2020, the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society July 29-August 1, 2020. Toronto, Canada.

Nixon, J. S. Cue weighting as a result of cue competition and prediction error. Oral presentation at Cue Weighting: Thinking Outside the Box, LabPhon 2020 Satellite Workshop, July 5, 2020. Vancouver, Canada.

Nixon, J. S. and Tomaschek, F. Development of first language cue weights from error-driven learning of the continuous speech signal. Poster presentation at Cue Weighting: Thinking Outside the Box, LabPhon 2020 Satellite Workshop, July 5, 2020. Vancouver, Canada.

Tomaschek, F. & Nixon, J. S. Learning theory as linguistic theory. Poster presentation at Linguistic Evidence 2020. 13-15 February 2020. Tübingen, Germany.

Nixon, J. S., Ramscar, M. and Tomaschek, F. The emergence of morphological structure from a continuous signal on the basis of error-driven learning. Oral presentation at the International Morphological Processing Conference, MoProc 2019. November 4-7, 2019. Tübingen, Germany.

Nixon, J. S. and Tomaschek, F. (2019). Infant speech sound acquisition as error-driven discriminative learning of the speech signal. Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP). September 6-8, 2019. Moscow, Russia.

Nixon, J. S. and Tomaschek, F. (2019). Learning speech cues from the input. Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning. June 27-29, 2019. Donostia San Sebastian, Spain.

Tomaschek, F. and Nixon, J. S. (2019). Emerging Structures in Random Data Result in Naive Learning. Oral presentation at Psycholinguistics in Iceland -- Parsing and Prediction. June 19-20, 2019. Reykjavik, Iceland.

Nixon, J. S. (2018). The Kamin blocking effect in speech acquisition: non-native cue learning is blocked by already-learned cues. The 11th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon. September 25-28, 2018. Edmonton, Canada

Awarded: $500 CAD for top-ranked presentations at Mental Lexicon 2018.

Nixon, J. S. (2018). Prior learning of acoustic cues blocks learning of new cues in non- native speech acquisition. Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP). September 6-9, 2018. Berlin, Germany.

van Rij, J., Nixon, J. S. and Lentz, T. O. (2018). Modelling of mismatch negativity response and non-native statistical learning. Oral presentation at Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), September 6-8, 2018. Berlin, Germany. [Presented by Jacolien van Rij]

Nixon, J. S. Effective acoustic cue learning is not just statistical, it is discriminative. Oral presentation at Interspeech 2018, the 19th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, September 2-6, Hyderabad, India.

Jiao, D., Watson, V., Wong, S., Gnevsheva, K. & Nixon, J. S. Sociophonetic cues of age estimation in foreign-accented speech. Oral presentation at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 22, 27-30 June, 2018. Auckland, New Zealand. [Presented by Sidney Wong]

Nixon, J. S. & Best, C. T. Statistical variance lowers cue weighting during acoustic cue acquisition: a GAMM model of eye movement data. 20th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP). 3-6 September 2017. Potsdam, Germany.

Nixon, J. S., Van Rij, J., Li, X. Q., and Chen, Y. Context-specific processing and cross- category phonological effects in Mandarin reading aloud: a GAMM model of ERPs. 20th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP). 3-6 September 2017. Potsdam, Germany.

Nixon, J. S., & Best, C. T. Effects of statistical variance during acoustic cue acquisition: a GAMM model. Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP). September 7-9, 2017. Lancaster, UK.