小蝦米對抗大鯨魚:淺談語音變異對詞彙提取的影響 / 馮怡蓁(國立臺灣大學語言學研究所副教授)

日常生活中,語音變異無所不在。我們常會聽朋友說:「一起ㄘ飯吧!」、「他很聰ㄇㄧㄣˊ。」或者是「我都快被搞到要懷疑人ㄕㄣ了!」雖然對方的發音並非總是字正腔圓,但是大部份的時候,語音變異並未對我們理解語意造成太大困擾,也導致擁有這項「超能力」的我們,幾乎不曾注意這其中有多麼神奇。
  有鑑於此,本次演講即在探討人類的認知能力如何讓我們穿越層層語音變異的迷霧,透視說話者真正想要表達的意思。

本系與臺大人文社會高等研究院合辦【尖端講座系列第二十二場】【Leading-Edge Lecture 22】From Global Warming into a New Ice Age? Climate, Adaptation and Examples from the Past

This lecture starts by clarifying concepts often used in a mixed and unclear way, such as climate, environment, meteorology, adaptation or transformation. It then reviews several examples in history, relating climatic stages or oscillations with human cultural changes, then attempting to draw some conclusions on adaptive trends. In a third moment it reviews contemporary indicators of global warming and what is known as the “great acceleration”, framing them in a longer climate cycle and the mechanisms leading towards a new cooling stage. It finally concludes by suggesting methodologies to adapt to what should be characterised as an uncertain mid-term future.