Neurolinguistics, Phonetics, and Language Change w/ Chiara Repetti-Ludlow

About this episode

Chiara Repetti-Ludlow discusses the interdisciplinary nature of speech processing and language change.

Throughout this episode, Chiara Repetti-Ludlow, a postdoctoral research fellow at Carnegie Mellon's Neuroscience Institute, asks us to consider the essentials of speech processing and its constraints. We hear phonetics, but we understand phonology. How and why? To answer those questions, Chiara takes a highly interdisciplinary approach. We know that linguistics is an interdisciplinary field—it has to be. We can't divorce language from its cognitive, physical, and social apparatuses, nor can language be extricated from human interaction. But academic inquiry has a way of siloing different subfields. And, frankly, it's easier to stick to a rigid set of questions and methodologies. Chiara Repetti-Ludlow's research is exactly what we often hope for in linguistics: interdisciplinary, multi-textured, and conscious of the strengths of different subfields. By bringing together methods and insights from neurolinguistics, phonetics-phonology, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics, Chiara's research attempts to answer granular questions about speech processing. Chiara is a current postdoctoral research fellow in the Carnegie Mellon University Neuroscience…

People in this episode

Host: Talia Sherman

Guest: Chiara Repetti-Ludlow

Topics covered

• neurolinguistics
• phonetics
• language change
• speech processing
• interdisciplinary research

Keywords

• neurolinguistics
• phonetics
• phonology
• speech processing
• sociolinguistics
• psycholinguistics
• historical linguistics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Carnegie Mellon University, NYU, Carnegie Mellon's Neuroscience Institute

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