{"id":78554,"date":"2022-06-07T10:28:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T14:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=78554"},"modified":"2022-06-07T17:01:46","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T21:01:46","slug":"pronunciation-conference-to-feature-free-public-talk-on-accents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/06\/pronunciation-conference-to-feature-free-public-talk-on-accents\/","title":{"rendered":"Pronunciation conference to feature free public talk on accents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/psllt-2022\/main\/highlighted-speakers\/public-lecture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">public talk hosted by Brock next week<\/a> will bring to light the mystique, social meaning and scientific significance of accents.<\/p>\n<p>Presented by Professor Murray Munro of Simon Fraser University, the lecture will be held Thursday, June 16 as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/psllt-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching (PSLLT) Conference<\/a>, a three-day event hosted by Brock\u2019s Department of Applied Linguistics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody has an accent and that\u2019s something we sometimes forget. We think it\u2019s the other person who has the accent,\u201d says Munro. \u201cWe notice immediately when somebody is just a little bit different from us in terms of speech patterns, and we make social evaluations about people based on how they sound.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Munro explains that part of the reason that people are so perceptive of accents relates to an infant\u2019s early development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe seeds are sown for accents before we even begin to speak,\u201d he says. \u201cDuring the first year of life, the brain is wiring itself on the basis of the speech the infant hears to optimize language learning, which affects our way of speaking. That\u2019s how accents eventually emerge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Munro hopes to welcome a wide audience, including language teachers and speech-language pathologists as well as students working in sociology, linguistics and education.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/psllt-2022\/main\/highlighted-speakers\/public-lecture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cForeign Accents: Their Mystique, Social Meaning and Scientific Significance\u201d<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>When:<\/strong> 5 to 6 p.m. on Thursday, June 16<br \/>\n<strong>Where: <\/strong>Thistle 325 on Brock University\u2019s main campus<br \/>\n<strong>Cost:<\/strong> Free<\/p>\n<p>Full conference registration is not required to attend. Please note that medical mask and vaccine mandates are in effect for all visitors to Brock\u2019s campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A public talk hosted by Brock next week will bring to light the mystique, social meaning and scientific significance of accents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":78555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,9794,38],"tags":[72,703,522,11631],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78556,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78554\/revisions\/78556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}