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VeranstaltungsortV.1.23Veranstalter E-Learning-ServiceBeschreibungKontakteLearning Service (elearning@aau.at)

wiwi aktuell_Vortrag: Geospatial data science perspectives on physical geography

VeranstaltungsortSodalitas Bildungshaus, Propsteiweg 1, TainachVeranstalter Institut für Geographie und RegionalforschungBeschreibungWith the rapidly increasing availability of geospatial data, novel geocomputing techniques and powerful software tools, geographical research and professional practice are undergoing a transformation that comes with many new opportunities but also challenges. This talk highlights and discusses issues related to (1) novel types and sources of geospatial data, (2) reproducible and open science, and (3) the potentials and pitfalls of statistical and machine-learning techniques. Which new opportunities arise from the growing amount of geospatial data? What best practices should we follow to make our research open and reproducible? Should we give up model interpretability to improve the predictive performance of our models? Practical recommendations are given based on case studies related to Earth surface processes, and implications for training young geographers are considered.Vortragende(r)Prof. Dr. Alexander BrenningKontaktNatalie Schöttl (natalie.schoettl@aau.at)

Using prosody to predict upcoming referents: the role of recent exposure in the L1 and the L2

VeranstaltungsortE.1.05Veranstalter Institut für Anglistik und AmerikanistikBeschreibungListeners make predictions about upcoming sentence material during language processing. Monolingual English and monolingual German listeners can use contrastive pitch accents to predict upcoming referents (e.g. Ito & Speer, 2008; Weber, Braun, & Crocker, 2006). For example, when hearing Click on the blue book. Click on the RED… (where CAPS indicate a contrastive pitch accent), adults predict that the noun book will be repeated. This leads to facilitative processing if book is actually repeated and to a prosodic garden-path effect if another noun follows red. In contrast, adults are reliably less likely to make the same prediction when hearing Click on the blue book. Click on the red… (without a L+H* accent), suggesting that the prediction is driven by the prosody. In this talk, I will present results from an eyetracking study that extends these previous findings from monolinguals to German-English bilinguals and that explores the role of recent exposure for predictive processing. The results suggest that bilinguals use the same prosodic cue differently in their L1 and their L2. Specifically, the bilinguals in the study show the same patterns of results in their L1 than monolingual native speakers: they engage in predictive processing in their L1 and this predictive processing is modulated by whether or not the speaker has previously used the prosodic cues consistently. In contrast, bilinguals do not initially engage in predictive processing in the L2 and are less sensitive to whether or not the speaker uses the prosodic cues consistently. I argue that the results are most compatible with a resource-deficit account of second language processing.Vortragende(r)Dr. Anouschka Foltz (Bangor University)KontaktAlexander Onysko (alexander.onysko@aau.at)

Mesa de Español

VeranstaltungsortAula BuffetVeranstalter Institut für RomanistikBeschreibungJeden Mittwoch findet von 18:00 bis 20:00 Uhr in der AULA der Universität Klagenfurt ein spanischer Stammtisch statt.Wir sprechen in freundschaftlicher, zwangloser Atmosphäre über verschiedenste Themen, die von allgemeinem Interesse sind.Alle Personen, die Freude an einer spanischen Konversation haben, sind herzlich zum meinen Stammtisch eingeladen, auch Anfänger!Für mehr Information, bitte die Facebook-Website „Mesa de español Klagenfurt“ besuchen.KontaktDr. Jaime Climent de Benito (jaime.climent@aau.at)