题目：Listeners’ misperceptions are the basis of most sound changes.（听话人的误解作为语音变化的基础）
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地点：西溪校区教学主楼259
Given various theories of sound change: (a) due to listeners’ misperception (or misparsing) of the speech signal and (b) speaker-caused modification of speech (in order to make speech easier to pronounce or to make speech more distinctive for the listener), I present evidence and arguments for (a).
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/phonlab/users/ohala/papers/listener_as_source.pdf
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/phonlab/users/ohala/papers/pool_of_synchronic_var.pdf
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/phonlab/users/ohala/papers/icslp-90.pdf
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/phonlab/users/ohala/papers/sound_change_perc_exp.pdf
John Ohala教授国际著名的语音学家，是前任国际语音学会的主席，同时也是认知语言学的权威。有关其介绍可看他个人网站：http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/phonlab/users/ohala/index3.html
