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Events for September 21, 2015
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, and Engineering Talk
Mon, Sep 21, 2015
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process, a student led walking tour of campus, and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. During the engineering session we will discuss the curriculum, research opportunities, hands-on projects, entrepreneurial support programs, and other aspects of the engineering school. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process, and financial aid.
Reservations are required for Meet USC. This program occurs twice, once at 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please make sure to check availability and register online for the session you wish to attend. Also, remember to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Seminars in Biomedical Engineering
Mon, Sep 21, 2015 @ 12:30 PM - 01:15 PM
Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Arek Gertych ((Research Adjunct Assistant Professor, Cedars Sinai); James Finley (Assistant Professor in Biokinesiology, Physical Therapy & BME); Terry Sanger (Provost Associate Professor of BME, Neurology & BKN); Amir Kashani (Asst. Professor),
Talk Title: BME Faculty Research Areas
Series: Seminars in Engineering, Neuroscience & Health (ENH)
Biography: Professor Arek Gertych, PhD
http://bio.csmc.edu/view/15048/Arkadiusz-Gertych.aspx
Professor James Finley, PhD
http://pt.usc.edu/jfinley/
Professor Terry Sanger, MD, PhD
http://bme.usc.edu/directory/faculty/core-faculty/terence-sanger/
Professor Amir Kashani, MD,PhD
http://www.keckmedicine.org/doctor/amir-kashani/
Host: Stanley Yamashiro, PhD
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mischalgrace Diasanta
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How Voice Quality Works Articulatorily
Mon, Sep 21, 2015 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: John H. Esling,Professor Emeritus , Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria
Talk Title: How Voice Quality Works Articulatorily
Abstract: The Laryngeal Articulator Model is a novel phonetic view of the vocal tract and the foundation for a revised theory of voice quality. The vocal folds, ventricular folds, aryepiglottic folds, epilaryngeal tube, and larynx height have been shown to be responsible for the generation of multiple types of periodic vibration and complex modification of the pharyngeal resonating chamber, accounting for a wide range of contrastive auditory qualities in the languages of the world. Instrumental phonetic images, drawn from laryngoscopy, ultrasound, and cineradiography illustrate states of the larynx, phonation types, and linguistic exemplars from a range of language families, and measurements leading to multimedia 3D modelling of the larynx within the vocal tract are presented. Canonical voice quality categories are illustrated auditorily with videos of well-known speakers and musical performers.
The model has implications for theories of speech acquisition and sound change. The Laryngeal Articulator is the principal mechanism that infants first learn to control as they test and practice their phonetic production skills from birth through the first several months of life. The auditor acoustic cues generated in the pharynx in the wide range of languages we have observed experimentally are the same elements of sound production observed in early infancy. The infant vocalization data illustrate that laryngeal quality is primal, that control of the articulatory and acoustic cues of speech originate in the pharynx, and that the acquisition of the ability to produce manners of articulation spreads from the pharynx in a process that parallels and complements the ability of infants to discriminate speech-sound categories perceptually. Laryngeal coarticulation is shown to be an endemic element of speech acquisition. Implications extend to the re-evaluation of how the human speech capacity evolved and to the modelling of speech.
Host: Prof. Shirkanth Narayanan
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Talyia White
