Series
Dr. Janet Werker (Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia)
Multisensory Foundations of Infant Speech Perception and Early Word Learning
A mechanism for syntactic category constraints in auditory word recognition
Abstract: In this talk I will describe an experiment in the visual world paradigm that aims to distinguish whether syntactic category information prevents activation of lexical candidates that don’t fit the context, or facilitates those that do.
Lunch served at 12:15.
Jim McCloskey (Linguistics; University of California, Santa Cruz)
Understanding ellipsis: corpus, annotation, theory
This event has been postponed due to illness. New date TBD.
Kevin Ochsner - Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SCAN) Lab, Department of Psychology, Columbia Univeristy
Evolving perspectives on emotion, emotion regulation and their social context.
Emmanuel Dupoux (L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
Can AI help the study of language development (and vice versa)?
Steve Nowicki (Biology, Duke University)
Categorical perception and the evolution of communication
The seminar will be followed by lunch with for graduate students with the speaker in 1103 BRB.
Zoe Ovans (NACS/HESP)
Rely on what’s reliable: Effects of cognitive-control engagement on children’s sentence comprehension
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