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Comprehending with Language| old_uid | 4128 |
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| title | Comprehending with Language |
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| start_date | 2008/02/19 |
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| schedule | 15h45-17h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | MPI Big conference room (1.63) |
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| summary | Language comprehension has long been understood as the comprehension of language-first as the recovery of the syntactic and semantic structure of the linguistic input, and later as the construction of a situation model based on the linguistic input and background knowledge. I will argue that language comprehension is better understood as comprehension with language. That is, language comprehension is a special form of event and action comprehension. In both cases, comprehension appears to involve a mental simulation of the actions and events. However, comprehension with language is special because the mental simulation is not modulated directly by the observed actions and events, but indirectly via language. Thus, the key to developing a theory of language comprehension is to examine how language modulates mental simulations of actions and events. I will discuss recent empirical findings from my lab that speak to this issue. |
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| oncancel | salle inhabituelle |
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| responsibles | Zondervan |
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