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The role of cognitive flexibility in language processing and language
acquisition| old_uid | 9883 |
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| title | The role of cognitive flexibility in language processing and language
acquisition |
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| start_date | 2015/09/08 |
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| schedule | 11h30 |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle Langevin |
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| summary | Because children and adults interpret speech in real-time, rapidly
making commitments to interpretation essentially on a word-by-word
basis, they must learn to deal flexibly with temporary ambiguities
that arise in the input. In this talk, I'll present a series of
language studies that examine the relationship between language
processing, language learning, and cognitive flexibility. Individual
differences in how well children flexibly respond to representationa
conflict during executive function tasks predict how well they deal
with temporary syntactic ambiguity during real-time comprehension. I
explore how the processing challenges associated with real-time
comprehension constrain grammar learning, and might even constrain the
types of grammars that arise in languages of the world. The results
reveal some of the ways in which the cognitive abilities of the
individual shape the linguistic-communicative system of the group. |
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| responsibles | Sackur |
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