Natural language research announcements

[Stephen Levinson <sel AT ifp.uiuc.edu>]

Margaret Fleck 
<mfleck AT cs.uiuc.edu>
 wrote:

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> Subject: Psycholinguistic seminar announcement
> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:00:13 -0600
> From: Jennifer Cole 
> <jscole AT ILLINOIS.EDU>
> Reply-To: Cole, Jennifer S 
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> From: Cynthia Fisher 
> [mailto:cfisher AT cyrus.psych.uiuc.edu<mailto:cfisher AT cyrus.psych.uiuc.edu>]
> Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 10:31 AM
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> Here is a description of a graduate seminar I am offering in the
> spring. Please let me know if you have any questions -- I hope you'll
> be interested!
> cheers,
> CF
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> Psych 593CF
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> Spring 2010
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> Special topics in language acquisition:  The development of the
> sentence comprehension system
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> Instructor: Cynthia Fisher
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> Meeting time: W 3:30-5:30, Room 815 Psychology
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> Topic Description:
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> In the first few years of life, children learn thousands of words, and
> also work out the structure of their language at multiple levels of
> analysis (e.g., phonological, semantic, syntactic). At the same time,
> they develop an efficient system for understanding sentences online.
> The adult comprehension system has two fundamental properties: (1)
> Sentence comprehension is incremental: Listeners interpret each part
> of a sentence as it unfolds in time, not waiting until the sentence is
> complete to start computing meaning. (2) Sentence comprehension is
> influenced by multiple information sources, including the referential
> context, the discourse context, word-specific as well as abstract
> syntactic information, and prosody. In this seminar we will read and
> discuss current literature that addresses the development of these two
> fundamental properties of language comprehension. We will read key
> papers in the adult psycholinguistics literature, but focus on the
> emerging developmental literature on these topics. How much we read
> about particular sub-topics (e.g., verb bias effects, online
> adaptation to the speaker's knowledge, the sources of individual
> differences in online sentence comprehension, prosodic effects) can be
> adjusted to suit the interests of the seminar group.
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> Cynthia Fisher
> Psychology Department
> University of Illinois
> Champaign, IL 61820
> phone: 217-333-3545
> fax: 217-244-5876
> clfishe AT illinois.edu<mailto:clfishe AT illinois.edu>
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Cindy:
        Thanks.  I took careful note of the course
description.  I am going to recommend it to several
of my students.  Thanks.

                        - Steve