Language Acquisition
All are cordially invited to a reception for Janet Werker at the Language Science Center. (Her talk is at 10:15am in 1103 Bioscience Research Building.)
Lunch talk double-header!
Mina Hirzel (LING)
Young children’s elicited productions of modal words: children differentiate modal “flavors” and forces
Elizabeth Johnson (Psychology, University of Toronto)
She says tah-may-to but he says tah-mah-to: how children cope with accent variation
Title: Socioeconomic disparities in early language development: Predictors, consequences, and considerations for intervention
Lunch begins at 12:00, Intro/talk begins at 12:15.
** Note non-standard location! **
Title: Life at the edge of the lexicon: Productive knowledge and direct experience in language processing and acquisition
Title: The role of prenatal experience in early speech processing and language acquisition
Title: Infants' understanding of speech as a tool
Abstract: Infants seem to understand that others have internal states that underlie observable behaviour. What is their understanding about how these internal states can be updated? Specifically, do infants understand that speech can serve as a tool to update the internal states of others? I'll describe data suggesting they do, and that they also understand some constraints on the updating of internal states.
12:20pm - lunch served
12:45pm - talk
1:30pm - Q&A
Title: Bilingual Children’s Language and Literacy Development: Home and Classroom Factors
Abstract: TBD
Title: Precursors of logical reasoning in preverbal infants
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