Language Acquisition
Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/98806584197?pwd=SXBWOHE1cU9adFFKUmN2UVlwUEJXdz09
Understanding Automaticity in Language
How much rhythm in language is in short-time acoustics?
Dan Goodhue, Jeff Lidz, Yu’an Yang and Valentine Hacquard will present a project they have been developing on children's acquisition of clause types and speech acts, reporting some preliminary results of work they've done. Here's an overview of the topic.
**Please note that the time differs from the regular meeting time**
How children are and aren’t like adults when it comes to interpreting pronouns: A developmental modeling investigation
Resolved: It is “alarming for both scientific and ethical reasons” to encourage talking with young children in non-Western societies. Really??
Does Talking to Children Matter? A New Look at Past Work
Talk and discussion will last one hour. At 3:30 we will have a brief Q&A with Ewan about his career path since completing his PhD at UMD.
Modelling early language acquisition from raw speech data