Language Science Center
Photo gallery from the Winter Storm 2015 two-week language science workshop.
Modeling children's acquisition of speech acts and clause types
This project investigates how children come to associate clause types with their canonical function, and in particular, interrogatives to questions. We examined speech acts and clause types in speech to children. I will first report some of the results from our corpus study, and then discuss our plans to model the learning process computationally, and how we are going to use Robustly-optimized BERT approach (RoBERTa) to assist the annotation process.
The role of early experiences on the neurobiology of language and literacy development
How do we represent event structure? Insights from behavioral and neural evidence
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