Language Science Center
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 Maryland Language Science Center has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to support a collaborative project across researchers from UMD, Gallaudet, and Howard Universities and the new Planet Word museum in Washington, DC.
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
The LSC completed a self study in 2019 to evaluate progress since the center's founding in 2013.
Colorless green screens zoom enthusiastically: Engaging children in virtual outreach
Erika Exton (HESP), Kathleen Oppenheimer (HESP), Lauren Salig (NACS), and Craig Thorburn (LING)
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