Cesko Voeten Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania Changes in the Philadelphia accent from the perspective of natural selection Next to being used as a system for communication, language additionally conveys a large amount of social information. In the literature on language change, there is agreement that this social function of language plays […]
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Albert Kim Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Lab University of Colorado Real time human language comprehension: Predictive processing in an unpredictable world In order to comprehend human language in real time, readers and listeners make predictions about the upcoming linguistic input. Predictions enable comprehenders to prepare in advance for rapidly unfolding, pervasively ambiguous linguistic […]
We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Sarah Robins Department of Philosophy Purdue University The Engram Renaissance Memory traces have a long history. For Plato, they were birds in aviaries; for William James, they were furniture in the mind’s rooms. They’ve also been phonographic records, […]