Alethia Cui Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania Minimal Pairs and the Emergence of Phonological Categories Phonological categories form a system of contrast in the lexicon. In phonological analysis, minimal pairs are used to diagnose whether two speech sounds are phonemes. Although statistical learning has been popular as an explanation for phonological acquisition, […]
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Flavia Vitale Department of Neurology University of Pennsylvania When nano meets neuro: high-resolution interfaces for multimodal mapping neural circuit dynamics Unraveling neural processes underlying cognition, sensation, volitional movement, neurological and neuromuscular diseases requires decoding the activity of millions of neurons at millisecond resolution, over months to years and without inducing foreign-body reactions. These […]
Peter Penzes Director, Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment Ruth and Evelyn Dunbar Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Northwestern University Title forthcoming
Judit Gervain Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception CNRS & Université Paris Descartes Early auditory and speech perception lays the foundations of language development Newborns and young infants have sophisticated auditory abilities. Some of these are broad and universal, others already reflect prenatal experience with the native language. The talk will present a series […]
Ailís Cournane Child Language Lab NYU Developmental possibilities: modal variables in acquisition and change The language development process is rich ground for theorization about language change. Each child must learn their individual grammar(s) via the indirect process of analyzing the output of others’ grammars (the input; e.g., Lightfoot, 1979), and the process necessarily […]