心理语言学线上论坛||Holger Hopp/ Brian Dillon and Maayan Keshev 教授
讲座一
Speaker: Holger Hopp
Title: How permeable are native and non-native syntactic processing to crosslinguistic influence?
Time: 15:00 – 16:30, Wed, 9 June 2021
(Beijing, Hong Kong time)
Venue: https://cuhk.zoom.us/j/779556638
https://cuhk.zoom.cn/j/779556638
About the speaker
Holger Hopp is Professor of English Linguistics at the Technische Universität Braunschweig (Germany). In his research, he investigates child and adult L2/3 acquisition and processing as well as heritage language acquisition and attrition. He uses several psycholinguistic methods to determine the directionality, scope and degree of cross-linguistic influence in bi- and multilingual speakers of different ages. He is an Executive Editor of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism and has published widely on various topics related to multilingualism.
How permeable are native and non-native syntactic processing to crosslinguistic influence?
Holger Hopp
English and American Studies, University of Braunschweig (Germany)
Recent approaches to bilingual language processing argue that a bilingual's languages are fundamentally permeable, with cross-linguistic influence (CLI) affecting both the L2 and the L1 (e.g. Birdsong, 2018; Kroll et al., 2015). In this talk, I explore the boundary conditions of crosslanguage permeability in syntactic processing among late bilinguals, testing CLI both from the first language (L1) to the second language (L2) and from the L2 to the L1. I will discuss findings from three experiments with four groups of German-English and English-German bilinguals, showing that order of acquisition, but not usage and immersion in the second language, constrains CLI in the processing of structurally ambiguous wh-questions in German. Whereas CLI from the L1 persistently affected L2 sentence processing even among near-native and immersed L2 users, L1 processing was resilient against influence from the L2, even after long-term L2 immersion. The study highlights how systematic and bidirectional investigations of CLI contribute towards more nuanced models of the bilingual mind.
Virtual Psycholinguistics Forum:
(https://cuhklpl.github.io/forum.html)
讲座二
Speaker: Brian Dillon and Maayan Keshev
Title: Encoding and accessing syntactic structure in memory: Insights from verbal agreement
Time: 12:00 – 13:30, Wed, 16th June, 2021
(Beijing, Hong Kong time)
Venue: https://cuhk.zoom.us/j/779556638
https://cuhk.zoom.cn/j/779556638
About the speaker
Brian Dillon is an Associate Professor in Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His area of specialization is psycholinguistics. His work focuses on the real-time computation of syntactic dependencies, focusing on the processing of agreement and anaphoric dependencies in English, Mandarin, and other languages.
Maayan Keshev is a Fulbright post-doctoral scholar at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her area of specialization is psycholinguistics. She has published extensively on Hebrew sentence processing, addressing a range of topics such as filler-gap processing, agreement attraction, grammatical islands, resumptive pronouns, and noisy-channel processing.
Encoding and accessing syntactic structure in memory: Insights from verbal agreement
Brian Dillon and Maayan Keshev
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Grammatical illusions" occur when speakers and listeners seem unable to faithfully apply their grammatical knowledge during the course of analyzing or producing language (Phillips, Wagers, and Lau, 2011). The distribution of grammatical illusions across constructions and across languages has led to insights into the nature of the cognitive mechanisms that speakers use during the course of routine language comprehension and production. In this talk, we will focus on one grammatical illusion: agreement attraction, the tendency for speakers to express verb agreement with nouns other than the intended agreement target (e.g. 'The key to the cabinets are rusty'; Bock & Miller, 1991). This phenomenon has proven to be a useful test case to better understand how morpho-syntactic features are bound to syntactic structure during real-time language production and comprehension, revealing the limits of how speakers can encode and maintain syntactic structure in working memory.
In this talk, we will overview a range of evidence that suggests that agreement attraction likely reflects the contribution of multiple distinct underlying mechanisms, including errors in encoding syntactic structure in a noise-prone memory architecture and errors in retrieval of syntactic encodings during incremental processing. We will also overview how these basic mechanisms of encoding and retrieval interference are shaped by cross-linguistic grammatical differences, and how they impact different types of grammatical dependencies such as reflexive agreement.
Virtual Psycholinguistics Forum:
(https://cuhklpl.github.io/forum.html)
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