心理语言学线上论坛 | 11月17日15:00 Karl David Neergaard 博士讲座

Speaker: Karl David Neergaard

Title: The architecture of the Mandarin phonological mental lexicon

Time: 15:00 – 16:30 pm, 17 November 2021 

           (Beijing, Hong Kong time)

Venue: https://cuhk.zoom.us/j/779556638

            https://cuhk.zoom.cn/j/779556638

About the speaker 

Karl is currently a Sara Borrell Postdoctoral Fellow at the Valdecilla Biomedical Innovation and Research Institute in Santander, Spain. He was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Macau, Department of English, prior to postdoctoral work at Aix-Marseille University at the Laboratoire Parole et Langage. He graduated from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2018 with a PhD in Linguistics. His research combines computational methods with psycholinguistic experimentation to address questions concerning the complexity of the mental lexicon.  

His current research interests incorporate language processing tasks with facial and bodily movement with the purpose of understanding the underlying socio-emotive nature of the lexicon and their implications to neuropsychological disorders, such as schizophrenia, and healthy and disordered development. 

The architecture of the Mandarin phonological mental lexicon 

Karl David Neergaard 

Valdecilla Biomedical Innovation and Research Institute,  

Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital 

In this talk, I review the results of experiments that investigated the structural aspects of the Mandarin phonological mental lexicon and how they specifically relate to the question of syllable segmentation. This body of work was done under the premise that the network of coactivated form-similar items during perception and production mirror the schematic aspects of units within the metrical/representational frame of speech production and perception models. Lexical access viewed under this lens entails a lexicon of multiple concurrent networks that when activated due to the demands of a specific task, establishes those connections within the lexicon best fit for the goals of the task. From this perspective, segmentation of phonological information does not follow a production/perception dichotomy as currently implied in the literature using priming paradigms and picture-word matching tasks. Instead, activation patterns spread across words over time to form a schematic representation based on their shared characteristics.

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