Workshops on Linguistic Convergence and Language Processing

语言的研究来自广泛的学科，其跨学科性质在双语研究中尤为强烈。 在国家科学基金会的资助下，将在宾夕法尼亚州立大学举办两个讲习班，每个讲习班都专门讨论英语和各种西班牙语的双语问题。语言趋同研讨会将重点讨论双语者，无论流利程度如何，在语言表现方面与单语者的细微差异。 这些差异提供了重要的证据，说明在双语者的头脑中，两种语言是如何管理的，甚至是如何融合的。语言处理研讨会将重点关注双语者头脑中语言的即时处理，特别关注围绕两种语言习得的问题，以及双语者神经语言障碍的后果。 这些研讨会将汇集来自一系列学科的专家，包括语言学，言语科学，心理学和神经心理学，讨论双语的误解，使西班牙裔青年在我们的教育和测试系统中处于不利地位。 误解是，虽然双语发展可能不同于单语发展，但它绝不是偏离或不足的。 在这些讲习班上讨论的研究，除其他外，旨在消除这种误解。

The study of language draws from a wide range of disciplines, and its interdisciplinary nature is particularly strong in the study of bilingualism. With funding from the National Science Foundation, two workshops to be held at The Pennsylvania State University, each devoted bilingualism in the context of English and a variety of Hispanic languages. The Workshop on Linguistic Convergence will focus on how bilingual speakers, regardless of fluency, show subtle differences from monolingual speakers in terms of their language performance. These differences provide important evidence on how two languages are managed, and possibly merged, in the mind of a bilingual. The Workshop on Language Processing will focus on the moment-by-moment processing of language in the mind of a bilingual, with particular attention to issues surrounding the acquisition of two languages, and the consequences of neurological language disorders for bilinguals. These workshops will bring together experts from a range of disciplines, including linguistics, speech science, psychology and neuropsychology, to discuss a misconception of bilingualism that places Hispanic youth at a disadvantage in our educational and testing systems. The misconception is that, while bilingual language development may be different from monolingual development, it is by no means deviant or deficient. The research to be discussed at these workshops is aimed at, among other things, dispelling this misconception.