Workshop on On-Line Methods in Children's Language Processing

儿童语言处理在线方法研讨会

• 批准号: 0518438
• 负责人: Irina Sekerina
• 金额: $ 1.53万
• 依托单位: CUNY College of Staten Island
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-15 至 2006-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0518438&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Line; Methods; Children; Language

A substantial body of work examines on-line language processing in adults, yet very little is known about how children coordinate linguistic and non-linguistic information to arrive at sentence meaning. Understanding how children process language, in real time, is necessary for building comprehensive theories about language acquisition. The workshop on on-line methods in children's language processing funded by this NSF award will be the first scientific gathering specifically dedicated to a new field of research that explores such issues, experimental developmental psycholinguistics. This workshop provides a forum in which scholars from different areas of expertise (psycholinguistics, language acquisition, and cognitive neuroscience), particularly those interested in applying on-line methods to study children's language processing, will discuss how current and developing empirical approaches can inform our understanding of language processing mechanisms in children. The workshop will take place in New York City, March 21-22, 2006, and will feature invited speakers and speakers selected from abstracts solicited for review. A poster session will provide graduate students and junior researchers an informal setting in which to discuss ongoing research. A planned volume of papers based on the workshop's presentations will summarize the current state of this emerging field and is sure to become a valuable resource for students, researchers, educators and practitioners interested in language acquisition and language processing in children.Scholars active in the area of experimental developmental psycholinguistics have presented their findings at various conferences, and have had little chance to interact in one particular setting. This workshop provides such a setting for researchers from different disciplines, and from the United States as well as Europe, to interact and potentially generate unifying observations as well as spark new trends in empirical approaches. The format of the workshop will encourage participation from graduate students as well as junior and senior researchers, and the target audience will also include educators and speech language pathologists, two groups for whom research on children's language processing mechanisms has direct applications.

大量的研究工作考察了成人的在线语言处理，但对儿童如何协调语言和非语言信息以获得句子意义的了解很少。理解儿童如何实时处理语言，对于建立全面的语言习得理论是必要的。由NSF奖资助的关于儿童语言处理在线方法的研讨会将是第一次专门致力于探索此类问题的新研究领域--实验发展心理语言学--的科学会议。这个研讨会提供了一个论坛，来自不同专业领域(心理语言学、语言习得和认知神经科学)的学者，特别是那些对应用在线方法研究儿童语言加工感兴趣的学者，将讨论当前和正在发展的经验方法如何有助于我们对儿童语言加工机制的理解。研讨会将于2006年3月21日至22日在纽约市举行，将邀请演讲者和演讲者从征求意见的摘要中挑选出来。海报会议将为研究生和初级研究人员提供一个非正式的环境，在其中讨论正在进行的研究。根据研讨会的报告计划的论文数量将总结这一新兴领域的现状，肯定会成为对儿童语言习得和语言处理感兴趣的学生、研究人员、教育工作者和实践者的宝贵资源。活跃在实验发展心理语言学领域的学者在各种会议上展示了他们的发现，但很少有机会在一个特定的环境中互动。这次研讨会为来自不同学科以及来自美国和欧洲的研究人员提供了这样一个环境，让他们相互交流，有可能产生统一的观察结果，并在经验方法方面引发新的趋势。研讨会的形式将鼓励研究生以及初级和高级研究人员的参与，目标受众还将包括教育工作者和言语语言病理学家，这两个群体直接适用于儿童语言处理机制的研究。