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

大量的工作研究了成年人的在线语言处理，但很少有人知道儿童如何协调语言和非语言信息，以达到句子的意义。 了解儿童如何在真实的时间里加工语言，对于建立全面的语言习得理论是必要的。 由美国国家科学基金会资助的儿童语言处理在线方法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的科学聚会，即实验发展心理语言学。 本次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，特别是那些有兴趣应用在线方法研究儿童语言处理的学者，将讨论当前和发展中的经验方法如何告知我们对儿童语言处理机制的理解。 讲习班将于2006年3月21日至22日在纽约市举行，特邀发言人和从征求审查的摘要中选出的发言人将出席。 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，讨论正在进行的研究。 根据研讨会的报告，计划的论文集将总结这一新兴领域的现状，并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，教育工作者和从业者的宝贵资源。活跃在实验发展心理语言学领域的学者在各种会议上发表了他们的研究成果，他们几乎没有机会在一个特定的环境中互动。 该研讨会为来自不同学科的研究人员以及来自美国和欧洲的研究人员提供了这样一个环境，以进行互动并可能产生统一的观察结果，并引发经验方法的新趋势。 讲习班的形式将鼓励研究生以及初级和高级研究人员参加，目标受众还将包括教育工作者和言语语言病理学家，这两个群体对儿童语言处理机制的研究具有直接的应用价值。

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.