GALANA 6: Learning in Generative Grammar - Evaluation Measures 50 Years Later

语言习得是人类标志性的智力成就。语言习得的科学研究将第一语言和第二语言习得模式与发展语法表征的详细假设、获得这些表征的机制以及这些表征被第一语言和第二语言学习者实时使用的信息处理机制联系起来。第六届语言习得生成方法--北美会议将于2015年2月19日至21日举行，研究人员将齐聚一堂，研究第一语言习得和第二语言习得的方方面面。会议将举办一次特别会议，重点讨论学习者使用他们接触到的语言来构建特定语法的计算机制。这一特别会议将向更广泛的发展语言学社区介绍尖端的计算方法，并促进儿童语言发展的实证研究与语言学习的显式计算模型之间的新联系。会议的特别主题将鼓励这一领域的合作和进一步研究，扩大计算语言学家认为与模型习得相关的数据范围，并强调发展语言学家思考输入的作用和使用输入塑造语言习得的机制的重要性。会议的核心是由六位具有相关专业知识的知名研究人员应邀发表的一系列演讲。演讲者共同探讨了语言学习中的关键问题，包括句法、音系学、词法、双语和传统语言习得，并汇集了各种理论和方法。此外，大会鼓励广泛参与。六位受邀演讲者中有四位是女性，大会为研究生演讲者提供旅行奖励。受邀演讲者的论文将发表在《语言习得：发展语言学杂志》上。

Language acquisition stands as the signature intellectual achievement of the human species. The scientific study of language acquisition relates patterns of first and second language acquisition to detailed hypotheses about developing grammatical representations, the mechanisms by which these representations are acquired, and the information processing mechanisms through which these representations are engaged in real time language use by first and second language learners. The 6th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition -- North America conference, to be held February 19-21, 2015, will bring together researchers examining all aspects of first and second language acquisition. The conference will host a special session focusing on the computational mechanisms through which learners use the language they are exposed to to build a particular grammar. This special session will both introduce cutting edge computational methods to the broader developmental linguistics community and spur new links between empirical research on children's language development with explicit computational models of language learning. The special theme of the conference will encourage collaboration and further research in this area, extending the range of data that computational linguists see as relevant to modeling acquisition and highlighting the importance for developmental linguists of thinking about the role of input and the mechanisms that use it in shaping language acquisition.The core of the conference is a series of invited talks by six prominent researchers with relevant expertise. Together, the speakers address key issues in language learning spanning syntax, phonology, morphology, bilingualism and heritage language acquisition, and bring together a diverse range of theoretical and methodological approaches. In addition, the conference encourages broad participation. Four of the six invited speakers are women and the conference provides travel awards to graduate student presenters. The papers of the invited speakers will be published in Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics.