The State of the Art in Language Production: A Special Session of the 2016 International Workshop on Language Production

很少有技能(如果有的话)比通过语言表达思想的能力更重要。没有它，我们将无法记录我们的历史；无法将我们的法律编纂成法典；无法将我们积累的知识制度化；也无法表达我们彼此感情的细微差别。因此，我们必须更好地理解我们的大脑和头脑是如何使这项不可或缺的技能成为可能的。但是，对人类如何使用语言的研究目前正在发生重大转变。我们拥有史无前例的技术，使我们能够在人们产生语言的过程中研究大脑。我们开发了计算工具，从各种形式的已产生语言的主要数据库中提取见解。我们日益全球化的社会让说不同语言的人密切接触，使多种语言比以往任何时候都更成为常态。在几十年来平等对待所有人类思想之后，我们重新研究了我们每个人的不同之处。在国家科学基金会的资助下，来自世界各地的专家将聚集在一起举行一次特别会议，向研究语言产生的科学家社区通报我们领域的这些重大发展。2016年7月将在加利福尼亚州拉霍亚举行的2016年国际语言产出研讨会的中心议题是这场名为《语言生产的现状》的特别会议。演讲者们被邀请参加这次特别会议，带来不同的观点和经验。退伍军人事务部研究职业科学家、退伍军人事务部失语症和相关疾病中心主任Nina Dronkers几十年来一直在研究大脑障碍如何影响语言生成的前沿工作。斯特凡·Th。Gries是加州大学圣巴巴拉分校的语言学教授，是一名职业生涯中期的大型语言数据库计算分析专家。宾夕法尼亚州立大学博士后学者GerritJan Kootstra是一位在双语产生方面具有专长的早期研究员。马克斯·普朗克心理语言学研究所所长Antje Meyer是世界上语言产生行为研究的领军人物之一，他已经开始了一项全面的努力，以了解语言产生的个体差异。法国国家科学研究中心和马赛心理学认知实验室的玛丽·居里(Marie Curie，IEF)研究员克里斯托夫·斯特里克斯(Kristof Strijkers)是一名早期研究员，他使用神经科学技术更好地理解语言产生的大脑基础。总之，这些演讲将为世界范围内的跨学科科学家社区带来最新和最重要的见解，他们正在帮助我们更好地理解人类是如何产生语言的。

Few skills (if any) are more important than the ability to express our thoughts through language. Without it, we would be unable to record our history; to codify our laws; to institutionalize our accumulated knowledge; or to profess the nuances of our feelings to each other. As such, it is essential that we better understand how our brains and minds enable this indispensable skill. But, the study of how humans do language is currently undergoing major shifts. We have unprecedented technology that allows us to investigate the brain as people produce language live. We have developed computational tools to extract insights from major databases of produced language of all forms. Our increasingly global society places speakers of different languages into close contact, making multilingualism more the norm than ever before. And after decades of treating all human minds as the same, we have renewed the study of how each of us differ. With funding from the National Science Foundation, experts from around the world will be brought together for a special session that will inform the community of scientists who study language production on these major developments in our field. The special session, titled The State of the Art in Language Production, will be the centerpiece of the 2016 meeting of the International Workshop on Language Production, to be held in La Jolla, CA, in July, 2016.The speakers were invited to the special session to bring a diversity of perspectives and experience. Nina Dronkers, VA Research Career Scientist and Director, Center for Aphasia and Related Disorders at the VA Northern California Health Care System has for decades been conducting cutting edge work on how brain disorders affect language production. Stefan Th. Gries, Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara is a mid-career expert on the computational analysis of large-scale language databases. Gerrit Jan Kootstra, Postdoctoral Scholar, Pennsylvania State University is an early investigator with expertise in bilingual language production. Antje Meyer, Director, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, is one of the world's leading figures on the behavioral study of language production, and has begun a comprehensive effort to understand individual differences in language production. And Kristof Strijkers, Marie Curie (IEF) fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France) and the Laboratoire de Psychology Cognitive (Marseille) is an early investigator who uses neuroscience techniques to better understand the brain basis of language production. Together, these presentations will bring the latest and most important insights to a worldwide interdisciplinary community of scientists who are helping us to better understand how human beings produce language.