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;编纂我们的法律;将我们积累的知识制度化;或向彼此表达我们感情的细微差别。 因此，我们必须更好地了解我们的大脑和思想如何实现这一不可或缺的技能。 但是，对人类如何使用语言的研究目前正在发生重大变化。 我们有前所未有的技术，使我们能够研究大脑，因为人们生产语言的生活。 我们已经开发了计算工具，从各种形式的生产语言的主要数据库中提取见解。 我们日益全球化的社会使不同语言的使用者密切接触，使使用多种语言比以往任何时候都更加规范。 在几十年来将所有人类的思想视为相同之后，我们重新研究了我们每个人的差异。 在美国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参加一个特别会议，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。 特别会议，题为语言生产的艺术状态，将是语言生产国际研讨会2016年会议的核心，将在拉霍亚，CA，在七月，2016.演讲者被邀请参加特别会议带来的观点和经验的多样性. Nina Dronkers，VA研究职业科学家兼VA北方加州卫生保健系统失语症和相关疾病中心主任，几十年来一直在进行关于大脑疾病如何影响语言产生的尖端工作。 斯特凡·特Gries，语言学教授，加州大学，圣巴巴拉是一个职业生涯中期的大型语言数据库的计算分析专家。 Gerrit Jan Kootstra是宾夕法尼亚州立大学的博士后学者，是一位早期的双语语言生产专家。 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，并开始全面努力了解语言产生的个体差异。 Kristof Strijkers，玛丽居里（IEF）在法国国家科学研究中心和认知心理学研究所（马赛）的研究员，是一个早期的研究者，他使用神经科学技术来更好地理解语言产生的大脑基础。 这些演讲将为全球跨学科科学家社区带来最新和最重要的见解，帮助我们更好地了解人类如何产生语言。

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.