Conference: Language Acquisition and Language Processing: Finding New Connections

会议：语言习得和语言处理：寻找新的联系

• 批准号: 2017086
• 负责人: John Trueswell
• 金额: $ 4.89万
• 依托单位: University of Pennsylvania
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-07-15 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2017086&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Language; Acquisition; Processing; Finding

A central goal of cognitive science is to understand how the human brain acquires language and uses it to communicate with others. Basic research into understanding human language abilities also holds practical value in areas such as education (where difficulties with language pose a significant barrier for academic and professional success), engagement with social media (where new forms of communication are rapidly developing), and artificial intelligence (where machine learning and other algorithmic methods endow computers with increasingly sophisticated human-language communication). Traditionally, basic research on human language has taken a divide-and-conquer approach, with one part of the research community focused on how children learn languages and the other focused on how adults dynamically comprehend and produce language in real-time. However, exciting new research has bridged this otherwise artificial research divide. Neural and eye-tracking methods have revealed that infants deploy their incomplete understanding of language in real-time, almost as quickly as their adult expert counterparts. Likewise, adults have been found, under specific conditions, to be highly adaptive to language, learning new patterns of speech, new words, and even new syntax from brief exposure. This proposal highlights this new interdisciplinary work and resulting breakthroughs.The funding will support a special session entitled “Language Acquisition and Language Processing: Finding New Connections” to be held at the 34th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (March 4-6, 2021), hosted at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. The session will include presentations from six eminent researchers who bridge language learning and processing, a poster session dedicated to this theme, and travel awards for young student investigators. By bringing researchers studying language acquisition to the premier conference on adult language processing, the session will permit the cross-fertilization of ideas, spawning new important topics of study within human language.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

认知科学的一个核心目标是了解人脑如何获取语言并使用它与他人进行交流。理解人类语言能力的基础研究还具有教育领域（语言难度在学术和专业成功方面构成重大障碍），与社交媒体（新形式的沟通正在迅速发展）以及人工智能（机器学习和其他算法计算机具有越来越多的成熟人类语言交流的endow方法）。传统上，关于人类语言的基础研究采取了分歧和纠纷方法，研究界的一个部分着重于儿童学习语言，而另一种研究群体着重于成年人如何实时地理解和产生语言。但是，令人兴奋的新研究弥合了这种原本人工研究的鸿沟。神经和眼神追踪方法表明，婴儿实时部署对语言的不完全理解，几乎与成年专家的同行一样迅速。同样，在特定条件下，成年人高度适应语言，学习新的语音模式，新单词，甚至是短暂曝光的新语法。这项建议凸显了这项新的跨学科工作和由此产生的突破。这笔资金将支持一场题为“语言获取和语言处理：寻找新联系”的特别会议，将在第34届年度CUNY人类判刑加工会议（2021年3月4日至6日）举行，该会议在费城的宾夕法尼亚大学举办。该会议将包括来自六位杰出研究人员的演讲，他们桥接语言学习和处理，专门针对此主题的海报会议以及为年轻学生调查人员提供旅行奖。通过将研究语言习得的研究人员带入成人语言处理的总理会议，会议将允许交叉剥夺思想，在人类语言中产生新的重要研究主题。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的审查标准来通过评估来通过评估来支持的。