Travel Support for ESF Funded Workshop "Multilingualism from an Interdisciplinary Perspective"

美国国家科学基金会正在支持四名美国研究人员参加由欧洲科学基金会协调的语言产生研讨会。 讲习班的目的是促进对双语和多语，包括口语和手语的跨学科研究。该研讨会汇集了行为，神经科学和计算方法，为我们对语言和认知的理解及其与多语言者大脑活动的关系的突破提供了背景，这些语言和认知超出了各个学科的范围。该研讨会旨在促进我们对以下问题的理解：1）个人如何学习，产生和理解两种，三种甚至更多种语言; 2）双语者，特别是多语者学习和使用语言的方式是否与单语者学习和使用母语的方式相似或不同; 3）处理一种语言的大脑网络是否足以支持处理两种或更多种语言。

The National Science Foundation is supporting four US-based researchers to participate in a workshop on language production that is being coordinated by the European Science Foundation. The objective of the workshop is to facilitate the interdisciplinary investigation of bilingualism and multilingualism, including spoken languages as well as signed languages. The workshop brings together behavioral, neuroscientific and computational approaches to provide the context for breakthroughs in our understanding of language and cognition and their relation to brain activity in multilinguals that are beyond the reach of the individual disciplines. The workshop aims to advance our understanding of: 1) How individuals can learn, produce and understand two, three or even more languages; 2) whether bilinguals, and in particular multilinguals learn and use their languages in ways that are similar or different to the ways in which monolinguals learn and use their native language; and 3) whether the brain networks engaged in processing one language are sufficient to support the processing of two and more languages.