GALANA Conference 2012: Psycholinguistic and Neurolinguistic Approaches to Language Development

这笔赠款为2012年北美(Galana)会议提供支持，会议的主题是语言发展的心理语言学和神经语言学方法。会议将于2012年10月11日至13日在堪萨斯州劳伦斯市的堪萨斯大学举行。这次会议将是Galana的第五次会议，Galana是一个国际会议，已经成为受语言学理论启发的语言发展研究的领先论坛。生成框架中的语言习得研究解决了几个核心问题，即语言知识的心理表征，这些知识随着时间的推移是如何产生的，以及这些知识在多大程度上是专门的或独立于其他认知领域的。近年来，心理语言学和神经语言学技术为研究语言知识在实时加工中的招募提供了新的方法，并已成功地用于儿童和成人学习者群体。本次会议的目标是考虑这些新方法在第一语言习得和第二语言习得领域中的理论构建和测试方面的应用。这次会议将是第一次将第一语言习得、第二语言习得和语言障碍放在一起讨论。由于在这些子领域的核心理论问题上存在重叠，鼓励来自这些不同学科的研究人员进行讨论是有利的。这次会议的成果将通过两个渠道广泛传播：大会议事录和专门讨论这一专题的期刊特刊。会议通过在几个特邀演讲中突出初级学者的工作来鼓励广泛参与。会议还通过向研究生和博士后提供基于功绩的旅行奖励来鼓励初级研究人员的参与。

This grant provides support for the 2012 Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition-North America (GALANA) conference, with a special theme on Psycholinguistic and Neurolinguistic Approaches to Language Development. The conference will be held at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas on October 11-13, 2012. This conference will be the fifth meeting of GALANA, an international conference which has emerged as a leading forum for research in language development that is informed by linguistic theory. Language acquisition research in the generative framework addresses several core questions regarding the mental representation of linguistic knowledge, the ways in which that knowledge emerges over time, and the degree to which that knowledge is specialized or independent of other cognitive domains. In recent years, psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic techniques have provided new ways to investigate the recruitment of linguistic knowledge in real time processing, and have successfully been utilized with both child and adult learner populations. The goal of this session is to consider the application of these new approaches for theory building and testing in the domains of first and second language acquisition. This session will be the first of its kind to consider first language acquisition, second language acquisition, and language disorders under the same umbrella. As there is overlap with respect to the core theoretical questions at the heart of these sub-fields, it is advantageous to encourage discussion among researchers from these different disciplines.The findings of this conference will be broadly disseminated in two outlets: a proceedings volume for the general conference and a special issue of a journal that will be dedicated to the special theme. The conference encourages broad participation by highlighting the work of junior scholars in several invited presentations. The conference also encourages participation from junior researchers by offering merit-based travel awards to graduate students and post-docs.