Anything but boring: How looking at tasks can tell us more about language development.

Christina Bergmann (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) Le séminaire se tiendra en visioconférence via le lien : https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/j/2515421853?pwd=elpEeVhxRTV5b01rZGUxaWY4Qy9ZQT09 Abstract: Work that focuses on how we measure children's knowledge may seem a hurdle towards discovery. In this talk, I will argue that inspecting the methods we use can tell us a great deal about the underlying […]

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CIRM - Luminy 163 avenuede Luminy, Case 916, Marseille, France

Language development as a joint process: Why the simultaneous learning of Form, Content, and Use is more a help than a hindrance

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Abdellah Fourta (Aix-Marseille University & INRIA Paris) Abstract: To acquire language, children need to learn form (e.g., phonology), content (e.g., word meaning), and use (e.g., finding the right words to convey a communicative intent). The scientific study of language development has traditionally studied these dimensions separately. Indeed, one could imagine that children first acquire the […]

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Kevin El Haddad  is a researcher in affective computing and Human-Agent interaction at the University of Mons. Abstract: Smiles and laughs (S&L) are among the most frequent and informative non-verbal expressions used in our daily interactions. Their incorporation into machine's communication skills is therefore a must in order to improve human-agent interaction (HAI) applications quality […]

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Production practice is more effective than comprehension for second language learning Elise Hopman (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Abstract: Whereas most classroom-based language instruction traditionally emphasizes comprehension-based learning, memory research suggests that language production activities may provide a stronger learning experience than comprehension practice, due to the meaningfully different task demands involved in producing versus comprehending language. […]

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BabyBERTa: Learning More Grammar With Small-Scale Child-Directed Language Philip Huebner (University of Illinos, Urbana-Champaign) Abstract: Transformer-based language models have taken the NLP world by storm. However, their potential for addressing important questions in language acquisition research has been largely ignored. In this work, we examined the grammatical knowledge of RoBERTa (Liu et al., 2019) when […]

CoCoDev

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TBA Okko Räsänen (Tampere University)  

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Jonathan Ginzburg (Université de Paris)  

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Asli Ozyurek (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior)

Seminar on “speech production and perception”

Salle de conférences 5 avenue Pasteur, Aix-en-Provence, France

Prof. F. Guenther and REaDY team, LPL (5-6 May) Thursday, May 5th 2022 Discussion with Prof. F. Guenther around the following presentations 14h-14h40 : Noël Nguyen & Kristof Strijkers : Phonetic and semantic convergence in speech communication 14h40-15h10 : Serge Pinto: Studying speech motor control from its impairment: the cases of hypo- and hyperkinetic dysarthrias 15h10-15h30 […]