Si tous les chemins mènent à Rome, ils ne se valent pas tous. Le problème d'accès lexical en production by Michael ZOCK (Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale, CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université) Tout le monde a déjà rencontré le problème suivant : on cherche un mot (ou le nom d'une personne) que l’on connaît, sans être en mesure […]

Entropy Reduction and Asian Language by John Hale (Cornell University, NY, USA) This talk presents a particular conceptualization of human language understanding as information processing. From this viewpoint, understanding a sentence word-by-word is a kind of incomplete perception problem in which comprehenders over time become more certain about the linguistic structure of the utterance they […]

Not all skilled readers have cracked the code: The role of lexical expertise in skilled reading by Sally Andrews (University of Sydney) Most theories and computational models of skilled reading have been built upon average data for unselected samples of university students, reflecting an implicit assumption that all skilled readers read in the same way. […]

Rudiments de langage chez les primates non-humains ? by Alban LEMASSON (Université de Rennes 1, Institut universitaire de France) La communication vocale des primates non-humains a longtemps été considérée comme déterminée uniquement génétiquement et émotionnellement, encourageant les théoriciens de l’origine du langage humain à en rechercher les précurseurs ailleurs, notamment dans les gestes des grands […]

Evelina FEDORENKO (MIT) What cognitive and neural mechanisms do we use to understand language? Since Broca's and Wernicke's seminal discoveries in the 19th century, a broad array of brain regions have been implicated in linguistic processing spanning frontal, temporal and parietal lobes, both hemispheres, and subcortical and cerebellar structures. However, characterizing the precise contribution of […]

The communicative basis of word order by Ted GIBSON (MIT) Some recent evidence suggests that subject-object-verb (SOV) may be the default word order for human language. For example, SOV is the preferred word order in a task where participants gesture event meanings (Goldin-Meadow et al. 2008). Critically, SOV gesture production occurs not only for speakers […]

Sound change and its relationship to variation in production and categorization in perception by Jonathan Harrington (Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany) In some models (Lindblom et al, 1995; Bybee, 2002), sound change is associated with the type of synchronic reduction that occurs in prosodically weak and semantically predictable contexts. […]

Cartographie des fonctions du Langage par stimulation électrique corticale by Jean-François Demonet