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 […]