[lingtalks] Linguistics Colloquium Monday, May 22nd

[Katie McGee]

Please note location change!!!


Our guest speaker for the colloquium on Monday, May 22nd will be

LouAnn Gerken, University of Arizona
"What infant learning in the laboratory can tell us about the nature of linguistic categories"


Please note change of location!!!

Time: 2-3:30
Date: Monday, May 22nd
Location: 003 CSB

Arrangements for dinner with the speaker will be made at the colloquium, so keep your evening free as well!

Title and abstract:

What infant learning in the laboratory can tell us about the nature of linguistic categories


The idea that humans are able to entertain discrete phonological and syntactic categories is the cornerstone of linguistics.  But where do these categories come from? Are infants born expecting only certain types of categories? Can we see evidence of linguistic categories in prelinguistic infants, and if we can, how do these categories map onto the ones assumed by linguistic theories? In my talk, I will provide some preliminary answers to these questions by presenting work exploring phonetic, prosodic, and syntactic category learning by infants in the laboratory. The data suggest that while infants are superb category detectors, their categories are not always a one-to-one match with those proposed by linguistic theories.

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