[lingtalks] Linguistics Colloquium: LouAnn Gerken

[Katie McGee]

-Reminder-

LouAnn Gerken (Psychology, University of Arizona) will be speaking at 2pm on Monday, May 22nd.

Please note the change from our typical location.

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

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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