This talk revisits the concept of foreigner talk register as a conventional variety of simplified language use which has been introduced by Ferguson (1981) by looking at the interactions between signers from different countries who do not know a shared sign language. The term of foreigner talk register usually is regarded by native interlocutors as […]

This talk presents an overview of the development of a model of phonotactic grammar in which well-formedness of consonant clusters is measured by NAD (Dziubalska-Kołaczyk 2014, 2019). NAD stands for a Net Auditory Distance obtaining between segments in a cluster. The auditory distance is a net reflection of the differences between segments in terms of […]

Toda situación de comunicación se define a partir de su finalidad en relación con la identidad de los sujetos que participan en el acto comunicativo. Por lo tanto, el enfoque que adoptamos para estudiar los géneros discursivos, tiene como punto de partida los parámetros del contexto situacional que determinan el modo de producción del texto […]

Em um mundo globalizado, talvez pareça não fazer muito sentido refletir sobre o conhecimento que temos produzido sobre a linguagem e as línguas do ponto de vista da sua geopolítica, sobretudo quando boa parte da Linguística do séc. XX se desenvolveu como uma ciência abstrata, formal e autônoma. Entretanto, em tempos de alta polarização como […]

In my talk I will present a general cognitive architecture of spoken language processing. This is followed by an account of how this cognitive architecture is instantiated in the human brain. Both the spatial aspects of the networks for language are discussed, as well as the temporal dynamics and the underlying neurophysiology. A distinction is […]

Linguists are often talking about evolution these days, but language structures are rarely explained by evolutionary adaptation. But in this talk, I claim that a wide range of structures (e.g. phoneme inventories, case-marking patterns, word order patterns, causative constructions, subordinate-clause constructions) can be explained as adapted to their “environments”, i.e. the needs of language users. […]

Esta mesa, coorganizada por ABRALIN y SAEL, se propone mostrar cómo la investigación experimental aporta evidencia sustancial para comprender los procesos y las representaciones que subyacen a los distintos dominios y habilidades lingüísticos así como la actividad cerebral que los sustenta. En su presentación, Adolfo García aborda la organización neural del procesamiento semántico y propone […]

In this talk, I will do two things. First, I will discuss the space that rhetorical relations occupy in language, and the issue of consensus on a common taxonomy of relations. Second, I will review the issue of signals for coherence relations and describe our corpus annotation of a broad set of signals. First, in […]

Language development requires, to begin with, that the infant gain the ability to understand and produce identifiable word forms. This talk will focus on the first two years of life, with particular emphasis on the role of vocal practice, not only in production but also in word-recognition and segmentation: Self-action has been found to be […]