・Lecturer: NAKAMURA, Chie
・Lecturer Info: https://w-rdb.waseda.jp/html/100001220_ja.html
・Title: Prediction and adaptation in first and second language processing: Eye-tracking and computational modeling
・Day and Time: May 16, 2024 5:30pm-
- Abstract:
In this presentation, I will explore how language is represented and used in the mind, focusing on what types of information guide online interpretation and how expectations in language comprehension are generated. Given the extent to which indeterminacy pervades communication, it would be easy to imagine that language processing is extremely taxing, cognitively demanding, and prone to constant error and missteps. Yet, by and large, the language processing system manages such indeterminacy with relative ease. The language processor appears to cope with such indeterminacy by strategically selecting partial representations to incrementally incorporate into an unfolding linguistic representation, relying on a host of syntactic constraints, contextual cues, and presumptive discourse biases to further develop partial analyses into more concrete ones, when required.
In explaining how humans exploit various types of linguistic information to generate incremental representations in their real-time sentence comprehension, I will cover two primary areas of my investigation:
- Anticipatory processing during online structural analysis in head-initial and head-final languages
- Qualitative differences between L1 (first language) and L2 (second language) processing
