{"id":2967,"date":"2015-08-17T19:06:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T17:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xprag.de\/?page_id=2967"},"modified":"2018-09-05T19:16:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T17:16:19","slug":"workshop-on-the-role-of-pragmatic-factors-in-child-language-processing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.xprag.de\/?page_id=2967","title":{"rendered":"Workshop on &#8220;The role of pragmatic factors in child language processing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xprag.de\/?page_id=2973\" title=\"FoTeRo\">&larr; back to FoTeRo events<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.xprag.de\/?page_id=2974\" title=\"CoGCI\">&larr; back to CoGCI events<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Organizers:<\/strong><br \/>\nPia Knoeferle (Bielefeld, chair), Barbara H\u00f6hle (Potsdam), Julia Kr\u00f6ger (Bielefeld), Stavros Skopeteas (Bielefeld), Isabell Wartenburger (Potsdam)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time and Venue:<\/strong><br \/>\n19-20 May 2016, Humboldt-University Berlin, Dorotheenstr. 24, Dekanatsraum, (3.246)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xprag.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/program_pragmaticfactors.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Program<\/a><br \/>\n<!--\n<a href=\"http:\/\/amor.cms.hu-berlin.de\/~knoeferp\/Homepage__Psycholinguistics\/xPrag_Workshop.html\" target=\"_blank\">Link to workshop page at Humboldt University<\/a>\n--><br \/>\n<strong>Invited Speakers:<\/strong><br \/>\nShanley Allen (University of Kaiserslautern, Michael C. Frank (Stanford), Jesse Snedeker (Harvard University),  Kriszta Szendr\u00f6i (UCL, UK)<\/p>\n<p><!--\n<strong>Registration<\/strong>\nPlease register via email to childlang2016@gmail.com!<br \/>\nThere is no registration fee!<br \/>\n\n<font color=\"red\">Fees must be paid in cash on arrival at the conference venue. If you have registered as a student, please don't forget to bring proof of your status.<\/font>\n\n<strong>Deadline for submissions: <\/strong>Extended to January 24th, 2016! <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistlist.org\/confservices\/EasyAbs\/customabssub.cfm?Emeetingid=6302JA445856564E40A050441\" target=\"_blank\">Abstracts can be submitted here!<\/a>\nAbstract details: The abstract text should fit on a single A4-page, 12pt font size, Times New Roman font\n\n<strong>Date of notification:<\/strong> mid February\n\n<strong>Call:<\/strong>\nWe welcome submissions of abstracts for oral or poster presentations on topics related to pragmatic factors in child language processing. Successful submissions will address theoretically important issues using methods such as behavioral experimentation, electrophysiology, and computational modeling. \nThis workshop brings together scientists investigating the role of pragmatic factors in child language processing, with a focus on children\u2019s emerging language and pragmatic abilities and on cross-linguistic variation. Recent years have seen a growing interest in how children make use of available contextual cues for enriching their utterance interpretation. For some comprehension processes (e.g., the incremental referential interpretation of color adjectives), even very young toddlers around 36 months of age seem to make rapid use of both linguistic and extra-linguistic information and subtle language-specific prosodic preferences are present as early as the first half year of infants\u2019 lives. Children can moreover recruit both language and visual cues for word learning and pragmatic aspects of the learning process have been successfully modeled probabilistically.\nYet, there is controversy about the kinds of cues that 4-5-year-olds can rapidly use during language comprehension. Five-year-olds need additional time to effectively use some (prosodic) cues during comprehension and they are not yet able to rapidly draw complex inferences such as those necessary for computing scalar implicature although there is some modulation by other factors of their ability to draw pragmatic inferences. The picture is further complicated by cross-linguistic variation in the role of pragmatic inferences for language processing. Accommodating this sort of variation in a principle-based manner is non-trivial yet an important endeavor in developing accounts of situated language processing across the lifespan.\n--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Aim of the workshop:<\/strong><br \/>\nRecent years have seen a growing interest in how children make use of available contextual cues for enriching their utterance interpretation. For some comprehension processes (e.g., the incremental referential interpretation of color adjectives), even very young toddlers around 36 months of age seem to make rapid use of both linguistic and extra-\u00adlinguistic information (Fernald, Thorpe &#038; Marchman, 2010), and subtle language-\u00adspecific prosodic preferences are present as early as the first half year of infants\u2019 lives (H\u00f6hle, Bijeljac-Babic, Herold, Weissenborn &#038; Nazzi, 2009). Children can moreover recruit both language and visual cues for word learning (Smith &#038; Yu, 2008) and pragmatic aspects of the learning process have been successfully modeled probabilistically (Frank, Goodman &#038; Tenenbaum, 2009; Frank &#038; Goodman, 2014). Yet, there is controversy about the kinds of cues that 4-5\u2010year-\u00adolds can rapidly use during language comprehension (Trueswell, Sekerina, Hill &#038; Logrip, 1999; Zhang &#038; Knoeferle, 2012). Five-\u00adyear-\u00adolds need additional time to effectively use some (prosodic) cues during comprehension (Ito, Jincho, Minai, Yamane &#038; Mazuka, 2012), and they are not yet able to rapidly draw complex inferences such as those necessary for computing scalar implicature (Huang &#038; Snedeker, 2009) although there is some modulation by other factors of their ability to draw pragmatic inferences (Yoon, Wu &#038; Frank, 2015). The picture is further complicated by cross-\u00adlinguistic variation in the role of pragmatic inferences for language processing. Accommodating this sort of variation in a principle-\u00adbased manner is non-\u00adtrivial yet an important endeavor in developing accounts of situated language processing across the lifespan. This workshop brings together scientists investigating the role of pragmatic factors in child language processing, with a focus on children\u2019s emerging language and pragmatic abilities and on cross-linguistic variation. Keynote talks by the invited speakers will set the stage for discussion about how to best characterize the principles underlying pragmatic processes at developmental stages. <\/p>\n<p><!--\nReferences: Fernald, A., Thorpe, K., & Marchman, V. A. (2010). Blue car, red car: Developing efficiency in online interpretation of adjective-noun phrases. Cognitive Psychology, 60(3), 190\u2013217. http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cogpsych.2009.12.002 Frank, M. C., & Goodman, N. D. (2014). Inferring word meanings by assuming that speakers are informative. Cognitive Psychology, 75, 80\u201396. http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cogpsych.2014.08.002 Frank, M. C., Goodman, N. D., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2009). Using speakers\u2019 referential intentions to model early cross-situational word learning. Psychological Science, 20(5), 578\u201385. http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1467- 9280.2009.02335.x H\u00f6hle, B., Bijeljac-Babic, R., Herold, B., Weissenborn, J., & Nazzi, T. (2009). Language specific prosodic preferences during the first half year of life: evidence from German and French infants. Infant Behavior & Development, 32(3), 262\u2013 74. http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.infbeh.2009.03.004 Huang, Y. T., & Snedeker, J. (2009). Online interpretation of scalar quantifiers: Insight into the semantics\ufffdpragmatics interface. Cognitive Psychology, 58, 376\ufffd415. Ito, K., Jincho, N., Minai, U., Yamane, N., & Mazuka, R. (2012). Intonation facilitates contrast resolution: Evidence from Japanese adults and 6-year olds. Journal of Memory and Language, 66(1), 265\u2013284. http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jml.2011.09.002 Smith, L., & Yu, C. (2008). Infants rapidly learn word-referent mappings via crosssituational statistics. Cognition, 106(3), 1558\u201368. http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cognition.2007.06.010 Trueswell, J. C., Sekerina, I., Hill, N., & Logrip, M. (1999). The kindergarten-path effect: Studying online sentence processing in young children. Cognition, 73, 89\u2013134. Yoon, E. J., Wu, Y. C., & Frank, M. C. (2015). Children\u2019s online processing of adhoc implicatures. In Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Zhang, L., & Knoeferle, P. (2012). Visual Context Effects on Thematic Role Assignment in Children versus Adults: Evidence from Eye Tracking in German. In & R. P. C. Naomi Miyake David Peebles (Ed.), Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2593\u20132598). Boston, USA: The Cognitive Science Society.\n--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&larr; back to FoTeRo events &larr; back to CoGCI events Organizers: Pia Knoeferle (Bielefeld, chair), Barbara H\u00f6hle (Potsdam), Julia Kr\u00f6ger (Bielefeld), Stavros Skopeteas (Bielefeld), Isabell Wartenburger (Potsdam) Time and Venue: 19-20 May 2016, Humboldt-University Berlin, Dorotheenstr. 24, Dekanatsraum, (3.246) Program Invited Speakers: Shanley Allen (University of Kaiserslautern, Michael C. 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