Conference: Computational and Psycholinguistic Approaches to Second Language Acquisition

会议：第二语言习得的计算和心理语言学方法

• 批准号: 2336394
• 负责人: Silvina Montrul
• 金额: $ 3.8万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-04-15 至 2026-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2336394&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Computational; Psycholinguistic; Approaches; Second

Language is a unique property of human beings. Children can acquire one, two, or multiple languages depending on the input that they receive, and many people continue to learn new languages throughout their lives. The scholarly field for language study is linguistics, and one linguistic framework is generative linguistic theory. Important areas of study in this domain include how languages are represented in the human mind, how these mental representations are acquired by children, how the different languages of a bilingual or a second language learner influence each other, and how language acquisition proceeds in the presence of developmental disabilities. In addition to advancing a scientific understanding of how the human mind works and how learning proceeds, research on second language acquisition has practical implications for many other fields including literacy development, foreign language instruction, and the identification and treatment of language disorders.This conference brings together established researchers and junior scholars who study second language acquisition and bilingualism from the generative perspective. The conference addresses core questions on how second and bilingual language acquisition proceeds and features a special session focusing on advances in psycholinguistics and computational approaches. The special session examines how second language learners and bilinguals process linguistic input and the mechanisms for second language acquisition, as well as how recent advances in computational modelling and tools have opened new research paradigms and novel insights. The convergent use of behavioral data and computational modeling can be a powerful tool to promote theory development, facilitate the interpretation of behavioral findings, and generate hypotheses for new second language research. The conference features four invited talks by prominent researchers with expertise in bilingual and second language acquisition of grammatical phenomena, and, in the case of the two special session speakers, psycholinguistics and computational modelling. The conference encourages broad participation: three invited speakers are women, the conference provides travel awards to graduate student and post-doctoral scholar presenters, and selected papers from the conference are published in a proceedings volume.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

语言是人类的独特属性。儿童可以根据收到的意见获取一种，两种或多种语言，许多人一生都会继续学习新语言。语言研究的学术领域是语言学，一个语言框架是生成语言理论。该领域中的重要研究领域包括人类思想中的语言如何代表，孩子如何获得这些心理表征，双语或第二语言学习者的不同语言如何相互影响，以及在存在发展障碍的情况下如何进行语言习得。除了促进对人类思想的运作方式以及学习方式的科学理解外，对第二语言获取的研究还对许多其他领域的研究具有实际影响，包括识字发展，外语教学以及语言障碍的识别和治疗。这次会议汇集了既定的研究人员和初级学者，他们从本质上研究了第二种语言的获取和bimightialism。该会议介绍了有关第二和双语语言获取如何进行和特殊会议的核心问题，该会议侧重于心理语言学和计算方法的进步。特别会议研究了第二语言学习者和双语者如何处理语言输入以及第二语言获取的机制，以及计算建模和工具的最新进步如何打开新的研究范式和新颖的见解。行为数据和计算建模的收敛使用可以是促进理论发展，促进行为发现的解释并为新的第二语言研究产生假设的强大工具。 该会议的著名研究人员的四次邀请演讲具有双语和第二语言的语法现象的专业知识，并且在两个特别会议的演讲者的情况下，心理语言学和计算建模。会议鼓励广泛参与：三位受邀演讲者是女性，会议为研究生和博士后学者演示者提供了旅行奖，并在会议卷卷中发表了会议的精选论文。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过该基金会的知识分子的知识和广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务。