PROGRAM
First Week Second Week
March 16, Monday
<> 9 - 12 Course: A Meaning-First Approach to Biolinguistics (Uli Sauerland / 1st Class)
Day 1: Introduction to the Meaning-First Perspective
Day 2: Commission Errors in Language Acquisition
Day 3: Thought Uniqueness
Day 4: Possible Concepts
<> 2 - 2:50 Talk: Grammar beyond language: formal aspects of nonhuman primate vocal
behavior (Cilene Rodrigues)
March 17, Tuesday
<> 9 - 12 Course: Fundamental concepts in psycholinguistics (Eva Fernández/1st Class)
This mini-course will present fundamental concepts in psycholinguistics, offering an overview of key topics in the study of how people acquire and process language. Special attention will be paid to acquisition of second languages, and to language processing by speakers of more than one language. The course will provide participants with the opportunity to present and receive feedback on applications of the course's material to their own research.The course will draw from the text Fundamentals of Psycholinguistics (Fernández & Cairns, 2010, Wiley-Blackwell).
Day 1: Overview
Day 2: Acquisition
Day 3: Processing
Day 4: Participant presentations
<> 12 - 12:50 Talk: Compression within a Generative View of Thought and Language (Uli Sauerland)
<> 2 - 2:50 Talk: Closure Positive Shift as a marker of prosodic processing in Brazilian
Portuguese (Miguel Oliveira Jr.)
March 18, Wednesday
<> 9 - 12 Course: A Meaning-First Approach to Biolinguistics (Uli Sauerland / 2nd Class)
<> 2 - 2:50 Talk: (Claudia Drummond)
March 19, Thursday
<> 9 - 12 Course: Fundamental concepts in psycholinguistics (Eva Fernández / 2nd Class)
<> 12 - 12:50 Talk: (Aline Gesualdi-Manhães)
<> 2 - 2:50 Talk: Linguagem e Cognição no Envelhecimento: Language and Cognition in Aging
(Erica Rodrigues)