Workshop: Advances in the neuro-cognitive underpinnings of typical and atypical language development

Organizers: Mila Vulchanova (Language Acquisition and Language Processing Lab, NTNU), Valentin Vulchanov (Language Acquisition and Language Processing Lab, NTNU), Jim Magnuson (University of Connecticut – USA/BCBL - Spain) & Inge-Marie Eigsti (University of Connecticut – USA)

EDULANG graduate training event and workshop

Invited speakers:
Jenny Saffran (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
Johannes Ziegler (Aix-Marseille Université)
Philippe Prévost (Université de Tours)

Programme:
May 24th

09.15 – 09.30 Welcome

09.30 – 10.30 Atypical shape bias in autism – Mila Vulchanova (Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Norway)

10.30 – 10.45 Break

10.45 – 12.00 Strengths and weaknesses of think-aloud protocols (TAPs) in language studies – Annjo Klungervik-Greenall (Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Norway)

12.00 13.00 Lunch

13.00 – 15.00 Students present on current challenge(s) in project (9 stud x ca 13 min)

15.00 – 15.30 Break

15.30 – 17.00 Students present on current challenge(s) in project (7 stud x ca 13 min)

 

May 25th Workshop

09.15 – 10.45 Statistical learning and language development – Jenny Saffran (University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA)

10.45 – 11.00 Break

11.00 – 12.30 Learning-to-read and dyslexia: a cross-language computational perspective – Johannes Ziegler (Aix-Marseille Université, France)

12.30 – 13.00 Lunch

13.00 – 14.30 Does bilingualism impede language development in autistic children? –Philippe Prévost (Université de Tours, France)

14.30 – 15.00 Break

15.00 – 16.30 Computational constraints on statistical learning James Magnuson

(University of Connecticut/Basque Center on Cognition, Brain, and Language)

16.30 – 17.00 Discussion

 

May 26th

09.30 – 10.00 Language abilities of autistic children with or without Intellectual Development Disorder: towards defining linguistic/cognitive profiles – Philippe Prévost (Université de Tours, France)

10.30 – 10.45 break

10.45 – 12.15 Exceptional reading development and phonological category learning in autistic young adults – Inge-Marie Eigsti (University of Connecticut, USA)

12.15 – 13.15 Lunch

13.15 – Discussion and final remarks

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