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