The social and cognitive foundations of language acquisition
In this talk I will discuss my experimental, corpus and modelling work exploring the social and cognitive foundations of language acquisition. In an approach that can be described as developmental cognitive linguistics I aim to show (a) how cognitive bottlenecks can place adaptive constraints on learning and (b) the value-added of integrating social and cognitive development into our models of language development. Examples are drawn from such non-linguistic domains as inhibition, memory, attention, and categorisation to illustrative how their development can shape the course of language acquisition.
Date: 22 February 2022, 17:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Hilary 2022)
Venue: Zoom
Speaker: Dr Paul Ibbotson (The Open University)
Organising department: Department of Education
Organiser contact email address: fiona.jelley@education.ox.ac.uk
Host: Professor Iram Siraj (University of Oxford)
Part of: Child Development and Learning
Booking required?: Required
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Audience: Public
Editor: Fiona Jelley