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LSLT - Sophie Domanski / Language and location

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LSLT - Sophie Domanski / Language and location

Linguistics Thursday, April 11, 2024 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm H.J. Patterson Hall

Information Day 2024, the LSLT has Sophie Domanski from Hearing and Speech Sciences, presenting her work on the relation between language, attention and working memory, focusing on the role of spatial context in language acquisition.

The spatial context of everyday speech to children is remarkably consistent. Words tend to repeatedly occur in the same locations, and these words are learned earlier than those which are more scattered in use. Yet little is known about how spatial contextualization influences this process. In this talk I will discuss how word learning is influenced by different levels of spatial contextualization in naturalistic scenes, and how the need for inductive inference mediates reliance on spatial context.

Add to Calendar 04/11/24 12:30:00 04/11/24 13:30:00 America/New_York LSLT - Sophie Domanski / Language and location

Information Day 2024, the LSLT has Sophie Domanski from Hearing and Speech Sciences, presenting her work on the relation between language, attention and working memory, focusing on the role of spatial context in language acquisition.

The spatial context of everyday speech to children is remarkably consistent. Words tend to repeatedly occur in the same locations, and these words are learned earlier than those which are more scattered in use. Yet little is known about how spatial contextualization influences this process. In this talk I will discuss how word learning is influenced by different levels of spatial contextualization in naturalistic scenes, and how the need for inductive inference mediates reliance on spatial context.

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