Modelling Meets Infant Studies in Language Acquisition: A Dialogue on Current Challenges and Future Directions
9 - 13 September 2013
Venue: Lorentz Center@Oort
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Modelling meets Infant Studies in Language Acquisition:
A Dialogue on Current Challenges and Future Directions
The study of first language acquisition is crucial in furthering our understanding of the cognitive prerequisites and processes involved in language, a defining capacity of human cognition. Currently, early language acquisition is successfully studied from two main perspectives: one approach tests theoretical assumptions by studying infants’ responses with behavioural and neurocognitive methods; the other implements theories by means of computational models. This workshop aims to bring these two approaches closer together, a much needed advance in the field and one that promises to deepen our understanding of the issues that play a role during language acquisition.
