'How Bilingualism Changes Language and Cognition,' Sept. 28
by Michelle Saport |
Monday, Sept. 28, 2-3:30 p.m. UAA/APU Consortium Library, Room 307
Viorica Marian, Ph.D., presents "How Bilingualism Changes Language and Cognition."
Abstract: A bilingual's linguistic architecture is highly interactive and dynamic, both within and across languages. In this talk, Marian will show that bilinguals maintain both languages active during comprehension. Using eye-tracking data, Marian will suggest that bilinguals' domain-specific experience with language competition shows a relationship to domain-general executive function and to a bilingual advantage in novel language learning. These differences in language processing and language learning suggest fundamental changes to linguistic and cognitive function as a result of bilingualism.
About the speaker: Viorica Marian, Ph.D., is a professor of communication sciences and disorders, psychology, and cognitive science at Northwestern University and the director of the Biligualism and Psycholinguistics Research Group, funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. She is also a UAA Alumni of Distinction (B.A. Psychology '94).
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