Prof. Charles Yang | The Learning of Linguistic Rules
Guest Lecture
- Date: Apr 24, 2018
- Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Prof. Charles Yang
- Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, USA
- Location: MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
- Room: Charlotte Buehler Room (C402)
- Host: Department of Neuropsychology
While Merge is available to only us, languages still differ with respect to the systematic rules they use. In this talk, I discuss the acquisition of rules by children, and how a principled theory of learning simplifies the machinery of human language. Synthesizing research findings in the domain of numerical cognition, I will also present evidence that the form of linguistic rules and its acquisition create the foundation for conceptual knowledge and development. Poster