Dwa wykłady w ramach wizyty mentoringowej: dr Zuzanna Fuchs, University of Southern California

16 11 2023

Wydział Psychologii serdecznie zaprasza na dwa wykłady w ramach wizyty mentoringowej dr Zuzanny Fuchs, Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Southern California, dyrektor Laboratorium Psycholingwistyki Jedno- i Wielojęzyczności (PoMMLab), USC.

Wykład pt. „A unique profile of bilingual acquisition: The case for heritage speakers” odbędzie się w dn. 21.11.2023 w godz. 15:15 – 16:00, w Aulii na Wydziale Psychologii (ul. Stawki 5/7).

Streszczenie:

An increasing portion of the world’s population fits in the category of “heritage speakers” — those who learn their home (heritage) language from their immediate family, but predominantly speak a different language outside of the home. This talk will discuss how this profile of bilingual acquisition is both interesting in its own right and can be leveraged to offer exciting insights into the interplay of proficiency, the age of onset of bilingualism, and the nature of the acquisition process in determining certain linguistic skills in adulthood.

Wykład pt. „Polish agreement morphemes: how animacy and grammatical gender interact during language processing” odbędzie się w dn. 22.11.2023 w godz. 16:00 – 17:30, w sali 98 na Wydziale Psychologii (ul. Stawki 5/7).

Streszczenie:

This study investigates how noun category information is processed during language comprehension when a portmanteau morpheme realizes agreement in more than one noun-category feature – in this case, grammatical gender and animacy. In Polish, masculine nouns determine different agreement morphology in the accusative singular depending on whether the head noun is animate (adjectival suffix -ego) or inanimate (adjectival suffix -y). In a study on facilitative use of agreement marking in the Visual World Paradigm incorporating the Covered Box Paradigm, results show that when participants encounter a prenominal adjective inflected for accusative masculine animate (ex. zielon-ego), looks to the masculine animate target are reduced in the presence of competitors that are partial feature matches: feminine animate or masculine inanimate. Similarly, when participants encounter a prenominal adjective inflected for accusative masculine inanimate (ex. zielon-y), looks to the masculine inanimate target are reduced in the presence of a feminine inanimate competitor. This indicates that the Polish mental lexicon consists of both abstract gender category nodes and semantic animacy category nodes. Moreover, the results suggest that, during language comprehension, encountering portmanteau morphology that indexes agreement in both features independently activates these gender and animacy category nodes, spreading pre-activation to all connected lexical items.

Wizyta mentoringowa zorganizowana w ramach Działania I.1.1/IV.1.1 „Program Mentor” w ramach Programu „Inicjatywa Doskonałości – Uczelnia Badawcza” na zaproszenie Katedry Psychologii Poznawczej i Neurokognitywistyki Wydziału Psychologii UW.

Oba wykłady będą prowadzone w języku angielskim.