Congratulations Frank!
Frank, Lihui Tan, our Ph.D. student has been awarded an NSF scholarship to attend the workshop.
This workshop explores how speakers balance abstract linguistic knowledge, enabling flexible generalization, with item-specific knowledge, facilitating efficient handling of familiar contexts, aiming to unify insights across domains and methods.
Key Points of the Workshops
- Dual Knowledge: Speakers use abstract rules and experience-based specific knowledge.
- Ongoing Debate: How these knowledge types interact and apply in language use is under debate.
- Recent Advances: New experimental methods and computational models drive progress.
- Interdisciplinary Focus: Integrates phonology, lexical semantics, syntax, and psycholinguistics using methods like:
- Experimental linguistics (e.g., wug-tests)
- Language acquisition
- Morphological processing
- Corpus data
- Computational modeling
- Workshop Format: Features a student poster session, invited talks, and panels on:
- Evidence: Data on abstract vs. specific knowledge.
- Modeling: Computational models of dual knowledge.
- Learning: Simultaneous acquisition of both knowledge types.
- Brain: Neural basis of storage and abstraction.
- Evolution: Influence on language evolution and processing.
Goal of the Workshop
To develop a coherent, evidence-based understanding of abstract and item-specific knowledge in language.