{"id":3547,"date":"2025-06-11T10:42:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T02:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.hku.hk\/ldlhku\/?p=3547"},"modified":"2025-08-13T14:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T06:41:09","slug":"frank-lihui-tan-our-ph-d-student-has-been-awarded-an-nsf-scholarship-to-attend-the-abstract-and-item-specific-knowledge-across-domains-and-frameworks-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.hku.hk\/ldlhku\/archives\/3547","title":{"rendered":"Frank, Lihui Tan, our Ph.D. student has been awarded an NSF scholarship to attend the Abstract and Item-Specific Knowledge Across Domains and Frameworks workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Congratulations Frank!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frank, Lihui Tan, our Ph.D. student has been awarded an NSF scholarship to attend the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/usc.edu\/abstract-specific\/home\">workshop<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Key Points of the Workshops<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Dual Knowledge<\/strong>: Speakers use abstract rules and experience-based specific knowledge.<\/li><li><strong>Ongoing Debate<\/strong>: How these knowledge types interact and apply in language use is under debate.<\/li><li><strong>Recent Advances<\/strong>: New experimental methods and computational models drive progress.<\/li><li><strong>Interdisciplinary Focus<\/strong>: Integrates phonology, lexical semantics, syntax, and psycholinguistics using methods like:<ul><li>Experimental linguistics (e.g., wug-tests)<\/li><li>Language acquisition<\/li><li>Morphological processing<\/li><li>Corpus data<\/li><li>Computational modeling<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Workshop Format<\/strong>: Features a student poster session, invited talks, and panels on:<ul><li><strong>Evidence<\/strong>: Data on abstract vs. specific knowledge.<\/li><li><strong>Modeling<\/strong>: Computational models of dual knowledge.<\/li><li><strong>Learning<\/strong>: Simultaneous acquisition of both knowledge types.<\/li><li><strong>Brain<\/strong>: Neural basis of storage and abstraction.<\/li><li><strong>Evolution<\/strong>: Influence on language evolution and processing.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2>Goal of the Workshop<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To develop a coherent, evidence-based understanding of abstract and item-specific knowledge in language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations Frank! Frank, Lihui Tan, our Ph.D. student has been awarded an NSF scholarship to attend the&nbsp;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[175,177,180,176,178,173,171,174,179,172],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.hku.hk\/ldlhku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.hku.hk\/ldlhku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.hku.hk\/ldlhku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.hku.hk\/ldlhku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.hku.hk\/ldlhku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3547"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.hku.hk\/ldlhku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3655,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.hku.hk\/ldlhku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions\/3655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.hku.hk\/ldlhku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.hku.hk\/ldlhku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.hku.hk\/ldlhku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.hku.hk\/ldlhku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}