Johns Hopkins University
Homewood Campus
(410-516-5250/office phone)

COGNITIVE SCIENCE DEPARTMENT

Thursday, April 9, 2009
3:45 PM

Dr. Gary Dell

Department of Psychology,
University of Illinois

Implicit learning in the language production system as revealed by speech errors: Some studies within an emerging framework in psycholinguistics

Psycholinguistics is traditionally described as the study of comprehension, production, and acquisition, with the unifying theme being that these three abilities are informative about the role of grammar in linguistic performance. An emerging framework within modern psycholinguistics has a different view on the unity of the "psycholinguistic trinity," one that is based on the relationship between processing and learning. I review this framework generally, and exemplify it with our group's recent research on the learning of phonotactic-like constraints in experimental settings.