Welcome to the Linguistics Program Colloquia Fall 2007!
"Major Linguistic Features of American Sign Language (ASL)." Kim Diez, Miami Dade College. November 14, 2007.
This talk explores the various linguistic features of ASL, including phonology, morphology, and syntax, with special emphasis on the major sentence types and the accompanying non-manual grammatical features that are required to convey appropriate meaning.
“Psycholinguistic Techniques and the Study of Language Development and Processing." Dr. Ana Gouvêa, Florida International University, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. October 24, 2007.
Psycholinguistic research has been trying to combine theoretical linguistics with experimental data to understand how language is represented and processed in the brain. This lecture discusses two experiments that used different psycholinguistics techniques to study language development and processing. The first experiment examined infants’ morphosyntactic comprehension abilities using the Head-turn preference procedure. The second used Electroencephalography (EEG) to study adult sentence comprehension.
"Factors Influencing the Production of English Aspirated Stops." Mehmet Yavas, Florida International University, Linguistics Program, Department of English. October 10, 2007.
In the
production of English aspirated stops, two factors – the place of articulation
of the stop, and the height of the following vowel – have been cited as
important determinants regarding the amount of aspiration. This lecture explores
the influence of these two variables in bilingual and interlanguage productions.