{"id":8947,"date":"2016-10-31T06:03:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T10:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=8947"},"modified":"2016-10-31T00:21:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T04:21:53","slug":"essllacqlab-meeting-jie-ren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2016\/10\/31\/essllacqlab-meeting-jie-ren\/","title":{"rendered":"ESSL\/LacqLab Meeting 11\/01 &#8212; Jie Ren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/brown.edu\/jie-ren\/\"><strong>Jie Ren<\/strong><\/a> (Brown University)<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: <em>Underspecification in Toddlers&#8217; and Adults&#8217; Lexical Representations<\/em><\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nDate: Tuesday, November 1st<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: 1&#8212;2pm<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-D461<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nAbstract:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Theories of underspecification claim that certain unmarked features are empty\/underspecified in<br clear='none'\/>\nlexical representation. This hypothesis predicts asymmetrical judgments in lexical processing. In<br clear='none'\/>\nparticular, noncoronal tokens such as paan can putatively activate a coronal entry taan, but not<br clear='none'\/>\nvice versa. Studies with both younger infants and adults had found that participants are more<br clear='none'\/>\nsensitive to noncoronal-to-coronal than to coronal-to-noncoronal changes. In this talk, I will<br clear='none'\/>\nreport a series of studies that examined toddlers\u0092 and adults\u0092 sensitivities to these two types of<br clear='none'\/>\nchanges in mispronunciations of familiar words using the visual world paradigm. Unlike the<br clear='none'\/>\nprediction of underspecification, 19-month-olds and adults showed significant effects in both<br clear='none'\/>\ndirections of mispronunciations, and no asymmetries were attributable to underspecification of<br clear='none'\/>\ncoronal sounds. Toddlers\u0092 lexical representations appear to be as detailed as those of adults, and<br clear='none'\/>\nthere is a striking developmental continuity between early and mature lexical representations.<br clear='none'\/>\nFinally, I will report a computational model which suggests that discrepancies between the<br clear='none'\/>\ncurrent findings and those of previous studies appear to be due to methodological differences that<br clear='none'\/>\ncast doubt on the validity of claims of psycholinguistic support for underspecification.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Jie Ren (Brown University) Title: Underspecification in Toddlers&#8217; and Adults&#8217; Lexical Representations Date: Tuesday, November 1st Time: 1&#8212;2pm Location: 32-D461 Abstract: Theories of underspecification claim that certain unmarked features are empty\/underspecified in lexical representation. This hypothesis predicts asymmetrical judgments in lexical processing. In particular, noncoronal tokens such as paan can putatively activate a coronal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8947"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8996,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8947\/revisions\/8996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}