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The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Language Comprehension Lab invites you to the following talk:
Falk Huettig (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
The Extended Literate Mind Hypothesis
In this talk I will describe the Enhanced Literate Mind (ELM) hypothesis. As individuals learn to read and write, they are, from then on, exposed to extensive written-language input and become literate. I propose that literacy acquisition leads to, both, increased language knowledge as well as enhanced language and non-language perceptual and cognitive skills. The ELM hypothesis connects with the notion that all neurotypical (native) language users (including illiterate, low literate, and high literate individuals) share a Basic Language Cognition (BLC) in the domain of oral informal language (Hulstijn, 2015). Finally, I will discuss the possibility that the acquisition of ELM leads to some degree of ‘knowledge parallelism’ between BLC and ELM in literate language users, which has implications for empirical research on individual and situational differences in spoken language processing.
Date: Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Time: 4 pm to 5:30 pm CET
Venue: QS D-001 Tiered* (Vienna)
Zoom: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/95645784479?pwd=T2IvYXNJWXovb3Rndk54VE9Zdm0yUT09
Chair: Eva Wittenberg
*Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must RSVP to get access to the lecture hall.
Please note that we might make a video recording of the lecture, store the record for an unlimited period of time under CEU’s Panopto account, and share the link with CEU students, staff and faculty.
Best regards,
Andi and Fanni