Correction: The date is Oktober 7.

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The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its
talk by


Prof. Juan M. Toro (Center for Brain and Cognition ICREA - University
Pompeji Fabra)


Date: Wednesday, Oktober 7, 2015 - 17:00-18:30


Something old, something new: Combining mechanisms during language
acquisition


Abstract: I will present recent research on two separate topics that
suggests
human infants use a combination of both evolutionary old and new
cognitive tools to tackle the task of language acquisition. Research
on the principles that guide how humans and non-human animals group
sequences of sounds has shown that we share with other species
perceptual biases that we apply to linguistic stimuli. On the contrary,
research on processing differences between consonants and vowels
suggests humans, but not other animals, benefit from a "division of
labor” across phonological representations. This division
would help to extract regularities from the speech signal and facilitate
language learning. The studies I will present Provider support to the
idea that perceptual biases together with
language-specific representations guide the discovery of linguistic
structures.


Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7,
room 101.


We are looking forward to see you there (Oktober 6 street 7)!
Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events



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