33.2127, FYI: Judith Kroll ExLing Tutorial

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Subject: 33.2127, FYI: Judith Kroll ExLing Tutorial

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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2022 02:46:35
From: Antonis Botinis [info at exlingsociety.com]
Subject: Judith Kroll ExLing Tutorial

 
Judith Kroll, Professor in the Department of Language Science at the
University of California, Irvine, will deliver the ExLing tutorial "Variation
in language experience as a lens for understanding the dynamics of the
bilingual mind and brain" on June 24, 16:00GMT. Further information at
https://exlingsociety.com.

Outline:

In the last two decades there has been an upsurge of research on the bilingual
mind and brain. Although the world is multilingual, only recently have
cognitive and language scientists come to see that the use of two or more
languages provides a unique lens to examine the neural plasticity engaged by
language experience. But how? It is now uncontroversial to claim that the
bilingual’s two languages are continually active, creating a dynamic interplay
across the two languages. But there continues to be controversy about the
consequences of that cross-language exchange for how cognitive and neural
resources are recruited when a second language is learned and used actively
and whether native speakers of a language retain privilege in their first
acquired language. In the earliest months of life, minds and brains are tuned
differently when exposed to more than one language from birth. That tuning has
been hypothesized to open the speech system to new learning. But when initial
exposure is to a home language that is not the majority language of the
community, the experience common to heritage speakers, the value of
bilingualism has been challenged, in part because we are lacking an adequate
account of the variation in language experience. In this talk, I illustrate
the ways that recent studies have shown that the minds and brains of
bilinguals are inherently complex and social, taking into account the
variation in contexts in which the two languages are learned and used, and
shaping the dynamics of cross-language exchange across the lifespan.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition





 



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