[lg policy] call: Mysteries of the Mono- and Multilingual Mind: Its Complex Storage and Processing Structures

[Harold Schiffman]

Mysteries of the Mono- and Multilingual Mind: Its Complex Storage and
Processing Structures

Date: 29-Aug-2013 - 01-Sep-2013
Location: Poznan, Poland
Contact: Anna Cieslicka
Contact Email: < click here to access email >

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Psycholinguistics

Meeting Description:

The purpose of this thematic session is to bring together
psycholinguists to discuss the complexity of the mono/bilingual mind
from different perspectives and explore cognitive constraints on
language processing. Understanding and producing language is
determined by a number of factors, both those broadly related to the
cognitive domain, such as memory, executive functions, attention, or
intelligence, and those related to the language processing domain per
se, such as figurativeness or literality of the language stimulus
being processed, context, and salience, to name but a few. This
session invites presentations addressing complexity of the monolingual
and bi/multilingual mind and the factors which have emerged as crucial
in determining language and cognitive functioning, both in healthy
individuals and clinical populations.

Some of the topics to be discussed include, but are not limited to,
the following:

1) the role of working memory in language processing
2) bilingual figurative language processing (A. B. Cieślicka, Texas
A&M University-International)
3) sentence processing in bilingual speakers (R.R. Heredia, Texas A&M
University-International)
4) bilingual memory
5) bilingual processing of emotional words
6) understanding humor in bilinguals
7) irony comprehension in bilingualism (K. Bromberek-Dyzman; UAM)
8) the role of working memory and phonological processing in second
language acquisition
9) the role of auditory memory in L2 phonology
10) the role of executive functions in language processing in
schizophrenia patients (P. Ogrodowicz, M. Marecka and K. Rataj, UAM)
11) determinants of language processing in aphasic patients (M. Połczyńska, UAM)

Sample bibliography:

Altarriba, J., & Basnight-Brown, D. M. (2011). The representation of
emotion vs. emotion-laden words in English and in Spanish in the
Affective Simon Task. International Journal of Bilingualism, 15, 3,
310-328
Baddeley, A. D., Gathercole, S. E., & Papagno, C. (1998). The
phonological loop as a language learning device. Psychological Review,
105(1), 158–173.
Baddeley, A.D. (2003) Working memory and language: An overview.
Journal of Communication Disorders, 36 (3), 189-208.
Bromberek-Dyzman, K. (2012). Affective twist in irony processing.
Humana Mente. Journal of Philosophical Studies, 23, 83-111.
Cieślicka, A. B. & Heredia, R. R. (2011). Hemispheric asymmetries in
processing L1 and L2 idioms: Effects of salience and context. Brain &
Language, 116, 136-150.
Francis, W. S., & Gallard, S. L. K. (2005). Concept mediation in
trilingual translation: Evidence from response times and repetition
priming patterns. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12, 1082-1088.
Heredia, R.R., & Altarriba, J. (2002) (Eds.). Bilingual sentence
processing. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.
Mora, J. C. & Cerviño-Povedano, E. (2010). Phonological short-term
memory and L2 vowel perception. Paper presented at the20th Annual
Conference of the Eropean Second Language Association (EUROSLA-20),
Reggio Emilia, Italy, 1-4.
Połczyńska, M. & Marecka, M. (2011). First and second language
phonological processes in clinical populations. in:
Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, K.; Wrembel, M.; Kul, M. (eds.) Achievements and
perspectives in SLA of speech: New Sounds 2010. Frankfurt am Main:
Peter Lang, 207-216.
Vaid, J., Hull, R., Heredia, R., Gerkens, D., & Martinez, F. (2003).
Getting a joke: The time course of meaning activation in verbal humor.
Journal of Pragmatics, 35, 9, 1431–1449.

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