35.3129, FYI: Online C-STAR lecture 11/8, Jeremy Yeaton: Attempting to quantify expressive syntactic competence

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Subject: 35.3129, FYI: Online C-STAR lecture 11/8, Jeremy Yeaton: Attempting to quantify expressive syntactic competence

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Date: 06-Nov-2024
From: Dirk Den Ouden [ouden at mailbox.sc.edu]
Subject: Online C-STAR lecture 11/8, Jeremy Yeaton: Attempting to quantify expressive syntactic competence


Friday, November 8th, 11.30am ET (4.30pm UTC)
Presentation in Zoom, accessible via the C-STAR website:
http://cstar.sc.edu/lecture-series/

Attempting to quantify expressive syntactic competence

Jeremy Yeaton
University of California, Irvine

Sentence production is a linguistically challenging task at multiple
levels of processing, and yet has been the subject of relatively
little research compared to sentence comprehension. In particular,
expressive syntactic deficits in aphasia–which result in speakers
producing ungrammatical sentences–remain poorly described or
understood. To move this needle, I will present a novel framework for
the analysis of syntactic structure in discourse based on mechanistic
psycholinguistic models of sentence production. In a sample of
patients with chronic post-stroke aphasia, I will show that this
methodology captures quantifiable, neurally meaningful linguistic
deficits, above and beyond existing methodologies to characterize
syntactic performance. To further advance our understanding of
grammatical aspects of sentence production, I will present preliminary
data from a novel task aimed at assessing and dissociating receptive
and expressive syntactic performance. Finally, I will present data
from an unusually large sample of acute stroke patients (n=845) which
raises questions about the prevailing wisdom of left-hemisphere
dominance of language across the population.
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The online lecture can be followed online from your computer, tablet
or smartphone, in Zoom. The zoom link is accessible via the C-STAR
website: http://cstar.sc.edu/lecture-series/

The watch party for the lecture will be in Discovery, room #140 (915
Greene Street, Columbia, SC)

For more information, or to be added to the C-STAR mailing list,
contact Dirk den Ouden: denouden at sc.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Clinical Linguistics
                     Cognitive Science
                     General Linguistics
                     Neurolinguistics
                     Syntax




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