Inbal Arnon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Tuesday 14 November 2017, 11:00\u201312:30 Why are children better language learners than adults despite being worse at a range of other cognitive tasks? Many accounts focus on the cognitive or neurological differences between children and adults. Here, I focus on the way prior knowledge impacts the building blocks children and adults use.\u00a0I explore the role of multiword sequences in explaining L1\u2013L2 differences in learning and language use more generally to argue that children are more likely than adults to rely on them in learning. While words are often seen as the basic building blocks of language (e.g., Pinker, 1991), there is\u00a0 growing theoretical interest and empirical evidence for\u00a0the role of multiword units in language. I draw on developmental, psycholinguistic and computational findings to show that children use multiword units in learning; that such units are facilitative for learning certain grammatical relations; and that adult learners rely on them less, a pattern that can\u00a0explain some of the differences between child and adult language learning. I will then present findings on the emergence of structure in child and adult learners and discuss implications for models of L1 and L2 learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" More than words: developmental and psycholinguistic investigations of the building blocks of language Inbal Arnon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)\u00a0 Tuesday 14 November 2017, 11:00\u201312:30 G32, 7 George Square Why are children better language learners than adults despite being worse at a range of other cognitive tasks? Many accounts focus on the cognitive or neurological differences … Continue reading 14 November: Inbal Arnon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2733,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732\/revisions\/2733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nG32, 7 George Square<\/p>\n