[PLing] Jezik & Linguistics Colloquia series: Giorgio Piazza (December 18 @ 13:00)

[Jezik&Linguistics Colloquia]

Dear all,

The Center for Cognitive Science of Language at the University of Nova
Gorica would like to invite you to our next Jezik & Linguistics Colloquium,
to be held on *Thursday, December 18,* at *13:00 CET*, streaming on Zoom
<https://ungsi.zoom.us/j/69078801802?pwd=adfU10B2NjKlXVKGEOWWAbRdzEGToR.1> (
https://ungsi.zoom.us/j/69078801802?pwd=adfU10B2NjKlXVKGEOWWAbRdzEGToR.1).

Giorgio Piazza (Trinity College, Dublin; University of Padova) will be
presenting a talk titled "*Naturalistic Language Comprehension in
Psycholinguistic Research: Multimodal Cues and Speaker Adaptation in
Continuous Speech*".


*Psycholinguistic research has historically relied on controlled
manipulations. Although these remain essential, everyday communication is
continuous, multimodal, and shaped by who we talk to. In this talk, I argue
for studying language comprehension under more naturalistic conditions and
show what this approach can reveal by presenting two EEG studies.*

*The first study examines how L1 speakers adapt their speech when
addressing L2 listeners and how this adaptation shapes comprehension during
continuous listening. We show that this register boosts cortical encoding
of acoustic, phonological, and semantic information in L2 learners,
demonstrating that listener-directed adaptation has measurable effects
across the processing hierarchy.*

*The second study investigates predictive processing using continuous
audiovisual speech. We show that the brain predicts not only phonemes and
words but also visemes (visual phonemes). These visual predictions enhance
semantic prediction, revealing a predictive system that is inherently
multimodal.*

*Together, these findings highlight the value of naturalistic research and
underscore the importance of studying language comprehension as it occurs
in everyday life.*


We hope to see you there!



Best,

Artem Novozhilov, on behalf of the Center for the Cognitive Science of
Language
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