[PLing] Talk by Olga Solaja on February 6, 13:15 CET

[Madeleine Butschety]

Dear colleagues, 

we cordially invite you to a talk by Olga Solaja (Language, Learning and Reading Lab -- SISSA) as part of the Jezik & Linguistics Colloquia series. Her talk entitled " Meaningful and Meaningless: Morphology and Statistical Learning in Novel Words " (abstract: see below) will take place this week on Thursday, February 6 , at 13:15 CET at lecture room P7 at the University of Nova Gorica (Kompas building), and online. 

To attend the talk via Zoom, please use the following link: 
[ https://ungsi.zoom.us/j/69432448945?pwd=VqQYYUM9uHfrSgAZAEhaUYNC2YOTqz.1 | https://ungsi.zoom.us/j/69432448945?pwd=VqQYYUM9uHfrSgAZAEhaUYNC2YOTqz.1 ] 

We hope to see many of you there! 

Best, 
Madeleine Butschety, on behalf of the Center for Cognitive Science of Language 

>>ABSTRACT: Olga Solaja 
" Meaningful and Meaningless: Morphology and Statistical Learning in Novel Words " 

Literate adults encounter new, previously unknown words on a daily basis, and typically during reading. Usually, they have to interpret their meaning on the fly, which suggests that they are able to compute meaning of the novel words from the information provided in the text. There are two sources of information to consider here: the context of the sentence, and the structure of the word itself. While the association of the form and meaning in the human lexicon are largely arbitrary, some regularities do exist. The correlation of form and meaning is most evident in morphology. My research explores this relationship in the context of novel word learning: how much of the learning success is due to the semantics carried by the suffixes and how much is an effect of pure statistics of letter cooccurrence? How does this different information influence the learning process? Does the learning success depend on the type of task and information provided? Do the learning strategies depend on the statistical learning skill of the individual? In the talk I will present an eye-tracking and behavioral study that attempted to answer these questions. 


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