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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#201F1E;mso-ligatures:none">Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, dear colleagues,</span><span lang="DE" style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#201F1E;mso-ligatures:none">wir würden uns sehr freuen, Sie zahlreich nächste Woche bei uns begrüßen zu dürfen zu einem Vortrag von/ </span><span lang="DE" style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#201F1E;mso-ligatures:none">the CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to the following talk</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"> by</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#201F1E;mso-ligatures:none">:</span><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121"><a href="https://psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/jesse-snedeker" title="https://psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/jesse-snedeker"><span style="color:#0078D7">Jesse Snedeker,</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Harvard
University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="contentpasted0"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#201F1E">Date</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#201F1E">:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black">Tuesday</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#201F1E">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black">July
4</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#201F1E">, 202</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black">3<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span class="contentpasted0"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E">Venue</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E">:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>D00</b></span><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">2</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E">-</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E">(QS
Vienna) and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Zoom</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/94044877942?pwd%3DclBVdjk5YUlBeE1Ua3RGdTU3TWpJZz09&sa=D&source=calendar&usd=2&usg=AOvVaw3k_79YtfrqwJJnl6DMUZjO" target="_blank" title="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/94044877942?pwd%3DclBVdjk5YUlBeE1Ua3RGdTU3TWpJZz09&sa=D&source=calendar&usd=2&usg=AOvVaw3k_79YtfrqwJJnl6DMUZjO"><span style="color:#0078D7">https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/94044877942?pwd=clBVdjk5YUlBeE1Ua3RGdTU3TWpJZz09</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Meeting ID: 940 4487 7942<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
Passcode: 393993<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="jtukpc"><span style="color:black">Chair:</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#201F1E"> </span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black">Eva
Wittenberg</span></b></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in"><span class="jtukpc"><span style="color:#212121">Title: </span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black">Who did what to whom? Marking event participants in Emerging Languages</span></b></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">A central question in the study of any language is how it marks the role that each argument is playing in an event. A central question in linguistic typology is why some patterns
of marking are more common than others. And central questions in language development are how these patterns are acquired, what they tell us about pre-linguistic conceptual structures and the degree to which the acquisition process shapes typology. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">Historically, two strong hypotheses have bridged typology and acquisition. The word-order hypothesis proposes that order is a cognitively salient cue, which is available to
children before linguistic cues (like case or verbal agreement) and thus appears early in the emergence of a new language, though it may decline in importance over historical evolution as new devices are created. The agent-first hypothesis proposes that agents
have a privileged role in event representations–either because they move first or because they are conceptually salient. This leads children to expect them to appear first in the sentence, resulting in a strong bias for agent-first word order in emerging languages,
which persists in most languages with a preferred word order.</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">Both hypotheses make strong predictions for emerging languages. While spoken language creoles conform to these predictions, this could simply reflect the word-order regularities
inherited from the contact languages. Work on emerging sign languages offers a more mixed picture. ABSL and KQSL are typically described as SOV languages but have more variable word order when the patient is human. Studies of NSL have reached varying conclusions,
in part because the stimuli that were used only rarely resulted in the production of both the agent and patient.</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121"> </span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">In this talk, I’ll present three lines of work bearing on these hypotheses: a published study on gestural language creation, some new data on transitive constructions in several
dialects of Chinese Sign Language (lead by Hao Lin) and ongoing work on Nicaraguan Sign Language (lead by Annemarie Kocab).</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121"> </span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">The results of all three programs undermine the word-order and agent-first hypotheses (at least in their simplest form). The findings however, strongly suggest that concepts
like agent and patient guide the emergence of language. Our ongoing work explores this possibility more systematically.</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Light",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Eva Wittenberg<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Light",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Department of Cognitive Science<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Light",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Central European University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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