Ponente invitad@: Amy M. Lieberman. Word learning in the visual modality

What: Word learning in the visual modality

Where: BCBL Auditorium and Auditorium zoom room (If you would like to attend to this meeting reserve at info@bcbl.eu)

Who: Amy M. Lieberman, PhD. Director, Doctoral Studies and Associate Professor, Wheelock College of Education & Human Development, Boston University, MA, US

When:  Wednesday, March 18th at 12:00 pm/noon.

Young children leverage a range of cues to map novel words onto their referents. While mechanisms of word learning have primarily been studied in children learning spoken language, deaf children learning a sign language such as American Sign Language (ASL) may differentially weight some cues based on the affordances of the visual modality. I will present a series of studies in which we investigate the attentional, linguistic, and referential cues that support joint attention and novel word learning in both monolingual ASL learners and bimodal bilingual learners. Using a range of approaches including observations of dyadic interaction, eye-tracking and behavioral experiments, I discuss how language learners adapt to the modality, language, and characteristics of the input when acquiring their early lexicons