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DESCRIPTION:Date: Friday\, February 24\, 2023\nTime: 12:00pm – 1:00pm\nLoca
 tion: SCSB Conference room 46-6011 + Zoom Meeting (https://mit.zoom.us/j/91
 754454830)\n\nSpeaker: Stephan Meylan\, Ph.D.\nAffiliation: Postdoctoral As
 sociate\, MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences\, Computational Psycholinguistic
 s Lab\n\nTalk title: Child-directed listening: How adults understand what y
 oung children say\n\nAbstract: Research on child language acquisition has t
 raditionally focused on children’s cognitive processes. However\, early com
 munication and coordination also depends on the cognitive processes of adul
 t caregivers\, as they must infer what children are trying to communicate e
 ven when children’s early speech differs substantially from adult speech. I
 n this talk\, I will show how a suite of hybrid Bayesian / neural network m
 odels of spoken word recognition can help us understand how adults do this.
  These models reveal that adults rely minimally on the acoustic signal prod
 uced by children\, and instead heavily depend on prior beliefs about what c
 hildren are likely to say\, along with contextual cues. I’ll show some of t
 he differences between adult word recognition of the speech of typically-de
 veloping children and the one child in the sample with an ASD diagnosis\; f
 inally\, I’ll conclude by discussing the consequences of positing an infere
 ntially-powerful adult listener for theories of first language acquisition.
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LOCATION:Simons Center Conference Room 46-6011\, 46-6011
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SUMMARY:SCSB Lunch Series: Child-directed listening: How adults understand 
 what young children say
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