BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:17864-ffbe084fa06275c5c3d42468a055c5c5@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260904T064402Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260501T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260501T103000 SUMMARY:Center for Language Science Speaker Series: Chaleece Sandberg DESCRIPTION:\nIndividuals with aphasia often exhibit difficulty producin g accurate complex syntactic structures (agrammatism). Syntactic priming —the tendency to use a recently heard syntactic structure—is an avenue f or therapeutic intervention in this population. Traditional priming para digms rely on the implicit prediction error inherent in a repetition tas k. Recently\, Jackson and colleagues (Gruter et al.\, 2021\; under revie w\; Jackson &\; Gruter\, under review) have shown that L2 learners be nefit more from a task that more explicitly induces prediction errors—gu essing what their interlocutor will say—than from the traditional repeti tion priming. In this talk\, Chaleece Sandberg will discuss her lab’s re cent work extending this paradigm to monolingual older adults and people with aphasia to examine the effect of increased prediction error on syn tactic priming. The results of this work are expected help in the develo pment of more effective therapeutic techniques for agrammatism in aphasi a.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/cls-speaker-seri es-chaleece-sandberg/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Individuals wit h aphasia often exhibit difficulty producing accurate complex syntactic structures (agrammatism). Syntactic priming—the tendency to use a recent ly heard syntactic structure—is an avenue for therapeutic intervention i n this population. Traditional priming paradigms rely on the implicit pr ediction error inherent in a repetition task. Recently, Jackson and coll eagues (Gruter et al., 2021; under review; Jackson & Gruter, under r eview) have shown that L2 learners benefit more from a task that more ex plicitly induces prediction errors—guessing what their interlocutor will say—than from the traditional repetition priming. In this talk, Chaleec e Sandberg will discuss her lab’s recent work extending this paradigm to monolingual older adults and people with aphasia to examine the effect of increased prediction error on syntactic priming. The results of this work are expected help in the development of more effective therapeutic techniques for agrammatism in aphasia.

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