Young Language Science Scholar: Anne L. Beatty-Martínez
“Bilingualism Reveals How Experience Shapes Language and the Brain” Variation in language experience plays an important role in our understanding of language learning and processing. Increasing evidence suggests that the ways in which bilinguals use their languages with different people and across distinct interactional contexts may contribute to observed variability in processing trajectories and outcomes.
Young Language Science Scholars Speaker Series 2025 Poster Session
Posters Comparing production and comprehension instruction for L2 acquisition of past-tense morphology Jordan Hansen, Carrie Jackson, and Catherine Kelly Error-based Syntactic Priming Effects in Neurologically Intact Middle-aged and Older Adults Parisa Osfoori, Chaleece Sandberg, and Carrie Jackson Age and Linguistic Experience Affects Cognitive Abilities: A Comparison Between Monolinguals and Bilinguals on Cognate Picture Naming and
Masoud Jasbi, Young Language Science Scholar, University of California, Davis
“How to Win the Debate: Nativism and Empiricism in the Acquisition of Logical Words” This talk revisits the longstanding debate between nativism and empiricism through a novel lens from the philosophy of science, alongside empirical data on children’s acquisition of disjunction and negation as case studies. Masoud Jasbi proposes that nativism and empiricism can be