When: Friday, March 22, 2024, 3:00 PM - 6:00 PMWhere: Online
Our current knowledge of the psychology of language is heavily based on studies in English and related Indo-European languages. Overreliance on these related languages has resulted in a body of knowledge that may not extend to languages with different syntactic and morphological systems, thereby reducing the global impact of our research. This symposium highlights the recent contributions of Tagalog, an understudied Austronesian language from the Philippines, to our understanding of visual and auditory word processing, sentence processing, language acquisition, and causation.
As a part of Dave Kenneth Tayao Cayado’s PhD viva voce examination, he invited scholars around the world whose work on Tagalog has significantly contributed to our current knowledge of psycholinguistics and formal linguistics. The featured speakers include Dr. Samantha Wray from Dartmouth College, Dr. Jed Pizarro-Guevara from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Dr. Rowena Garcia from the University of Potsdam, and Dr. Yining Nie from San José State University.
Featured Presentations:
Can the visual system recognize broken and obscured morphemes?Dave Kenneth Tayao Cayado
Say that again: is reduplication hearing something twice?Dr. Samantha Wray
To what extent does Principle A guide reflexive processing in Tagalog?Dr. Jed Pizarro-Guevara
How do children learn who-did-what-to-whom in a symmetrical voice language?Dr. Rowena Garcia
What can Tagalog teach us about causation?Dr. Yining Nie