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DESCRIPTION:CRLMB Distinguished Lecture by Dr. Lila Gleitman (U. Penn)\nAbs
 tract:\nAs a precondition for entering the human community\, infants must
 \nefficiently and rapidly acquire the meanings of words Their first\nproce
 dures for doing so rely heavily on noticing the contingencies\nbetween the
  occurrence of a sound (e.g. 'shoe') with something\nobserved (say\, a sho
 e) in the environment. Because these links\nbetween sound and interpretive
  cue are notoriously uncertain and\nsometimes misleading\, the procedure h
 as widely been conceived as an\nassociative-statistical one in which the c
 hoice of meaning is\ndetermined across several examples by recovering the 
 features that\nrecur most systematically with the sound (cf.\, Hume\, 1740
 ). Recent\nexperimental results appear to support this position (Yu &\nSmi
 th\, 2007\, inter alia). But several commentators and\nexperimenters have 
 pointed to the sheer rate and relative\nerrorlessness of word learning as 
 favoring a more insightful\,\none-trial\, learning procedure that has been
  called 'fast mapping'\n(Carey\, 1978). In this talk I will present new ex
 periments in word\nlearning that strongly support the latter view. Discuss
 ion turns on\nthe reasons why -- experiments aside -- this must be true.\n
 Prominent among such reasons is the 'poverty of the stimulus'\nproblem tha
 t also motivates theorizing about language acquisition\nat levels below (p
 honetics) and above (syntactic) the word\nform.\n \nBiography\nDr. Gleitma
 n  is a Professor Emerita of Psychology and\nLinguistics at the University
  of Pennsylvania\, and an\ninternationally-renowned expert on language acq
 uisition and\ndevelopmental psycholinguistics.\nThe impact of her research
  in language acquisition has been\nrecognized by numerous organizations\, 
 and she has been elected as a\nfellow in the American Psychological Associ
 ation\, the Association\nfor Psychological Science\, the Society of Experi
 mental\nPsychologists\, the American Association for the Advancement of\nS
 cience\, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and the\nNational Aca
 demies of Science.\n \n \n
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LOCATION:Leacock Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2T7\, 855 rue Sherbroo
 ke Ouest
SUMMARY: If the shoe fits: Earliest steps in vocabulary acquisition
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