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DESCRIPTION:It’s coming soon … our annual gathering to share and showcase o
 ur research activities and accomplishments with fellow SCSD students and f
 aculty.  \n\nAgenda:\n\n1:00pm Guest speaker: Diana Van Lancker Sidtis\n\n
 Formulaic language: The new kids on the block? - see below for more inform
 ation\n\n2:30pm Break for refreshments \n\n3:00pm Blitz talks by SCSD stud
 ents and faculty\n\n3:50pm Blitz prizes & other students awards\n\n\nAs pa
 rt of the SCSD Research Day 2017\, we are pleased to have Diana Van Lancke
 r Sidtis as our guest speaker.\n\nFormulaic language:  The new kid on the 
 block?\n\nThe lateralization of speech and language to the left cerebral h
 emisphere (LH) has been a cornerstone of neurological localization since t
 he 19th century. Less well recognized is that while propositional language
  (lexical items ordered by grammatical rules) can be devastated by LH dama
 ge\, many afflicted individuals retain a vast assortment of fixed expressi
 ons. The preserved ability to produce properly articulated and intoned utt
 erances such as Hello\, You never know\, represents competence for formula
 ic language\, constituting about one fourth to one half of normal conversa
 tional interaction. Linguistic and experimental perspectives suggest that 
 formulaic language consists of a large number and great variety of unitary
  expressions\, stored in memory and processed as coherent\, stereotyped fo
 rms (specific words\, word order and prosody) with conventionalized meanin
 gs and distinctive conditions for use.\n\nPropositional and formulaic lang
 uage differ in neurological organization. Following LH damage\, proportion
 s of formulaic expressions (FEs) in spontaneous speech are significantly i
 ncreased over those of healthy speakers. In contrast\, a diminution of FEs
  occurs in right hemisphere or subcortical damage. Over-abundance of formu
 laic language in Alzheimer’s disease\, when subcortical nuclei remain func
 tional\, further support a role of the basal ganglia in FE production. Rec
 ent examination of spontaneous speech obtained during PET scanning show co
 mplementary cortical-subcortical patterns for these two modes of language 
 use. Convergent observations lead to a dual process model of language\, pr
 oposing that novel language is represented in the LH and formulaic languag
 e is modulated by a right hemisphere-subcortical system.  Compelling impli
 cations arise from this model for evaluation and rehabilitation of languag
 e disorders in children and adults.\n
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LOCATION:Meakins Auditorium\, 5th floor - Room 521 \, McIntyre Medical Buil
 ding\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3G 1Y6\, 3655 promenade Sir William Osler
SUMMARY:SCSD Research Day 2017
URL:/scsd/channels/event/scsd-research-day-2017-282608
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