I am pleased to announce the 2017 Seminar cycle "Language acquisition
across languages and cultures", financed with the support of the Labex-IEC, within the program New Ideas (in Linguistics). All talks will be held at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, 29, rue d'Ulm, 75005, Paris. Attendance is free but places are limited. Recordings will be made available shortly after the talks, and linked through this site. Summary statement: Research on language acquisition has long sought to increase our understanding of how infants’ linguistic experiences shape language development. A stunning majority of studies on early language acquisition are based on the Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich and Democratic (WEIRD) children who are easily studied given the location of most research labs. The developmental conditions these children experience are far from being representative of the most common contemporary situation of humans, since a statistical majority of humans today are not rich and/or living in industrial societies; nor are they representative of the situation that humankind has experienced for most of its biological history, which is probably better captured by that of current-day hunter-gatherers. In this seminar cycle, we invite experts working on different aspects of language development to present an overview of ongoing non-WEIRD research. For more information, please visit: http://www.lscp.net/persons/acristia/2017laalc.html
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