【外语学院】英国约克大学荣休教授Helen Goodluck系列学术讲座通知

来源：发布日期：2018-04-04

Lectures on Language Acquisition Research

BIT School of Foreign Languages

Prof. Helen Goodluck

Emeritus Professor, University of York

　　The lectures will focus on current, controversial questions in language acquisition research: Is the ability to learn language a unique human capacity, distinct from other cognitive abilities? The speaker will argue that the answer is yes. Does the changing grammar of the child argue in favor of the development of the capacity for language? The speaker will suggest the data is compatible with a position of continuity: the child’s grammar is always a possible human language.

No.	Title	Time	Location
1	The impact of Chomskyan generative grammar on language acquisition research	10 April 9:30-11:30	Room 515, Central Teaching Building, BIT (乐动（中国）中心教学楼515)
2	Is language acquisition “instantaneous”?	11 April 9:30-11:30
3	Can language acquisition data choose between theories?	13 April 9:30-11:30
4	Case study 1: The acquisition of movement	16 April 9:30-11:30
5	Case study 1 continued: The acquisition of relative clauses	16 April 14:00-16:00
6	Case study 2: The acquisition of PRO	17 April 9:30-11:30
7	Language in special populations	18 April 9:30-11:30
8	Language acquisition and language processing	23 April 9:30-11:30
9	Potential initial analysis of results of Chinese relative clause study	24 April 9:30-11:30

About the speaker:
Prof. Helen Goodluck is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York in Britain. Her research interests include First Language Acquisition and Adult Language Processing. Prof. Goodluck has published articles in such journal as Language, Journal of Linguistics, Lingua, Journal of Child Language, Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. She has also published Language Acquisition: A Linguistic Introduction (1991), Theoretical Issues in Language Acquisition: Continuity and Change in Development (1991), Island Constraints: Theory, Acquisition and Processing (1992), The Role of Formal Features in Second Language Acquisition (2007), and has edited a special issue of Language and Cognitive Processes (2013), devoted to the possibility of reducing syntactic phenomena to facts about language processing.