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SUMMARY:To what extent does the acquisition of conceptual categories depen
 d on language? - Napoleon Katsos\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20110513T110000Z
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CONTACT:Thomas Lippincott
DESCRIPTION:Natural language quantifiers like 'all'\, 'none'\, 'most' and 
 'some' can be analysed in terms of set-theory to provide language-independ
 ent definitions. This analysis can be used to derive predictions about pro
 cessing and acquisition. In this talk I will present findings from a cross
 linguistic study on the acquisition of these quantifiers by monolingual ch
 ildren speaking one of 24 languages\, as well as bilingual children and ch
 ildren with Specific Language Impairment. The findings reveal a universal 
 pattern in the order of acquisition as predicted by the logical analysis. 
 This pattern is modulated by specific syntactic and lexical features of th
 e language being acquired. I will conclude with a discussion on the implic
 ations about the relation between linguistic and non-linguistic (esp. math
 ematical)cognition. 
LOCATION:FW26\, Computer Laboratory
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