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SUMMARY:Grammar as a Maturationally Controlled Behavior: Minimality in lan
 guage Development and Impairment - Maria Garraffa (Heriot-Watt University)
DTSTART:20180125T163000Z
DTEND:20180125T183000Z
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CONTACT:Giulia Bovolenta
DESCRIPTION:In his seminal book on the “Biological Foundations of Langua
 ge” Eric Lenneberg describes four hallmarks for language acquisition\, d
 efined as a maturationally controlled emergence behavior (MCB): (1) a regu
 lar sequence of milestones correlated with age and other developmental fac
 tors\; (2) an environmental stimulation as an opportunity for use\; (3) th
 e emergence of the behavior before of its use and (4) the evidence that th
 is is not a sign of a goal-directed practice. \n\nIn this talk\, a similar
  framework will be adopted to address the late emergence of grammatical ba
 sed intervention structures (long distance dependencies) as examples of MC
 B\, looking at potentialities of a grammatical behavior more than solely t
 o its representation. \nData from developmental language disorders and peo
 ple with aphasia will be presented\, investigating which internal changes 
 in the language organism rather than in the environment must at once endea
 vor grammar. \nThe role of the environmental stimulation will be then inte
 grated for the case of children growing up with more than one language\, w
 here grammatical based intervention structures can evolve differently comp
 are to monolinguals due to a more diverse set of grammatical options. \nFi
 nally a measure for tracking grammatical development of intervention struc
 tures based on evidence from structural priming will be proposed for the i
 nvestigation of the deficit in language implicit learning mechanisms in ch
 ildren with developmental language disorders (DLD). \n
LOCATION:GR-06/7\, Faculty of English\, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site)
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