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<b>Subject:</b> [cogsci] Distinguished Speaker Lecture | Morten Christiansen, Cornell University | Monday, April 15, 6:30 pm, 118 Psychology.</font>
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<span style="color:black; font-size:16px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont">We are pleased to be welcoming Professor Morten Christiansen from Cornell University on Monday, April 15th to give the final lecture in the 2018-2019 Cognitive
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his visit, please email Kaylin Smith (<a href="mailto:smit2297@msu.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="LPlnk278612">smit2297@msu.edu</a>) by Friday, April 12th to arrange a time. </span></div>
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Language evolution through the bottleneck: From milliseconds to millennia</center>
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<strong style="margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px; outline:0px; font-size:14.4px; vertical-align:baseline; background:transparent">Dr. Morten Christiansen, Cornell University</strong></h3>
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Monday, April 15 at 6:30 p.m., 118 Psychology</p>
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Over the past few decades, the language sciences have seen a shift toward explaining language evolution in terms of cultural evolution rather than biological adaptation. This work has demonstrated how various nonlinguistic biases amplified by cultural transmission
across generations, along with pressures from interactions between individuals within each generation, may help explain many facets of linguistic structure observable in today’s languages. In this talk, I discuss the possible contribution to language evolution
of a fundamental constraint on processing, the Now-or-Never bottleneck: during normal linguistic interaction, we are faced with an immense challenge by the combined effects of rapid input, short-lived sensory memory, and severely limited sequence memory. To
overcome the Now-or-Never bottleneck, language users must learn to compress and recode language input as rapidly as possible into increasingly more abstract levels of linguistic representation. This perspective has profound implications for the nature of language
processing, acquisition, and evolution. To illustrate, I present results from a lab-based cultural evolution experiment and psycholinguistic experimentation. Together, these studies suggest that cultural evolution, as constrained by basic chunk-based learning
and processing mechanisms, has promoted the emergence of structure in language that helps alleviate the challenge posed by the Now-or-Never bottleneck.</p>
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