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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 15, 2019 10:35 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [cogsci] Tonight @ 6:30 | Morten Christiansen | Cognitive Science Distinguished Speaker | 118 Psychology</font>
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<span style="color:black; font-size:16px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont">A reminder that Professor Morten Christiansen from Cornell University will be speaking tonight, Monday, April 15th, as part of the 2018-2019 Cognitive Science
Program Distinguished Speaker Series. <span class="gmail-m_-7018123518548316560contextualExtensionHighlight gmail-m_-7018123518548316560ms-font-color-themePrimary gmail-m_-7018123518548316560ms-border-color-themePrimary gmail-m_-7018123518548316560ident_291_380">
The talk is at 6:30 (please note different time) in 118 Psychology with a reception at 6.</span> The title and abstract for the talk are below.<br>
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Hope to see you tonight!<br>
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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 none; outline:currentcolor none 0px; font-size:14.4px; vertical-align:baseline; background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%">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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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">J. Devin McAuley, Ph.D.<br>
Professor of Psychology<br>
Director, Interdisciplinary Cognitive Science Program<br>
316 Physics Rd, Rm 282B<br>
Michigan State University<br>
East Lansing, MI 48824<br>
Email: <a href="mailto:dmcauley@msu.edu" target="_blank">dmcauley@msu.edu</a> </div>
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