Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics

The current work of our research group focuses on the acquisition and representation of grammatical categories, and how the predictive nature of language processing may be a part of their acquisition. I will demonstrate several lines of our experimental research on language processing and acquisition, including the work on whether and how Czech children and adults use the phonological shape of words to learn their gender categorization. I will focus on how corpus data on words and their forms might inform our research and the hypotheses we test in human language users and learners.

*** The talk will be delivered in person (MFF UK, Malostranské nám. 25, 4th floor, room S1) and will be streamed via Zoom. For details how to join the Zoom meeting, please write to sevcikova et ufal.mff.cuni.cz ***