2021年4月21日13:00—Marcus Taft：What masked form priming tells us about the difference between L1 and L2 lexical processing—港中文语言处理实验室

讲座一:4月21日/Marcus TaftSpeaker: Marcus TaftTitle: What masked form priming tells us about the difference between L1 and L2 lexical processingTime: 13:00 – 14:30, Wed, 21 April 2021            (Beijing, Hong Kong time)Venue: https://cuhk.zoom.us/j/779556638            https://cuhk.zoom.cn/j/779556638

About the speakerMarcus Taft is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, where has been located for more than 40 years. He is the author of well over 100 publications, including the book Reading and the Mental Lexicon. His research looks at the cognitive mechanisms involved in adult word comprehension, primarily lexical processes in reading, with the over-arching theme being the question of how readers make use of the internal structure of words in order to recognise them. How is the orthographic structure of a word represented in the "mental lexicon" and what are the optimal decoding strategies for reading words written in the particular orthography of one's language. In addition to his research on the English language, Marcus has published papers about lexical processing in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and French. In more recent years, he has been actively involved in research into bilingual processing, which is the topic of the current presentation. 
What masked form priming tells us about the difference between L1 and L2 lexical processing
Marcus TaftEmeritus Professor, School of Psychology, University of New South Wales
There is now considerable evidence that L2 English speakers show masked form priming (e.g., the masked presentation of pillow facilitates lexical decision responses to PILL relative to an orthographically unrelated control, and the same for thorough-ROUGH). L1 English speakers do not show this. My talk explores the basis for this difference between L1 and L2 speakers and, in so doing, provides suggestions for what L1 and L2 speakers might be doing differently when reading English words.
Virtual Psycholinguistics Forum: (https://cuhklpl.github.io/forum.html)

讲座二：5月5日/Robert J. HartsuikerSpeaker: Robert J. HartsuikerTitle: Syntactic blocking: When syntactic representations are not shared across languagesTime: 15:00 – 16:30, Wed, 5 May, 2021            (Beijing, Hong Kong time)Venue: https://cuhk.zoom.us/j/779556638            https://cuhk.zoom.cn/j/779556638

About the speakerRobert J. Hartsuiker is professor of Cognitive Psychology at the Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University. He is the President-Elect of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology. He was the editor in chief of the Journal of Cognitive Psychology and an associate editor of Psychological Science. His research focuses on language production and comprehension, control and monitoring of speech, and multilingualism. He has published more than 100 journal papers on these topics in a wide array of journals, including Psychological Bulletin, Psychological Science, Cognition, and Cognitive Psychology. His work is cited more than 9000 times on Google Scholar; his H-index is 48. 
Syntactic blocking: When syntactic representations are not shared across languagesRobert J. HartsuikerDepartment of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University
Cross-linguistic structural priming suggests that proficient bilinguals share syntactic representations across their languages (e.g., Hartsuiker, Pickering, & Veltkamp, 2004). Such priming can occur even when the syntactic structures are not fully identical in the two languages. The shared representations must therefore abstract across such differences. What then determines whether representations are or are not shared across languages? In this talk, I will propose the syntactic blocking hypothesis, according to which a structure S in one language and a counterpart S’ in another language can only have a shared representation if neither language distinguishes between S and S’. Thus, priming can occur between a passive with SVO structure in one language and one with SOV structure in another language, but not if either language allows both word orders. In that case, the need to distinguish between different word orders blocks the formation of an abstract representation for the passive that is independent of word order. I will discuss structural priming studies using picture description, translation, and artificial language learning tasks that are consistent with the syntactic blocking hypothesis. I will conclude with suggestions to further test this hypothesis.
Virtual Psycholinguistics Forum: (https://cuhklpl.github.io/forum.html)