The LLC Speaker Series presents Monique Charest

Interference during lexical access for language production: Considerations for typical language development and developmental language impairments The process of selecting and retrieving words for production is sometimes helped by prior naming events, and sometimes hindered. Patterns of interference in naming have been observed in both adults and children, although the methods and interpretations have differed somewhat. Recent work with adults has focused on interference as a manifestation of learning within lexical networks; whereas work with children has focused on interference as a manifestation of temporary, ongoing activation of prior targets. Moreover, reports from varied tasks suggest that interference phenomena contribute to the profile of speakers with language learning impairments, but the nature of these effects remain poorly understood. In this presentation, Monique Charest will discuss research on the manifestation of interference phenomena during naming in children with typical and impaired language development. She will discuss outcomes of a recent study of young children with typical development that examined lexical interference from the learning perspective adopted in the adult literature. She will also discuss pilot outcomes from ongoing research examining temporal and semantic effects on interference in children with specific language impairment, and will consider what these lines of work offer for thinking about the effects of experience on the lexical system during development, and for thinking about the profiles of children with language impairments.

Location:

Craigie Hall – CHD 420 – Language Research Centre

Speaker:

Monique Charest, University of Alberta

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