Future Global Leadership (FGL) Program「外国人講師等招へい」事業
国際文化研究科言語総合科学コース講演会

Lecture 1：Aspectual coercion in non-native speakers of English

In semantics, the sentence “Sam coughed for an hour” is hypothesized to incur aspectual coercion, because cough is aspectually incompatible with for an hour. Previous psycholinguistic studies reported an extra processing cost in native English speakers. In this talk, I will report data from Korean, German, and Chinese speakers of English that reveal processing profiles different from native speakers.

Lecture 2：Reading bilingually: language switching costs in Cantonese-English bilinguals

Various degrees of bilingualism are prevalent in Hong Kong. This on-going research examines language-switching costs when bilinguals read sentences that alternate between Cantonese and English in coherent discourse. Behavioral data from forty-three proficient bilinguals show longer reading times when they switched from L2 English to L1 Cantonese than vice versa. The findings will be discussed with respect to mechanisms of inhibitory control and lexical access.

日時：2月5日（木）14:40~17:50
場所：東北大学川内キャンパス　川北合同棟531教室
講義・討論は英語で行われます。通訳はありません。
参加申し込み：江藤裕之　etoh@intcul.tohoku.ac.jp