We try to hold regular Thursday
staff meetings at which there are presentations by visitors
or by members of the Haskins
staff.
Note: Unless indicated otherwise, all talks take place at 12:30 PM on
Thursdays in the Main Conference Room (#110) at
Haskins Laboratories
(300 George St., Suite 900, New Haven, CT).
Everything is subject to change. For up-to-date
information, contact Bruno Repp here at
Haskins Laboratories (203-865-6163, x236).
I will be away during May. At present, staff meeting events are
scheduled for May 1, 8, and 15. On May 1 there will be a Town Hall
Meeting, convened by Ken Pugh. On May 8 and 15 there will be talks by
Maria Pianos and Michael Coyne, respectively.
Previous talks are listed in the Staff Talk Archive
May 8,
12:30 PM
Haskins |
Maria Piñango, Yale University Linguistics
Broca's Agrammatism: Production, Comprehension and the
Architecture of Language
Abstract:
Comprehension and production deficits associated with
Broca's agrammatism have traditionally received non-converging
generalizations despite having in common the idea that the deficit has a syntactic source. Such a situation seems to suggest that the locus of the problem may not be in the linguistic representation itself but in its dynamic instantiation. Capitalizing on this insight, I present an alternative view whereby the production and comprehension patterns of impairment manifested in the syndrome stem from a unified processing-based source. Crucially, this view is built upon a linguistically-based processing model that takes syntactic representation to be a dynamic manifestation of sentence formation. This analysis and its implications will be discussed in the context not only of theories of cortical distribution of language, given the localizing value of Broca's aphasia agrammatism, but also of theories of language processing and representation.
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