Two sides of language comprehension

Language can be studied as a Fodorian module: How does a system work, what are its rules or constraints, and how can we formalize them? But language can also be studied as part of our overall cognition: How do the rules and constraints a language contains allow us to understand each others’ thoughts, and how can we know the shape of these thoughts?

In my work as a psycholinguist, I like to work from both perspectives. In this talk, I will present data from experiments conducted over the last ten years that start to answer these questions using different methods, and studying different phenomena, from processing light verb constructions to understanding time in events.

Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85250575838?pwd=M21okObuBY0UjWZgED4b18ms2O4JXr.1