國立清華大學語言學研究所　新085次專題演講

講者：陳宗穎副教授 Prof. Tsung-Ying Chen (國立清華大學外國語文學系 Dept. of Foreign Languages & Literature, National Tsing Hua University)
講題：Reaction time as an objective awareness measure in artificial grammar learning experiments
時間：2022年11月16日（星期三），中午 12:30 開始
地點：人社院 B305 教室

摘要：

Artificial grammar learning (AGL) is an experimental paradigm that has been frequently adopted to test hypotheses of inductive language learning biases, which are assumed to be part of the unconscious, perhaps also innate, linguistic knowledge. However, previous AGL studies demonstrating some biased language learning for adult learners rarely supported their findings by measuring learners' awareness and took it for granted that target generalizations are acquired unconsciously with guidance of their implicit linguistic knowledge. Without awareness measures, there's always an alternative interpretation of adult learners' performance given the fact that adult learners frequently, if not always, rely on explicit learning, too. In this talk, my goal is to show how reaction time of grammaticality judgments and elicited productions in AGL studies could be used as an objective index of adult learners' awareness, which could help shed light on the nature of acquired linguistic knowledge and reach a more solid conclusion regarding hypothesized language learning biases.