16/10/2020, 16:00, Zoom
We will present results of the Early semantic development: Linking language development to emerging participation in social events project related also to Developmentally informed agent-based modeling of symbolic constraints in interaction project.
Title: Rooting language acquisition in interpersonal synchrony
Katharina J. Rohlfing, Iris Nomikou, Giuseppe Leonardi, and Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi
Abstract:
Commonly, the problem of learning a word is presented in an intrapersonal way: a child has to follow adult’s attention, and – once the referent is perceived – to map it onto a word. In this presentation, we will present an alternative and interpersonal approach (Rohlfing et al., 2016; Raczaszek-Leonardi et al., 2018): Word learning is not only a matter of the learner; instead, it is a joint and collaborative endeavor. This view affords not only a change of theoretically conceptualizing word learning but also a change of methods. Departing from our theoretical view, we provide examples of interpersonal synchrony, and thus joint collaborative endeavor, that can be measured in gaze (Nomikou et al., 2017) and verbal vocalizations (Leonardi et al., 2016). Whereas so far interpersonal synchrony was investigated mostly as unimodal, it should be considered as a multimodal phenomenon (Rohlfing et al., 2019). Analyzing a corpus of mother-child dyads and applying Cross Recurrence Quantification Analysis and frequent pattern mining, solutions to the assessment of human sequential behavior will be presented with respect to the questions of (i) how multimodal turn-taking spreads across different modalities, (ii) how it is co-constructed with a partner, and – in the long term – (iii) how language system emerges from interpersonal patterns.
The seminar will take place on Zoom.
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