Visualizing and Quantifying How Language Is Layered and Ordered In Time

Visualizing and Quantifying How Language Is Layered and Ordered In Time

Date & Time:  Thursday, October 24, 11:00am – 12:30pm

Location: Room 207, Anthropology and Sociology Building, 6303 North West Marine Drive

Description: Human language is a complex and sequentially-ordered behavior. This talk presents recurrence quantification as a central tool in understanding the processes that underlie linguistic behavior.

Human language is a complex and sequentially-ordered behavior. It has many layers of organization, often referred to as ‘duality of patterning’ and ‘generativity.’ It is also multimodal, in that any performance of language typically invokes many types of behavior. Consider face-to-face interaction. It involves the deployment of low-level behaviors, like social eye gaze, and higher-level behaviors, such as the sequencing of ideas during conversation—and everything in between. A recent approach to analyzing the dynamics of systems, recurrence analysis, offers exciting visualization and quantification of systems that are ordered complexly in time.

Ticketing Information: This is a FREE event. For more information, visit http://cognaction.org/rick/

Open to Public, Recommended For Anyone Interested In Language and Cognitive Science!