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[행사/세미나] Topic: Professor Ian Cunnings's Colloquium Talk
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성균관대학교 영어영문학과 김나연교수님의 초청으로 Ian Cunnings 교수님의 Colloquium Talk 가 있습니다.
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Topic: Professor Ian Cunnings's Colloquium Talk
Time: 2025년 10월 21일 17:00 PM Seoul (2025년 10월 21일 09:00 AM London)
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Colloquium Talk - Professor Ian Cunning (University of Reading)
Individual Differences in First and Second Language Processing
Individual differences can inform our understanding of the factors that influence language processing (Kidd et al., 2018). Individual differences are important in research on both sentence processing in a first, native language (L1) learnt since birth, and also the variation observed in processing a second language (L2), learnt later in life (Cunnings, under review; Roberts, 2012). For example, in L1 sentence processing, examining individual differences can inform our understanding of how readers store and retrieve information from memory during comprehension (Yadav et al., 2022). In research on L2 sentence processing, different proposals have been made with regards to the extent to which L2 processing may differ to L1 processing (Clahsen & Felser, 2006, 2018; Cunnings, 2017; McDonald, 2006; Hopp, 2018). Examining individual differences is important in teasing apart whether predicted L1/L2 differences represent particular developmental stages or purported L2 end-states.
Whilst there are thus varied theoretical reasons to examine individual differences, the extent to which psycholinguistic tasks systematically measure individual variation in language processing has not been systematically examined (Cunnings & Fujita, 2021; James et al., 2018; Staub, 2021). In cognitive psychology, whether commonly used experimental tasks systematically measure individual variation has recently been questioned by Hedge et al. (2018) in what they dubbed the "reliability paradox", such that commonly used tasks in cognitive psychology, which include experimental tasks in psycholinguistics, may not necessarily constitute reliable measures for systematically measuring individual differences. This methodological issue has important implications for using individual differences to test key claims in L1 and L2 sentence processing.
In this talk, I will assess the extent to which different psycholinguistic tasks systematically measure individual differences in L1 and L2 sentence processing of different linguistic phenomena. The results indicate it cannot be taken for granted that psycholinguistic tasks systematically measure individual differences in L1 and L2 sentence processing. In examining individual differences in L1 and L2 sentence processing, it is as such important to first assess how well psycholinguistic tasks systematically measure such variation in the first place.