Our first LEC meeting of the new academic year is next Tuesday in DSB 1.17 at 11.00-12.30. Sean will be giving us a talk about his current PhD topic.

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“The implications of Bilingualism for Language Evolution”

Children are good at learning multiple languages simultaneously. However, learning an extra language leaves the speaker potentially no more expressive at a cost of an increase in the amount of learning required. How can we account for the evolution of this bilingual ability? Would early populations of language users most likely be monolingual or bilingual? I look at how bottom-up and top-down approaches lead to different answers to these questions.

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New students on the ELC MSc are most welcome to come along if they wish. We’re really quite friendly.

Cheers,
Simon

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