Programme

Thursday 21st September 2023 - Room 118, Chandler House

13:00: Workshop registration

13:15: Welcome and opening remarks (Rachael Hulme)

13:25: Short Empirical Presentations (15 mins + Q&A)

1) 13:25: Maria Korochkina, Royal Holloway – Apples and oranges: How does learning context affect novel word learning?

2) 13:45: Yuzhen (Rainy) Dong, University of Oxford – The influence of emotional context on novel word valence learning

3) 14:05: Christopher Edwards, University College London – Lexical and semantic diversity in speech and adult word learning

14:25: Coffee break

14:55: Short Empirical Presentations (15 mins + Q&A)

4) 14:55: Cheng-Yu Hsieh, Royal Holloway – Beyond Quantity of Experience: Exploring the Role of Semantic Consistency in Chinese Character Knowledge

5) 15:15: Jo Taylor, University College London – Anchoring does not boost the benefit of contextual diversity for learning word forms or generalising learned meanings to new contexts

15:35: Break

16:00: Keynote talk 1 (40 mins + Q&A) 

Limor Raviv (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) – How variability shapes learning and generalization across domains

16:45: Summary of Key Themes and Selection of Topics for discussion (Jo Taylor, Jenni Rodd)

17:00: Group Discussion & Feedback Session 1 (groups of 5-8 participants)

18:00: Drinks reception

19:00: Dinner

Friday 22nd September 2023 - Room G10, Chandler House

9:15: Workshop registration

9:30: Short Empirical Presentations (15 mins + Q&A)

6) 9:30: Ruth Corps, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics – Can contextual diversity be separated from word frequency during picture-naming?

7) 9:50: Rachael Hulme, Heriot-Watt University – Effects of diversity of narrative context on the learning of word forms and meanings

8) 10:10: Raphaël Fargier, Université Côte d’Azur – Situational variability in narrative contexts facilitates the learning and retention of novel words

10:30: Coffee break

11:00: Short Empirical Presentations (15 mins + Q&A)

9) 11:00: Lauren Schilling, Harvard Graduate School of Education – Grounding early word learning: Examining imageability and contextual diversity in child-directed texts

10) 11:20: Jinyu Shi, University of Oxford – A corpus-based investigation of Chinese classifiers in children’s book and child-directed speech

11) 11:40: Johannes Schulz, University of Oxford – The role of input variability in foreign language construction learning: a primary school intervention

12:00: Lunch break

13:00: Short Empirical Presentations (15 mins + Q&A)

12) 13:00: Gwen Brekelmans, Queen Mary University of London – The role of variability for the learning of non-native phoneme contrasts: A replication

13) 13:20: Candice Frances, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics – Contextual diversity improves new foreign language vocabulary learning: The mediating role of reading measures

13:40: Coffee break

14:10: Keynote talk 2 (40 mins + Q&A)

Rebecca Norman, University College London – The effects of contextual diversity on lexical processing: A scoping review

14:55: Break

15:10: Summary of Key Themes and Selection of Topics for discussion (Jo Taylor, Jenni Rodd)

15:25: Group Discussion & Feedback Session 2 (groups of 5-8 participants)

16:25: Concluding remarks (Jenni Rodd)