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S 中国科学院心理研究所 学术报告 Language learning in bilingual infants Similarities and differences in learning one or two languages in the crib Speaker: Prof. Nuria Sebastian Galles Vice President, European Research Council Department of Technology Universitat Pompeu Fabra Time: 10:00am – 11:30am Dr. Nuria Sebastian is currently the director of Speech Acquisition and Perception research group at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. She was member of the advisory group of the “Brain and Learning” initiative of the OECD from 2002 to 2006. She has been president of the European Society of Cognitive Psychology from 2010 to 2012. Her research focuses on the study of learning and language processing with a special emphasis on bilingual populations. She is interested in understanding how humans, both infants and adults, manage to learn a new language, and how leaning language is affected by constraints of the cognitive system and the social environment. She is also interested in comprehending how language acts as a strong social cue, cueing what information has been acquired. She is currently associated editor of The presentation Language Learning and Development, beofinLanguage EnglishLearning andwill editor Cognitive Neuroscience Series and member of numerous editorial boards including Development Science, Bilingualism, and Language and cognition. Date: Sep 7 (Mon), 2015 Venue: 心理所南楼一层 VIP 会议室 Abstract Studies of preverbal infants exposed to a bilingual environment have unveiled the existence of important similarities, but also significant differences in the way monolinguals-to-be and bilinguals-to- be solve the problem of language acquisition. In this talk I will review the evidence that shows how very young babies can differentiate the languages of their environment, how they learn the sounds of their languages and how they learn their very first words. These studies provide important clues on the nature of the successful solutions bilingual babies develop to learn two languages and to become competent adult bilingual speakers.