Department of Psychology 10th year Seminar / Speaker: Dr. Öğrt. Üyesi Ercenur Ünal

Title: Thinking and talking about sources of information 

Abstract:  It has long been recognized that language interacts with other cognitive systems. However, the nature and extent of these interactions is widely debated. In this talk, I will focus on the linguistic encoding of evidence for information (evidentiality) and how it relates to non-linguistic reasoning about information sources. In part one, I will examine how the acquisition of evidentiality is related to the development of source concepts in learners of Turkish − a language that grammatically encodes evidentiality. In part two, I will ask whether the way languages encode information sources affects source monitoring mechanisms in mature cognizers by comparing adult speakers of English and Turkish. 

Seminar Date: 19 December 2018 
Time: 11:00-12:30
Location: Çekmeköy Kampüsü Scola Building, Scola 231 Classroom