BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news42@english.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20180326T173155 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20180412T141500 SUMMARY:What the eyes tell us about bilingual language processing in the li nguistically diverse city of Montreal DESCRIPTION:Eye movement investigations have long been crucial for building a comprehensive understanding of the cognitive and perceptual processes t hat support reading and other language processes because of their naturaln ess and great temporal precision (reviewed in Whitford\, Pivneva\, & Titon e\, 2015\; Titone\, Whitford\, Lijewska\, & Itzhak\, 2016). Indeed\, most of what we know about psycholinguistics has been deeply informed by eye mo vement reading data\, including the fundamentals of word processing\, cont extual effects\, grammatical interpretation\, and higher-level aspects of language such as figurative or emotional effects on language.\\r\\nOf rele vance here\, much of this work has historically treated all bilinguals as the same\, and has less frequently investigated how individual differences among bilinguals in language experience\, or potentially language environ ment\, impact processing. In this talk\, I present some of the work from m y laboratory that has used eye movement measures to study individual diffe rences in bilingual reading in different populations. These populations in clude healthy bilingual younger adults\, but also include bilingual older adults.  Much of this work focusses on the interplay between local word-l evel processing and more global influences of sentence context\, such as w hat arises from variations in sentential constraint or the interpretive de mands of emotional language\, though more recent work has examined eye mov ement measures of what people notice when they view images taken from the linguistic landscape of Montreal (Vingron\, Gullifer\, Hamill\, Leimgruber \, & Titone\, 2017\; Leimgruber\, Vingron\, & Titone\, in press). X-ALT-DESC:Eye movement investigations have long been crucial for building a comprehensive understanding of the cognitive and perceptual processes th at support reading and other language processes because of their naturalne ss and great temporal precision (reviewed in Whitford\, Pivneva\, &\; T itone\, 2015\; Titone\, Whitford\, Lijewska\, &\; Itzhak\, 2016). Indee d\, most of what we know about psycholinguistics has been deeply informed by eye movement reading data\, including the fundamentals of word processi ng\, contextual effects\, grammatical interpretation\, and higher-level as pects of language such as figurative or emotional effects on language.\nOf relevance here\, much of this work has historically treated all bilingual s as the same\, and has less frequently investigated how individual differ ences among bilinguals in language experience\, or potentially language en vironment\, impact processing. In this talk\, I present some of the work f rom my laboratory that has used eye movement measures to study individual differences in bilingual reading in different populations. These populatio ns include healthy bilingual younger adults\, but also include bilingual o lder adults. \; Much of this work focusses on the interplay between lo cal word-level processing and more global influences of sentence context\, such as what arises from variations in sentential constraint or the inter pretive demands of emotional language\, though more recent work has examin ed eye movement measures of what people notice when they view images taken from the linguistic landscape of Montreal (Vingron\, Gullifer\, Hamill\, Leimgruber\, &\; Titone\, 2017\; Leimgruber\, Vingron\, &\; Titone\, in press). DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20180412T160000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR