Janet Werker - "Thoughts on how rhythm might help babies break into language"
Channel: Laboratoire CinéMédias
Date: 2023-05-09

KILLAM INITIATIVE ON RHYTHM
https://killam-initiative.ca/

UdeM's intersectoral meetings on rhythm, designed jointly by the CinéMédias Laboratory and the Vice-Rector's Office for Research, Discovery, Creation and Innovation, offer multiple highlights where the winners of the 2018 Killam Prize, major institutional players, researchers, students and the general public can exchange and broaden their visions on this fundamental theme in an unprecedented way. Major conferences by the five laureates, round tables, poster sessions, film screenings, opening cocktails are just some of the events that punctuate these days. This formula thus offers opportunities to discuss in a formal or more intimate way the major methodological and structural issues in terms of research, pedagogy and funding that intersectorality represents, in all its relevance and difficulties.

DESCRIPTION

In this conference, Killam laureate Janet Werker underlines the crucial role of humans’ ability to synchronize to a variety of aspects of the external world and to entrain to constructions and representations that we create and to information that we learn. She focuses on topics such as rhythm and human interactions, rhythm and child development, and rhythm and language development. She also addresses the correlation between language and music. A question period open to the public closes this conference.

DATE: December 6th, 2019
Second Intersectoral Meetings on Rhythm Hosted by Université de Montréal : Sources of Rhythm

PARTICIPANTS

Janet Werker
Isabelle Peretz (moderator)