Language, Cognition and Communication Across the Lifespan
Four invited lectures exploring speech production, lexical comprehension and the neural mechanisms underlying information processing across the lifespan.
This academic symposium features four invited presentations examining language, cognition and neural processing across the lifespan in a range of communicative contexts. The presentations address speech production, lexical comprehension and the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying self-referential processing. The four presentations examine speech fluency and disfluency across linguistic and clinical populations, as well as developmental and age-related differences in cognitive processing. The first presentation adopts a corpus-based approach to examine patterns of speech disfluency in typically fluent Czech speakers and individuals with aphasia. The second explores age-related differences in lexical ambiguity resolution, with particular attention to how younger and older adults integrate contextual information during word comprehension. The third investigates differences between narrative and conversational speech in Mandarin-speaking children, including those with language impairments. The final presentation investigates the neural correlates of self-referential processing during adolescence, examining how individuals evaluate themselves in social and academic contexts. Researchers, educators and students interested in linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive neuroscience, language development, aging and communication disorders are warmly invited to participate. Presentations will be delivered primarily in English. Speakers are listed in the order of their presentations on the program. Photographs will be taken during the symposium to document the event and meet funding requirements.
Event Details
Date and time | Friday, 4 December 2026, 09:00–13:00
Venue | Humanities Hall, National Taiwan University （臺大人文館）
Language | Primarily in English. English and Mandarin may both be used during the Q&A and discussion.
Registration
Admission is free, and advance registration is required. Please register by 27 November 2026 at 23:59 (Taipei time). Your registration is complete once you receive a confirmation email from the organizers.
https://forms.gle/gzyebztYTJkg1fFD6
Speaker
Professor Michal Láznička
University of Birmingham, UK
Department of Linguistics, Charles University
Professor I-Ting Chiu
Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences
Professor Pei-Wen Yeh
Department of Psychology, Kaohsiung Medical University
Dr. Po-Heng Chen
Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Taiwan University
Organized by
Phonetics and Psycholinguistics Lab, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Chengchi University
Co-organized by
Ministry of Education
University Academic Alliance in Taiwan (UAAT)
Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Taiwan University
Further information is available on the event website.