Interview with Dr. Brian MacWhinney

IASCL Media Coordinator Dr. Katie Von Holzen interviewed Dr. Brian MacWhinney, Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University and longtime IASCL member. They talk about Geology, Emergentism, CHILDES and TalkBank, favorite IASCL memories and looking forward to the 2024 Congress in Prague.
00:00 Introduction
01:55 LLMs and child language
03:55 Brian MacWhinney, Geologist
06:09 Geology and language structure
09:50 Emergentism and the critical period
12:58 CHILDES origins
15:56 CHILDES challenges
17:43 The future of the TalkBank family
19:57 Favorite IASCL memory
22:26 Preview IASCL 2024 in Prague
25:23 Advice for Early Career Researchers
28:44 The future of language acquisition research