Month: March 2011
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Rebekah Baglini: Bloch Fellow
3rd-year PhD student Rebekah Baglini has been named the 2011-13 Bloch Fellow. This award goes to the person who is, in the eyes of the LSA Summer Institute fellowship selection committee, “the most promising applicant for fellowships” at the Institute. The Bloch Fellow receives an institute fellowship (obviously), and then serves as a voting member…
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Jason Riggle at UCSD
Jason Riggle just spoke at the linguistics colloquium of the University of Southern California, San Diego, on Generative models of variation within and between languages, the abstract of which follows: In this talk, I evaluate three proposed mechanisms for generative models of variation within language: (i) sampling from partially specified grammars, (ii) grammars with noisy…