Category: colloquia

  • Keren Rice Colloquium Thursday

    University of Chicago Linguistics Colloquium Keren Rice, University of Toronto What determines morpheme order in the Athapaskan verb? March 5, 3:30-5:00pm, Cobb 201 Abstract: The surface order of morphemes in the verb word of Athapaskan languages has traditionally been considered to be idiosyncratic, stipulated by a template. In Rice 2000 I argued that what I…

  • Colloquia back in action this week

    After our holiday hiatus, this year’s colloquium series resumes with the first of four (so far) scheduled talks for the Winter quarter. Tania Ionin of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will be presenting on “The scope of English indefinites: an experimental investigation” (abstract here). As usual, this talk will take place on Thursday at 3:30…

  • Autumn colloquia wrapping up with Alicia Wassink

    For our final colloquium of 2008, we are delighted to host Alicia Wassink, associate professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Washington, who will be giving a talk on “The Development of Sociolinguistic Competence in Children” this Thursday, December 4, from 3:30-5:00 p.m. in Cobb 201. (See abstract here.) If you’re sorry to…

  • Autumn 2008 colloquia are underway!

    The Department of Linguistics was pleased to host Georgetown University’s Paul Portner last Thursday at our inaugural colloquium of the 2008-2009 series. This week, we will be having Diane Brentari of Purdue University giving a talk on tracking phonological emergence in sign languages. We eagerly anticipate the scheduled speakers for the Autumn colloquia and invite…

  • Livescu Colloquium

    Phonological Models in Automatic Speech Recognition Karen Livescu Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago Location: Cobb 201 Time: 3:30pm Abstract: The performance of automatic speech recognizers varies widely across contexts. Very good performance can be achieved on single-speaker, large-vocabulary dictation in a clean acoustic environment, as well as on small-vocabulary tasks with fewer constraints on the…