Category: talks
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Talk by McDonough on May 27
Departmental Colloquium Documentation of tone in the Mackenzie Basin Dene languages Joyce McDonough University of Rochester Cobb 201 3:30PM As part of a study of the phonetics of the Dene languages, this talk examines the realization of tone in several Athabaskan, or Dene (as speakers prefer) languages in the Mackenzie Basin area of Canada, an…
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Talk by Clayards on May 7
Workshop on Language, Cognition, and Computation The role of phonetic detail, auditory processing and language experience in the perception of assimilated speech MEGHAN CLAYARDS (Communication Sciences and Disorders, McGill) Friday, May 7 at 3:30pm, in Harper 130 The speech signal is notoriously variable and complex. Not only do listeners cope well with this variability and…
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Talk by Wagner on May 6
Departmental Colloquium Information Structure Effects on Prosody: English vs. French Michael Wagner McGill University Cobb 201 2:30-4pm *NOTE NEW TIME* ABSTRACT: Germanic and Romance languages differ in how prosody is affected by information structure. Ladd (2008), e.g., observes contrasts between English and Italian that reveal differences in how argument structure and information structure affect prosody.…
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“Relatively” recent talk for CK
If you had the feeling that something was missing a few weeks ago, perhaps it’s because Chris Kennedy was gone off to Germany at the end of last month at the 2010 Conference of the German Society for Linguistics (DGfS). Chris gave a talk during that conference’s workshop on Subjective Meaning: Alternatives to Relativism, entitled “Where does…
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Pesetsky here next week
David Pesetsky (MIT) will be on campus next week on Thursday, March 4. He’ll give a talk on “Russian case morphology and the syntactic categories” (abstract below) at 10:30 a.m. He is also giving a different talk on islands (abstract here) at the University of Illinois at Chicago the following day. Abstract (for U. of C. talk) Sometimes it…