Category: talks
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Florian Jaeger visiting next week
T. Florian Jaeger (Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Univ. of Rochester) will be visiting next Thursday and Friday, May 7-8. He will be giving a talk in the Language, Cognition and Computation Workshop (abstract to come) on Friday at 3:30 in the Karen Landahl Center. He will also be giving two statistics tutorials: One (Thursday) on…
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Yu at Stony Brook
Alan Yu will be giving a colloquium at SUNY Stony Brook this Friday, May 1. The title of his talk is “Toward a rational account of channel bias.”
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Spring and colloquia are in the air
Spring 2009 colloquia are off and running. This full and final season of talks in the 2009 colloquium series began on April 2 with by MIT’s Adam Albright on “Rabbitometry vs. rabbitography: phonetic faithfulness and affix-by-affix differences in derived words.” Coming up in the following weeks are several other fantastic speakers, including April 30: Teresa Satterfield, University of…
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Fun, fun, fun: QP Fest next week
Mark your calendar! This year’s QP-Fest will take place on March 16-17. The tentative program is as follows: March 16 (Location: Harper 140) 1-1:30 Christina Weaver: Negation in Luganda 1:30-2 Nassira Nicola: Information Status and Sentence Structure in Home Sign 2-2:30 Arum Kang: The Role of Prosody in Semantic/Syntactic Disambiguation in Korean Break 3-3:30…
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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…