Category: talks
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Caponigro talk on Friday
The Semantics and philosophy of Language Workshop presents Ivano Caponigro, UCSD (joint work with Maria Polinsky, Harvard) Time: June 13, Friday, 11am Location: Landahl Center Seminar Room Most languages (including English) distinguish between relative clauses, embedded declarative clauses, and embedded interrogative clauses in various syntactic ways (e.g. complementizers, gaps, wh-words, extraction). The syntactic behavior matches…
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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…
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Slides from the Beginning Linguistic Research Talks
The speakers’ slides and handouts from the Beginning Linguistic Research Talks this May are now available here: http://home.uchicago.edu/~lemieux/LingResearch101.html If you have any questions, feel free to contact Alice Lemieux.
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Bobaljik Colloquium on Thursday
Getting ‘Better’: On Comparative Suppletion and Related Topics Jonathan Bobaljik University of Connecticut Location: Cobb 201 Time: 3:30pm I present and discuss four or five universals drawn from across-linguistic study of comparative and superlative morphology. Special attention is given to three generalizations regarding root suppletion in the comparative degree of adjectives (good-better, bad-worse). These generalizations,…
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CORRECTION: Bobaljik Colloquium Next Thursday (5/29)
Getting ‘Better’: On Comparative Suppletion and Related Topics Jonathan Bobaljik University of Connecticut I present and discuss four or five universals drawn from across-linguistic study of comparative and superlative morphology. Special attention is given to three generalizations regarding root suppletion in the comparative degree of adjectives (good-better, bad-worse). These generalizations, I contend, have a variety…