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LOC colloquium – Gloria Mellesmoen

Gloria Mellesmoen will give an in-person LOC colloquium on November 24th 3:30-5pm, 2023. Title: Miniature, Messy, and Meaningful: Diminutive Reduplication in Salish Abstract: A diminutive morpheme signals that something is small or little in some dimension, which can include the size of an object (“small cat”) or amount of a quality (“a little clever”). Diminutivity […]

Colloquium – Anna Mai (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)

Anna Mai (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) will present a virtual colloquium on November 30th 9-10:30am, 2023. Title: Phonological structure in the neural response to speech Abstract: Spoken language comprehension requires abstraction of linguistic information from speech, but the interaction between auditory and linguistic processing of speech remains poorly understood. In this talk, I will […]

Research Seminar – Molly Babel, Line Lloy, Khushi Patil, and Khia Johnson

Molly Babel, Line Lloy, Khushi Patil and Khia Johnson will give a research seminar. Title: Language-general versus language-specific processes in bilingual voice learning Abstract: Language experience confers a benefit to voice learning, a concept described in the literature as the language familiarity effect (LFE). A divide in the literature is whether and how generative language […]

Research Seminar – Joash Gambarage

Joash Gambarage will give a research seminar. This talk will happen online. Please fill out the RSVP form for Zoom information. Title: Selection and Projection of Tense and Aspect in Bantu: data from Swahili and Nata Abstract: This talk provides a syntactic analysis of Tense and Aspect of two Eastern Bantu languages, Swahili and Nata. […]

Research Seminar – Darko Odic (UBC Psychology)

Dr. Darko Ordic (UBC Psychology) will give an in-person research seminar 3:30-4:30pm, January 26th, 2024. The title and abstract for the talk can be found below.   Title: How much language is in thought? Abstract: In this talk, I present recent work from my lab arguing that language acts as instructions for directing – but […]

Colloquium – Jennifer Hay (University of Canterbury)

Jennifer Hay (University of Canterbury) will present a virtual colloquium on February 16th 3:30-5:00pm, 2024. Please fill out the RSVP form for Zoom information. Title: What do non-Māori speakers in New Zealand know about the Māori language? Abstract: Most New Zealanders do not speak or understand the Māori language, yet are nonetheless exposed to the […]

Research Seminar – Katie Sardinha

Dr. Katie Sardinha will give an in-person research seminar 3:30-4:30pm, March 1st, 2024. The title and abstract for the talk can be found below. Title: Using an inductive learning approach to train speaker-linguists in Kwak’wala grammar Abstract: In this talk, I’ll discuss how we are using an inductive learning paradigm to teach Kwak’wala sentence structure. […]

Colloquium – Brian Dillon (UMass Amherst)

Dr. Brian Dillon (UMass Amherst) will present a virtual colloquium on March 8th 3:30-5:00pm, 2024. Please fill out the RSVP form for Zoom information. Title: Evaluating expectation-based comprehension with the Syntactic Ambiguity Processing benchmark Abstract: Prediction has been proposed as an overarching principle that explains human information processing in language and beyond. In this talk, […]

Colloquium – Kathryn Davidson (Harvard University)

Dr. Kathryn Davidson (Harvard University) will give a colloquium in person on March 15th 3:30-5:00pm, 2024. Title: Information structure insights from sign language anaphora Abstract: Notions of topic and focus have been well-studied in sign languages, which – like many spoken languages –  tend to have word orders highly influenced by information structural considerations, along with […]