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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Sarah Phillips: No escape from morphemes in the bilingual mind
DESCRIPTION:LOCATION CHANGE – Campbell Hall 2122A and Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/s/91305505603 \n  \nIn the bilingualism literature\, most agree that the bilingual lexicon contains elements from both languages that can be activated non-selectively during processing (Kroll et al.\, 2013). Popular models of the bilingual lexicon often take an emergentist approach\, such as Dijkstra & Van Heuven’s (2002) BIA+ model\, drawing direct connections between form and meaning. A strong interpretation of such models predicts language switch effects during processing due to a change in phonological form. Studies that manipulate language switching between non-composed words to understand the nature of language control often observe processing delays (e.g.\, Meuter & Allport\, 1999) and neural activation differences (e.g.\, Abutalebi et al.\, 2008). However\, manipulating language switching between composed words fails to elicit processing delays/activation differences (e.g.\, Phillips & Pylkkänen\, 2021). I argue that syntactic/semantic composition eliminates language switching effects by increasing the predictability of input via morphemes. By taking a syntagmatic approach to bilingual input\, I will present recent\, ongoing\, and planned work that (i) utilizes artificial language learning to develop a working model of how bilinguals develop morphemes from two languages\, and (ii) tests this working model in bilingual-developing children.
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-sarah-phillips/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Bronwyn Bjorkman: The puzzle of (apparently) phonologically motivated empty morphs
DESCRIPTION:  \nEmpty morphs are stable units of form that occur without any associated meaning or function\, the inverse of zero morphs. Some empty morphs seem to occur for phonological\, rather than morphological\, reasons. In Ndebele\, for example\, subminimal words can be augmented either by prefixing yi- or suffixing -na (Sibanda 2004: 113)—the former is plausibly a least-marked epenthetic syllable\, but the latter seems to be a fixed string (a morph) without any associated content. Such patterns pose a puzzle for a theory like Distributed Morphology\, just as in the more widely discussed case of (apparently) phonologically optimizing suppletive allomorphy: if phonology derivationally follows morphology\, as it does in standard DM\, morphological realization should not be constrained by phonological wellformedness. The puzzle posed by empty morphs is deeper\, however\, precisely because their emptiness means that there is no obvious morphosyntactic element for them to realize. This aspect of the puzzle is sharpened further in languages where the empty morph seems to be borrowed or repurposed from a morphologically contentful use elsewhere; in both Romanian and Armenian\, for example\, in certain contexts plural morphology occurs in non-plural contexts\, apparently to provide an extra syllable in words with monosyllabic roots (Steriade 2022 on Romanian; Arregi\, Myler\, & Vaux 2013 on Armenian). Here the question is not merely what the empty morph is realizing\, but how the morph can be inserted in the absence of morphosyntactic features that usually condition its occurrence. This talk explores the range of options for analyzing both ordinary empty morphs and morphs that are empty only in repurposed contexts\, focusing in particular how a purely realizational theory like DM could be modified to account for these patterns. \n  \nConference Room\, Campbell Hall 2122A/B \nZoom Link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92183308552
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-bronwyn-bjorkman/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Emily Bender: Synthetic text extruding machines: A linguist-eye view on their narrow range of applicability
DESCRIPTION:  \nSince the release of ChatGPT but also other large language models (Claude\, Bard\, LLaMA etc)\, the internet has been awash in synthetic text\, with suggested applications including robo-lawyers\, robo-therapists\, and robo-journalists. All of these applications present unacceptable risks because language models are nothing more than ungrounded text synthesis machines. In this talk\, I demystify language models through a discussion of their history and function and then overview the risks we identified in the Stochastic Parrots paper (Bender\, Gebru et al 2021) and those that have come to light since. Finally\, I explore what must hold for an appropriate use case for text synthesis. \nLocation – Haines Hall 220
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-emily-bender/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Yang Wang
DESCRIPTION:Location – Franz 1260
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-yang-wang/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:RESCHEDULED/CANCELLED - Colloquium Talk - Jake Aziz
DESCRIPTION:This event has been rescheduled/cancelled.
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-jake-aziz/
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