Topic situations and domain restriction      Lyn Frazier University of Massachusetts Amherst Topic Situations are discussed in several guises in the linguistics literature. Austinian Topic Situations (Austin, 1950) are familiar in...

Using Transparent Machine Learning to study Human Speech   Machine learning, the use of nuanced computer models to analyze and predict data, has a long history in speech recognition and...

In prominent theories pronouns are treated as having (in effect) descriptive content, to explain the possibility of anaphora on indefinites outside their binding domain. We discuss some data that appears...

Joe Pater (UMass). Faculty host: Claire Moore-CantwellZoom link will be available one week ahead of the talk.

Hannah Sande (Georgetown University). Faculty host: Ethan PooleZoom link will be available one week ahead of the talk.

Phonetic variability and natural class phonotacticsGillian Gallagher, NYUPhonological patterns are stated over classes of sounds, usually defined based on a shared phonetic property. Phonetic sound changes and phonetic variation, however, are...

Jessica Coon (McGill University). Faculty host: Harold Torrence.Zoom link will be available one week before the talk. Email the Colloquium Committee at uclacolloquium@gmail.com to be added to the listserv. For...

Molly Babel (UBC). Faculty host: Claire Moore-Cantwell.Zoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99599993759?pwd=NkQwQnRwNkpqWGRMTGV1dG1FbUxyUT09  Email the Colloquium Committee at uclacolloquium@gmail.com to be added to the listserv. For guest outside of UCLA, please submit an RSVP for colloquiums...

Prosodic context in speech perceptionWhen listeners process spoken language, they extract information about (1) segmental categories, defining the words intended by a speaker and (2) prosodic features, which convey information...