Bob Frank (Yale) – computational, syntax
Haines 118Linguistic Productivity in Neural Networks: Representation and Inductive BiasA fundamental fact about human language is its productivity: speakers are able to understand and produce forms different from those that they...
Colloquium Speaker-Bob Frank (Yale)
Haines 118computational, syntax
Lisa Davidson (NYU) – phonetics
Haines 118Maura O’Leary’s student colloquium talk- It’s About Time: A long-expected relationship between nouns and tense
Haines 118It's About Time: A long-expected relationship between nouns and tenseMaura O'Leary (UCLA)It has been well established that the property times of verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositional phrases, participle phrases, and relative...
Canaan Breiss’s student colloquium talk
Public Affairs 1222Colloquium: Some Half-Truths and Interim Conclusions about Liaison- Anne-Michelle Tessier, UBC
Haines A25A very complicated issue in understanding morpho-phonological alternations concerns those phenomena that are pervasive, frequent, and phonotactically-motivated, and yet exceptionful and lexically-sensitive. To what extent are such processes, that apply idiosyncratically...
Colloquium: Modeling early phonetic learning from natural speech- Naomi Feldman, University of Maryland
Haines Hall A25Theories of language acquisition have typically been developed using an idealization of the phonetic learning problem. For example, phonetic category learning models have used input that is much less variable...