Location: Haines Hall 220

Location: Haines Hall 220

Location: Haines Hall 220 On the Symmetry Between Merge and Adjoin A crucial task for syntactic theory is to determine what syntactic operations are made available by the human capacity...

Location: Haines Hall 220 When phonological learning is not statistical: how learning biases have reshaped Malagasy paradigms One view of phonological learning is that it is driven by a domain-general...

Location: Haines Hall 220 What is “adapted” in adaptive speech perception? The acoustic-phonetic realization of the same linguistic categories (e.g., phonemes, syllables, or words) can vary considerably both within and...

Representing individuals In this talk I will consider what is known about how the human mind and brain represents individuals non-linguistically, and what the implications are for our theories of...

  Location - Dodd 146 Language users' expectations shape phonetic flexibility Language users show considerable flexibility in their phonetic perception and production. Phonetic flexibility phenomena such as convergence and perceptual...

Location - Dodd 146 New perspectives on speech variability from large-scale studies I present two studies which aim to understand the structure and sources of variability in speech production, enabled...

Location - Dodd 146 Temporal constitution in language and mind Semanticists posit at least two categories of dynamic entity—event and process—in their explanations of the semantic properties of different classes...

Location - Royce Hall 362 Title: Prosodic structure, timing, and fortition-lenition patterns Abstract: This talk reviews cross-linguistic evidence that certain common lenition processes such as spirantization, intervocalic voicing, and flapping...