Colloquium: Ellen Lau
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...
Colloquium Talk – Meredith Tamminga: Language users’ expectations shape phonetic flexibility
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...
Colloquium Talk – Morgan Sonderegger: New perspectives on speech variability from large-scale studies
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...
Colloquium Talk – Alexis Wellwood: Temporal constitution in language and mind
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...
Colloquium Talk – Jonah Katz: Prosodic structure, timing, and fortition-lenition patterns
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...
Colloquium Talk – Sam Zukoff: Morpheme Ordering Happens in the Phonology
Location - Math and Science 5200 Title: Morpheme Ordering Happens in the Phonology Abstract: The determination of the order of morphemes within words has traditionally been modeled using cyclic concatenation, the...
Colloquium Talk – Connor Mayer: Are scalar models of sonority enough? Insights from L2 acquisition of English complex onsets
Languages vary in their phonotactics: how sounds are allowed to be sequenced into words. For example, although English, Spanish, and Farsi all have the sounds /p l s/, English allows...
Colloquium Talk – Shengyun Gu: When the phonological mind meets another modality: Two-handed articulation in Shanghai Sign Language ” (See below for abstract)
Location - Royce Hall 362 The department tour slot is still open. You can sign up here (same link). When the phonological mind meets another modality: Two-handed articulation in Shanghai...
Colloquium Talk – Viola Schmitt: Distributivity is Complex
In this talk I show (based on joint cross-linguistic work with various collaborators) that distributive -- i.e., `classical' -- meanings for the universal part of the language (connectives and DP-internal...
Colloquium Talk – Amy Rose Deal
Dependent case by Agree: Ergative in Shawi (joint work with Emily Clem, UCSD)Ergative and accusative behave as dependent cases insofar as their appearance on a nominal depends on the presence of...