Colloquium Talk – Bronwyn Bjorkman: The puzzle of (apparently) phonologically motivated empty morphs
2122 Campbell HallEmpty 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...
Colloquium Talk – Emily Bender: Synthetic text extruding machines: A linguist-eye view on their narrow range of applicability
Since 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,...
Colloquium Talk – Yang Wang
Location - Franz 1260
RESCHEDULED/CANCELLED – Colloquium Talk – Jake Aziz
This event has been rescheduled/cancelled.
Colloquium Talk – Jake Aziz “Syntax and Prosody in Malagasy”
A correspondence between syntactic and prosodic constituency has been observed for many languages, and Malagasy (VOS) is no exception: the predicate and subject each forms its own phonological phrase, marked...
Colloquium Talk – Barbara Citko
Economy in PF-Reduction: Why and when (not) to elide multidominant structures? In this talk, reporting on joint work with Martina Gračanin-Yuksek, we examine two ways in which a syntactic structure can be PF-reduced (unpronounced): multidominance...
Colloquium Talk – Nicole Holliday – Sociolinguistic Competence Versus Artificial “Intelligence”: Variation in the Face of Ubiquitous Large Language Models
Linguists take it as axiomatic that speakers are experts on their languages, both in grammar and usage. However, as Large Language Models (LLM) trained on text and speech become ubiquitous...
Colloquium Talk – Wesley Orth
Royce Hall 156Colloquium Talk - Wesley Orth Feb 28 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm Location: Royce Hall 156
Colloquium Talk – Dave Cayado
Colloquium Talk - Dave Cayado Mar 5 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Location: La Kretz Hall 120