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...

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 Feb 28 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm Location: Royce Hall 156  

Colloquium Talk - Dave Cayado Mar 5 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Location: La Kretz Hall 120

Four short investigations of short duration. I will present four interconnected investigations regarding the effects of short duration in the context of phonetics, phonology and sound change. I’ll start with...

Colloquium Talk - Kelsey Sasaki Mar 10 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Location: La Kretz Hall 120

Colloquium Talk - Jack Duff Mar 12 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Location: La Kretz Hall 120

Testing weak and strong definites experimentally across languages Schwarz (2009) proposed a distinction between weak and strong definite articles, reflected in Standard German in the presence or absence of contraction of the article...

Rethinking classifier languages Classifier languages have long been of interest to formal semanticists. That such languages do not allow nouns to be modified directly by numerals have lead researchers to...

Lessons about clausal embedding from long-distance wh-dependencies  Abstract: In this talk I argue with the data from Georgian that syntax and semantics of long-distance wh-dependencies provide support for the view...