Talk with Colloquium speaker: Bob Frank
Conference Room 2122A/BAll members of the Linguistics Department are invited to a bonus talk with Bob Frank about the "Ways of using generative capacity and other formal properties of grammars to assess...
Psycholinguistics Seminar
Conference Room 2122A/BPsycholing/ Compling Seminar: -Discuss colloquium speaker nominations -Plan schedule for quarter
Psycholing/ Compling Seminar: Jesse Harris practice talk “Let alone ellipsis and the case for enduring default focus: A pupillometry study”
Campbhell Hall 2122In let alone ellipsis, the remnant typically stands in prosodic contrast with its correlate (e.g., John can’t run a MILE, let alone a MARATHON). To interpret the remnant (a marathon), the...
Psycholing/ Compling Seminar: Claire-Moore Cantwell: Gambler’s Fallacy effects in probabilistic wug-test responses
Campbell Hall 2122Abstract: Participants exhibit the 'gambler's fallacy' in wug-test responses, adjusting their probability of a response based on previous responses. In particular, they avoid giving the same response three times in...
Psycholing/ Compling Seminar: Lindy Comstock (Dept. of Neurosurgery)- Developing the auditory oddball paradigm as a tool for language mapping
Campbell Hall 2122Successful language development after cerebral hemispherectomy is a vital concern for the well-being of children affected by intractable seizure disorders. Yet, this area of research is underrepresented in the literature,...
Psycholing/ Compling Seminar- Minqi Liu (UCLA): (Featural) Intervention Effects in the Acquisition of Mandarin Passives
Campbell Hall 2122After which we will provide feedback on any BUCLD abstracts people would like to share.
Psycholing/ Compling Seminar- Bethany Sturmann: Subclausal quotation intonation and what it means
Campbell Hall 2122Subclausal quotation provides an interesting use case for the integration of intonation into the semantic analysis of an utterance. In this talk I will present the key intonational features of...