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 in domains from daily tasks to education and employment, human expertise about language is increasingly devalued. This talk will present the results of three studies...
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
Faculty Meeting
2122 Campbell HallColloquium Talk – Uriel Cohen Priva
Royce Hall 156Four 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 the observation that durational shortening appears to be a crucial causal factor in at least three unrelated languages (Ennever, Meakins, and Round 2017; Katz and...
Colloquium Talk – Kelsey Sasaki
Colloquium Talk - Kelsey Sasaki Mar 10 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Location: La Kretz Hall 120
Colloquium Talk – Jack Duff
Colloquium Talk - Jack Duff Mar 12 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Location: La Kretz Hall 120
Colloquium Talk – Florian Schwarz
Royce Hall 156Testing 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 with certain prepositions (e.g., vom vs. von dem). Semantically, the analysis took the former to be a situationally restricted uniqueness article, and the latter an anaphoric article bearing...