Syn/Sem Talk – Ramiro Caso
2122 Campbell HallA talk by Ramiro Caso, a philosopher/linguist visiting us from Buenos Aires. Towards a dynamic account of deontic modals I investigate the semantic and pragmatic behavior of deontic modals from a dynamic perspective. Pragmatically, deontic modals exhibit complex anchoring patterns that depend both on whose information state and whose preference ordering are taken as relevant,...
Colloquium Talk – Rachel Walker
Position-sensitive transparency in vowel harmony: The role of prosodic gestures and locality A recent crosslinguistic study of positional privilege in vowel harmony observed that vowels in a stressed syllable may asymmetrically block harmony, but they are never singled out to be transparent (Kaplan & Walker 2024). This typological gap is not predicted under traditional theoretical...
Phonetics Seminar – Zion Mengesha
Campbell Hall 2122AZion Mengesha (Dept. of Anthropology)
Syn/Sem Talk – Adrian Brasoveanu
2122 Campbell HallThis week's Syn/Sem features a practice SALT talk by Adrian Brasoveanu (UCSC). Counterfactual Interpretation as Search for Coherence (In a Learned Model of the World) "Once there was a little boy who lived in a hot country. One day his mother told him to take some cake to his grandmother. She warned him to hold...
Faculty Meeting
2122 Campbell HallPhonetics Seminar
Campbell Hall 2122AASA poster presentation practice Coralie Cram (representing A. Boulom, N. Cuymon, J. McGahay, Z. Metzler, E. Montilla, V. Shetty, J-L Siah, & M. Cychosz) - “A systematic review and meta-analysis of the development of coarticulation in child speech” Jahnavi Narkar & Max Meszaros - “A perceptual explanation for the adaptation of aspirated stops in Indic...
Syn/Sem Talk – Anand Abraham
2122 Campbell HallColloquium Talk – Matt Wagers
Setting healthy (mnemonic) boundaries Some 20 years ago, Lewis & Vasishth (2005) applied the ACT-R modeling framework to language processing by creating an English parser fragment embedded in an associative memory. McElree (2000) and McElree, Foraker & Dyer (2003) informed this development by providing earlier arguments in favor of such a content-addressable memory. This proved...
Phonetics Seminar – John McGahay
Campbell Hall 2122AJohn McGahay “Modeling Vowel System Typology Using Iterated Confusion Minimization”