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Phonology Seminar: Journal Club

Conference Room 2122A/B

Very short presentations with one-page handout. Please visit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l6ZJ1T9QD1Mx8Ih3ZU2Tz2t4UHC5jPcF8-2DmwLy3kw/edit# and follow the instructions there.

BLing Info-Game Night

Campbell Hall 2122 A/B

Bruin Linguistics Society (BLing) will be hosting an Info-Game Night for Undergraduate students. Join us to learn about how to get involved in BLing, get to know other linguistic majors, and play some games!

Psycholing/ Compling Seminar: Jesse Harris practice talk “Let alone ellipsis and the case for enduring default focus: A pupillometry study”

Campbhell Hall 2122

In 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 processor must locate the contrasting correlate phrase (a mile) in the prior clause from among other same-category competitors. Experimental and corpus research finds that the...

Maura O’Leary’s student colloquium talk- It’s About Time: A long-expected relationship between nouns and tense

Haines 118

It's About Time: A long-expected relationship between nouns and tenseMaura O'Leary (UCLA)It has been well established that the property times of verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositional phrases, participle phrases, and relative clauses are all interpreted relative to the time argument introduced by the nearest scoping lambda abstractor (e.g., Abusch 1988, Percus 2000, Ogihara 2003, Keshet 2008)...

Psycholing/ Compling Seminar: Claire-Moore Cantwell: Gambler’s Fallacy effects in probabilistic wug-test responses

Campbell Hall 2122

Abstract: 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 a row. This effect was strongest when two options were explicitly presented (a 2-alternative forced choice task), and weaker when participants were simply asked to...