Two notions of strong equivalence In this talk, I propose two notions of equivalence between grammars and grammar formalisms that are useful for comparing not only which strings can be generated, but also how they are generated. If a sentence is ambiguous in a language, a suitable grammar should derive that sentence in multiple ways....

A weekly meeting group to discuss practical and theoretical issues in fieldwork and language documentation.

“A Theory of Vowel System Typology Based on Confusion Minimization” - John McGahay “Prosody by Sentence Type in Haryanvi” - Cor Zanda & Sakshi Singh

Cross-Linguistic Variation in Co-Speech Gesture Timing: Evidence for Grammatical Control Co-speech gestures have traditionally been treated as an ‘extralinguistic’ phenomenon, not implicated in theories of grammar (e.g. Hagoort & van Berkum 2007). In this talk, I discuss cross-linguistic findings on the coordination of speech and co-speech gesture that reveal clear evidence of language-specific timing patterns, a...