Pragmatic effects can be hard to pin down in reading time measures. I'll talk about a garden-path-like effect resulting from eager causal inferencing in English discourses, which has been found...

Epistemic modality as disjunction in Cinyungwe Hannah Lippard I will present a portion of my ongoing dissertation research on polysemous disjunction in the Mozambican Bantu language Cinyungwe. In this talk,...

New time for Phonetics Seminar this week!

The acoustic space of stop laryngeal contrasts

In languages with just first order quantifiers (e.g. English LF a la Heim & Kratzer 1998) whether a sentence is valid (logically true, true in all models) depends on the...

Can children use tense and aspect morphology to learn novel verbs? How do children learn how their language marks tense and aspect? How do they disentangle what marks tense and...

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...