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Colloquium: Some Half-Truths and Interim Conclusions about Liaison- Anne-Michelle Tessier, UBC

Haines A25

A very complicated issue in understanding morpho-phonological alternations concerns those phenomena that are pervasive, frequent, and phonotactically-motivated, and yet exceptionful and lexically-sensitive. To what extent are such processes, that apply idiosyncratically to different morphemes, words and even phrases, represented in a way that generalizes to novel forms? This talk examines this issue via the “well-plowed ground”*...

AIS: Negation Fest

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Phonology Seminar

2122 Campbell Hall

Talk:  Andy Xu, “Uneven sonority sequencing steps: Bayesian reanalysis of sonority projection.” Poster:  Noah Elkins and Jennifer Kuo, “A prominence account of the Northern Mam weight hierarchy”

AIS: Iara Mantenuto, CSUDH

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Psycholing/CompLing Seminar: Christian Muxica & Jesse Harris

2122 Campbell Hall

Selecting contextually relevant alternatives during comprehension An expression in focus is standardly taken to evoke a contextually salient set of alternatives to itself (Rooth 1992). In an influential study, Husband and Ferreira (2016) proposed that these alternative sets are derived online from the set of semantic associates primed by processing a word in focus. The...