Psycholinguistics Seminar
Conference Room 2122A/BPsycholing/ Compling Seminar: -Discuss colloquium speaker nominations -Plan schedule for quarter
Phonology Seminar: Journal Club
Conference Room 2122A/BVery 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/BBruin 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!
Faculty Meeting
DSP Program, Senate Faculty
Lisa Davidson (NYU) – phonetics
Haines 118Psycholing/ Compling Seminar: Jesse Harris practice talk “Let alone ellipsis and the case for enduring default focus: A pupillometry study”
Campbhell Hall 2122In 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 118It'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)...