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Syn/Sem Talk – Ramiro Caso
Syn/Sem Talk – Ramiro Caso
A talk by Ramiro Caso, a philosopher/linguist visiting us from Buenos Aires. Towards a dynamic account of deontic modals I investigate the semantic and pragmatic behavior of deontic modals from a dynamic perspective. Pragmatically, deontic modals exhibit complex anchoring patterns that depend both on whose information state and whose preference ordering are taken as relevant,...
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Colloquium Talk – Rachel Walker
Colloquium Talk – Rachel Walker
Position-sensitive transparency in vowel harmony: The role of prosodic gestures and locality A recent crosslinguistic study of positional privilege in vowel harmony observed that vowels in a stressed syllable may asymmetrically block harmony, but they are never singled out to be transparent (Kaplan & Walker 2024). This typological gap is not predicted under traditional theoretical...
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Syn/Sem Talk – Adrian Brasoveanu
Syn/Sem Talk – Adrian Brasoveanu
This week's Syn/Sem features a practice SALT talk by Adrian Brasoveanu (UCSC). Counterfactual Interpretation as Search for Coherence (In a Learned Model of the World) "Once there was a little boy who lived in a hot country. One day his mother told him to take some cake to his grandmother. She warned him to hold...
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Phonetics Seminar
Phonetics Seminar
ASA poster presentation practice Coralie Cram (representing A. Boulom, N. Cuymon, J. McGahay, Z. Metzler, E. Montilla, V. Shetty, J-L Siah, & M. Cychosz) - “A systematic review and meta-analysis of the development of coarticulation in child speech” Jahnavi Narkar & Max Meszaros - “A perceptual explanation for the adaptation of aspirated stops in Indic...
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Syn/Sem Talk – Anand Abraham
Syn/Sem Talk – Anand Abraham
"Sluicing as Discourse Anaphora" Sluicing is a phenomenon where a *wh*-phrase is used to stand for the meaning of a whole question. Sluicing is traditionally analyzed as a variety of ellipsis (Chung et al. 1995, Merchant 2001), but significant mismatches are possible between the antecedent of a sluice and the structure that is posited in...
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Colloquium Talk – Matt Wagers
Colloquium Talk – Matt Wagers
Setting healthy (mnemonic) boundaries Some 20 years ago, Lewis & Vasishth (2005) applied the ACT-R modeling framework to language processing by creating an English parser fragment embedded in an associative memory. McElree (2000) and McElree, Foraker & Dyer (2003) informed this development by providing earlier arguments in favor of such a content-addressable memory. This proved...
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Phonetics Seminar – John McGahay
Phonetics Seminar – John McGahay
John McGahay “Modeling Vowel System Typology Using Iterated Confusion Minimization”
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Syn/Sem Talk – Hilda Koopman
Syn/Sem Talk – Hilda Koopman
Oblique passives, Voice, and PPs This talk builds on work with Tomoko Ishizuka "On the (non-accidental) homophony of -rare in passives and (psv-)potentials: insights from Japanese oblique passives)(2025)". I will focus on a number of questions we did not address previously. These are centered on locative (adjunct) and instrumental passives, Voice and PPs. After a...
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Colloquium Talk – Valentine Hacquard
Colloquium Talk – Valentine Hacquard
Being pragmatic about anankastic conditionals (joint work with Jingyi Chen) So-called ‘anankastic conditionals’, like (1), have vexed standard accounts of modals and conditionals, by presenting an apparent non compositionality problem. Indeed, (1) seems to express that going to Harlem requires taking the A train, rather than the mere desire to do so, a reading standard...
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