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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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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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