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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....

