Linguistics Department Colloquium: Manfred Krifka, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin "Focus and Contrastive Topics in Assertions and Questions" (joint work with Beste Kamali, University of Bielefeld & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Abstract: We provide an account for focus and contrastive […]

Linguistics Department Colloquium (please note special time and place: Tue. March 6, 5pm, Merrill 315): Andreas Haida, Hebrew University of Jerusalem "Logical Reasoning and Scalar Inference Computation" (joint work with Luka Crnič and Yosef Grodzinsky) Abstract: It seems that logical reasoning […]

Linguistics Department Colloquium: Eleanor Chodroff (Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University) Uniformity in phonetic realization within natural classes The phonetic realization of a given speech sound varies substantially across languages and across talkers within a language. While many factors contribute to this […]

Linguistics Department Colloquium: Christopher Weedall (visiting scholar, Australian National University) Serial verb constructions in Sajolang (Miji)ː Towards grammaticalization Adjacent verbs in Sajolang (Sino-Tibetan, NE India), which has SOV order, commonly occur where a deeper analysis of the surface structure indicates […]

Linguistics Department Colloquium: Peter van Elswyk (Department of Philosophy, UWM) The semantics and pragmatics of hedging We often don’t come right out and say it—we hedge. When we do, we use a qualified declarative like Bob retired, I think or […]

Linguistics Department Colloquium: Sarah Bakst (Postdoctoral Researcher, Waisman Center, UW-Madison) Target practice: self-monitoring in L1 and L2 speech production (with Caroline A. Niziolek) We listen to ourselves while speaking to ensure that we say what we intended to say and […]

Linguistics Department Colloquium: Timo B. Roettger (Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University) Does the tune shape phonology? Human speech has multiple information channels that can simultaneously signal different levels of meaning. One such channel consists of consonants and vowels […]

Linguistics Department Colloquium: Benjamin Campbell (Department of Anthropology, UWM) The Role of the Insula in the Emergence of Human Language Language is a hallmark of the human species and its evolutionary origins have long been the topic of speculation among […]

Linguistics Department Colloquium: Iwona Kraska-Szlenk (University of Warsaw) Have you ever wondered why English speakers refer to parts of a clock as a 'face' and 'hands'? Why does a committee have a 'head'? How do artichokes have 'hearts' and mountains […]

Linguistics Department Colloquium: Robert Englebretson (Rice University) Why Braille is not a Tactile ‘Code’ for Visual Print: Evidence from Sublexical Structure Previous research has overwhelmingly demonstrated that fluent reading (of visual print) relies heavily on the unconscious visual recognition of […]