Colloquium: Shahrzad Mahootian, Professor of Linguistics, NEIU
Language as resource: The role of context in code choice
Colloquium: Lewis Gebhardt
Holton 190Linguistics Department Colloquium: Lewis Gebhardt (Northeastern Illinois University) "The Crow Determiner Phrase In a Mostly Configurational Language" Abstract: Crow, a polysynthetic incorporating language, exhibits high configurationality in its nominal phrases. The elements in the extended NP are not only linearly […]
Colloquium: Eleni Pinnow
Holton 190Linguistics Department Colloquium: Eleni Pinnow (University of Wisconsin-Superior) "The role of probabilistic phonotactics in the recognition of reduced pseudowords" Abstract: This talk will examine lexical and sublexical influences on the recognition of spoken words in their canonical and reduced form. […]
Colloquium: James Hye Suk Yoon
Merrill 314Linguistics Department Colloquium: James Hye Suk Yoon (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) (Note special time and place: Tuesday, April 4, 2:00pm, Merrill 314) "Lexical Integrity and the Architecture of Morphology-Syntax Interface" Abstract: Although morphology is taught as a system autonomous from […]
Colloquium: Klinton Bicknell
Holton 190Linguistics Department Colloquium: Klinton Bicknell (Northwestern University) "Language comprehension as rational probabilistic inference on perceptual input" Abstract: Language comprehension is the process of identifying intended meaning from written or spoken language input. It is well established that comprehension proceeds incrementally: […]
Colloquium: Manfred Krifka
Holton 190Linguistics 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 […]
Colloquium: Andreas Haida
Merrill 315Linguistics 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 […]
Linguists present at UWM Undergraduate Research Symposium
Wisconsin Room, UnionUndergraduate research fellows Krist Schubilske and Jasen Sonnen will be presenting their poster, Pupil responses to false memories during speech perception.
Colloquium: Eleanor Chodroff
Holton 190Linguistics 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 […]