AY 2014-2015 Speaker Schedule

 

Fall 2014

Date	Speaker	Title
9/24/2014	–	Introductory Meeting
10/1/2014	Sara Guediche (Brown University)	Flexible and adaptive processes in speech perception
10/22/2014	Masako Fidler (Brown University)	Mining reader receptions of text with keyword analysis
10/29/2014	Sophia Malamud (Brandeis University)	Utterance modifiers and the emergence of illocutionary force
11/5/2014	Chigusa Kurumada (University of Rochester)	Expectation-adaptation in the incremental interpretation of English contrastive prosody
11/19/2014	Scott AnderBois (Brown University)	The discourse particle wal in Yucatec Maya: a decompositional approach
12/10/2014	Stefanie Tellex (Brown University)	Natural Language and Robotics

 

Spring 2015

Date	Speaker	Title
2/4/2015	Philip Hofmeister (Brown University)	Expectations and linguistic acceptability judgments
2/25/2015	Timothy Grinsell (University of Chicago)	Verdicts, Voters, and Vectors: Three Sources of Evidence for One Theory of Vagueness
3/4/2015	Tania Rojas-Esponda (Stanford University)	Discourse particles and focus effects in a question-under-discussion framework
3/18/2015	Václav Cvrček (Institute of the Czech National Corpus)	Descriptive vs prescriptive approach. The case of Czech grammar
4/1/2015	Junwen Lee (Brown University)	Lah revisited – A modal analysis
4/8/2015	Magdalena Kaufmann (University of Connecticut)	Free choice as a form of dependence
4/22/2015	Ryan Bennett (Yale University)	An ultrasound study of Irish palatalization
4/29/2015	Gregory Hickok (University of California, Irvine)	Colloquium – An Integrative Approach to Understanding the Neuroscience of Language
4/30/2015	Eladio Mateo Toledo (B’alam) (CIESAS-Sureste, México)	The Destinative Construction in Q’anjob’al (Maya)