AY 2015-2016 Speaker Schedule

 

Fall 2015

Date	Speaker	Title
9/9/2015	Boaz Keysar (University of Chicago)	Colloquium – Living in a Foreign Tongue
9/16/2015	Edward Gibson (MIT)	Colloquium – Information theoretic approaches to language universals
9/30/2015	Matt Hall (University of Connecticut)	Using Non-Language to Understand Language
10/7/2015	Stephen Emet (Brown University)	“I’m sorry I ever went to that talk”: NPIs in Affective Contexts
10/21/2015	Polly Jacobson (Brown University)	You think there’s Silent Linguistic Material, but I don’t: Neg Raising meets Ellipsis
11/4/2015	Matt Hall (University of Connecticut)	Keeping the hands in mind: Executive function and implicit learning in deaf children
11/11/2015	Evelina Fedorenko (Mass General Hospital/Harvard Medical School)	Colloquium – The L​anguage ​N​etwork and ​I​ts ​P​lace within ​t​he ​B​roader Architecture of the Human Mind and Brain
11/18/2015	Robert J. Podesva (Stanford University)	Colloquium – The Role of the Body in Structuring Sociophonetic Variation
12/2/2015	Wilson Silva (RIT)	The Desano Language Documentation Project: Fieldwork, Theory and Language Revitalization

 

Spring 2016

Date	Speaker	Title
2/24/2016	Peter Klecha (University of Connecticut)	Regulating Loose Talk through Implicature
3/2/2016	Peter Alrenga (Boston University)	(CANCELLED) At least and at most: Ignorance and variation in focus
3/9/2016	Emily Myers (University of Connecticut)	Non-Native Speech Sound Learning: Studies of Sleep, Brain, and Behavior
3/23/2016	Jean E. Fox Tree (University of California, Santa Cruz)	Colloquium – The Usefulness of Useless Utterances: Why Um, Like, and Other Disparaged Phenomena are not Superfluous
4/6/2016	Matthew Barros (Yale University)	Sluicing and Ellipsis Identity
4/20/2016	Eiling Yee (University of Connecticut)	Putting Concepts in Context
4/29/2016	Florian Jaeger (University of Rochester)	From processing to language change and cross-linguistic distributions