Date | Speaker | Title |
1/22/2020 | – | First day of classes |
1/29/2020 | Joanna Morris (Hampshire College & RISD) | Is there a ‘moth’ in mother? How we read complex words (and those that are just pretending to be) |
2/5/2020 | – | – |
2/12/2020 | – | – |
2/19/2020 | Maksymilian Dabkowski (Brown) | The morphophonology of A’ingae verbal stress |
2/26/2020 | Casey Lew-Williams (Princeton) | Infants learn from meaningful structure in their communicative environments |
3/4/2020 | Masoud Jasbi (Harvard) | The Puzzle of Learning Disjunction |
3/11/2020 | Lauren Franklin (Brown) | TBD |
3/17/2020 | Rachel Burdin (University of New Hampshire) CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 | TBD |
3/25/2020 | Spring Recess | – |
4/1/2020 | Athulya Aravind (MIT) CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 | TBD |
4/8/2020 | Shiying Yang (Brown) CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 | TBD |
4/15/2020 | – | – |
4/22/2020 | Youtao Lu (Brown) | TBD |
4/29/2020 | Misha Ali (Brown) TBD | TBD |
Category Archives: Schedules
Fall 2019 Speaker Schedule
Date | Speaker | Title |
9/4/2019 | – | First day of classes |
9/11/2019 | ||
9/18/2019 | Stefan Kaufmann (UConn) | How fake is fake Past? |
9/25/2019 | – | – |
10/2/2019 | Lisa Davidson (NYU) | The link between syllabic nasals and glottal stops in American English |
10/9/2019 | ||
10/16/2019 | Jeff Mielke (NC State) | Phonetic studies of vowels in two endangered languages |
10/23/2019 | Uriel Cohen Priva (Brown) | Understanding lenition through its causal structure |
10/30/2019 | Joshua Hartshorne (Boston College) | Critical periods in language, cognitive development, and massive online experiments |
11/7/2019 (Thursday at 10am) | Judith Kroll (UC Irvine) | The fate of the native language in second language learning: A new hypothesis about bilingualism, mind, and brain |
11/13/2019 | Kate Lindsey (BU) (cancelled) | TBD |
11/20/2019 | Daniel Altshuler (Hampshire College) | Causal reasoning about states |
11/27/2019 | – | Thanksgiving recess |
12/4/2019 | Roman Feiman (Roman) | TBD |
Spring 2019 Speaker Schedule
Date | Speaker | Title |
1/23/2019 | – | First day of classes |
1/31/2019 | ||
2/7/2019 | Ellie Pavlick (Brown) | Why should NLP care about linguistics? |
2/14/2019 | ||
2/21/2019 | ||
2/28/2019 | Chelsea Sanker (Brown) | Secondary cues to coda voicing and vowel duration |
3/7/2019 | ||
3/15/2019 | Suzi Lima (Toronto) | A typology of the count/mass distinction in Brazil and its relevance for count/mass theories |
3/21/2019 | Jason Shaw (Yale) | Phonological control of time |
3/28/2019 | – | Spring Recess |
4/4/2019 | Jessi Grieser (The University of Tennessee Knoxville) | Talking Place, Speaking Race |
4/11/2019 | Roger Levy (MIT) | Implicit gender bias in preferred linguistic descriptions for expected events |
4/18/2019 | ||
4/25/2019 | Anna Bjurman Pautz (Brown University) | Two-dimensionalism and Empty names in Propositional Attitude reports |
5/2/2019 | Lynnette Arnold & Paja Faudree | Language and Social Justice: Teaching About the “Word Gap” |
Fall 2018 Speaker Schedule
Date | Speaker | Title |
9/5/2018 | – | First day of classes |
9/12/2018 | ||
9/19/2018 | ||
9/26/2018 | Mirjam Fried (Charles University in Prague) | When main clauses go AWOL: a constructional account of polarity shifts in insubordination |
10/3/2018 | ||
10/10/2018 | ||
10/17/2018 | ||
10/24/2018 | Kyuwon Moon | Feminine voice in workplace: phonetic variation in Seoul women’s speech |
10/31/2018 | (Susan Goldin-Meadow Colloquium) | |
11/7/2018 | Scott Seyfarth (Ohio State University) | Variable external sandhi in a communication-oriented phonology |
11/14/2018 | ||
11/21/2018 | Thanksgiving (university closed) | |
11/28/2018 | Steven Frankland (Princeton University) | Structured re-use of neural representations in language and thought |
12/5/2018 |
AY 2012-2013 Speaker Schedule
Fall 2012
Date | Speaker | Title |
10/17/2012 | Polly Jacobson (Brown University) | The Myth of Silent Linguistic Material |
9/25/2012 | Geoffrey K. Pullum (University of Edinburgh) | Psychology and the Claimed Infinitude of Sentences |
10/10/2012 | Junwen Lee (Brown University) | A Unitary Analysis of Colloquial Singapore English Lah |
10/17/2012 | Eugene Charniak (Brown University) | Colloquium – Bayes’ Law as Psychologically Real |
10/24/2012 | D.R. (Bob) Ladd (University of Edinburgh) | Colloquium – Individual differences in pitch perception and a possible link to language typology |
10/31/2012 | Peter Graff (MIT) | Communicative Efficiency in the Lexicon |
11/1/2012 | Terry Au (University of Hong Kong) | Colloquium – Access to Childhood Language Memory |
11/14/2012 | Brian Dillon (University of Massachusetts Amherst) | Syntactic complexity across the at-issue / not-at-issue divide |
11/28/2012 | Stefan Kaufmann (Northwestern University) | |
Spring 2013
Date | Speaker | Title |
2/6/2013 | Uriel Cohen Priva (Brown University) | (CANCELLED) |
4/24/2013 | Jill Thorson (Brown University) | TBA |
4/17/2013 | Victor Ferreira (University of California, San Diego | TBA |
5/2/2013 | Philip Miller (Université Paris Diderot) | Verb Phrase Ellipsis and Pseudogapping: From Discourse to Syntax |
5/8/2013 | Kathryn Davidson (University of Connecticut) | What can sign languages tell us about the semantic/pragmatic interface? |
5/15/2013 | Neal Fox (Brown University) | Sentential context effects on phonetics of speech production |
AY 2013-2014 Speaker Schedule
Fall 2013
Date | Speaker | Title |
9/18/2013 | Eva Wittenberg (Tufts University) | Close but no cigar: The differences between kissing, giving kisses, and giving other things |
10/2/2013 | Josh Hartshorne (MIT) | Syntax, Semantics, World Knowledge, and Reference |
10/15/2013 | Scott AnderBois (Brown University) | A transitivity-based split in Yucatec Maya control complements |
10/29/2013 | Scott AnderBois (Brown University) | On the exceptional status of reportative evidentials |
11/13/2013 | Kevin Ryan (Harvard University) | Prosodic weight beyond the rime |
12/10/2013 | Anna Shusterman (Wesleyan University) | (CANCELLED) Language-Thought Interactions in Development |
12/17/2013 | Laura Kertz & Corey Cusimano (Brown University) | (CANCELLED) Coherence-driven expectations for cross-clausal parallelism |
Spring 2014
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
AY 2015-2016 Speaker Schedule
Fall 2015
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 |
AY 2016-2017 Speaker Schedule
Fall 2016
Date | Speaker | Title |
9/28/2016 | Andy Wedel (University of Arizona) | Functional pressure from the lexicon shapes phoneme inventory evolution |
10/5/2016 | – | LLL(Lite) – Lightning Talks |
10/19/2016 | Matt Masapollo (Brown University) | On the nature of the natural referent vowel bias |
10/26/2016 | Seth Cable (University of Massachusetts Amherst) | (CANCELLED) Negation and Antonym in Tlingit |
11/2/2016 | Valentine Hacquard (University of Maryland) | Colloquium – Grasping at Factivity |
11/9/2016 | Chelsea Sanker (Brown University) | Phonetic Convergence across measures and across speakers |
11/16/2016 | Uriel Cohen Priva (Brown University) | An interplay between information, duration, and lenition |
11/23/2016 | ||
12/1/2016 | Peter Alrenga (Boston University) | At least and at most: Ignorance and variation in focus |
12/7/2016 | Gerry Altman (University of Connecticut) | Colloquium – The challenges of event cognition: Object representation at the interface of episodic and semantic memory |
Spring 2017
Spring 2018 Speaker Schedule
Date | Speaker | Title |
2/14/2018 | – | LLL(Lite) |
2/21/2018 | ||
2/28/2018 | Roey Gafter (Ben Gurion University) | Pharyngeals and beyond: phonetic differences and phonemic mergers in Hebrew (![]() |
3/7/2018 | Kasia Hitczenko(University of Maryland) | How to use context to disambiguate overlapping categories: The test case of Japanese vowel length |
3/14/2018 | Susan Kalt (Roxbury Community College) | Changes in Bolivian Quechua evidentiality |
3/21/2018 | Gale Goodwin Gomez (RIC) | CANCELLED |
4/4/2017 | Meghan Armstrong-Abrami (UMass) | Children’s detection of epistemic strength distinctions through prosody and the lexicon (![]() |
4/11/2018 | Angela Carpenter (Wellesley College) | Dialect change in immigrant speakers of Jamaican Creole |
4/18/2018 | Yiming Gu (Brown University) | Tone sandhi in Ganyu Mandarin |
4/25/2018 | Haoru Zhang (Brown University) | Phonetic Convergence in Mandarin |
5/2/2018 | Sandra Waxman (Northwestern University) | Colloquium – Becoming human: How (and how early) do infants link language and cognition? |