Fall 2017
Date | Speaker | Title |
9/6/2017 | – | LLL(Lite) |
9/13/2017 | Iris Berent (Northeastern University) | Colloquium – On the origins of phonology |
9/20/2017 | Shiying Yang (Brown) | FYP/QP Practice Talk – On the distinctiveness of Mandarin syllable and monosyllabic word contrasts |
9/27/2017 | Richard Futrell (MIT) | Memory and Locality in Natural Language |
10/18/2017 | A’ingae Documentation Team (Brown) | LLL(Lite) – UTRA Presentation + CILLA VIII Practice Talk |
10/25/2017 | – | LLL(Lite) – A Conversation with Faculty |
11/1/2017 | Laura Janda (UiT) | What happens to a language under pressure: discriminatory language policy and language change in North Saami |
11/10/2017 | (FRI) Hadas Kotek (NYU) | Which QuD |
11/15/2017 | Florian Schwarz (UPenn) | Colloquium – The Time-course of Presupposition Projection – Experimental Data and Theoretical Issues |
11/29/2017 | Gale Goodwin Gomez (RIC) | TBA |
12/6/2017 | Junwen Lee (Brown) | LLL(Lite) – Dissertation Research Presentation |
Spring 2018
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? |