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Congratulations to Adrian Brasoveanu and former LRC visitor Jakub Dotlacil (Amsterdam) on the publication of their book Computational Cognitive Modeling and Linguistic Theory, out now as part of Springer’s Language, Cognition, and Mind series. The book, which gradually introduces tools for the construction of explicit computational models of performance and processing, is open access, and available for reading and download now on Springer’s website. Read enthusiastic reviews from Hans Kamp (Austin) and Shravan Vasishth (Pottsdam) here.

A portion of Ch. 9 of the book will be discussed this week at SPLAP, see below.

LaLoCo: Tuesday, 9:00-10:00 AM: The group will continue discussion of fastai and its applications.

MRG: Tuesday, 12:00-1:00 PM: The group will discuss Müller (2006), “Global Impoverishment in Sierra Popoluca.”

s/lab: Tuesday, 2:00-3:00 PM: Vishal Arvindam will lead discussion of Mirman et al. (2008), a look at statistical models of the visual world paradigm.

SPLAP: Wednesday, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM: The group will discuss material from Ch. 9 of Brasoveanu & Dotlacil (2020), an ACT-R model modeling the semantic interpretation of cataphora.

Phlunch/WLMA: Friday, 12:00-1:00 PM: Ryan Bennett will present his research on vowel deletion and gestural overlap in Uspanteko.

S-Circle: Friday, 1:30-3:00 PM: Haoze Li (NYU) will present a talk titled “Reference to dependencies in multiple-wh questions”.

Nang: Monday, 10:00 – 11:00 AM: Jake Vincent will lead discussion of Yu and Stabler (2017), “(In)variability in the Samoan syntax/prosody interface and consequences for syntactic parsing.”

The Humanities Institute’s latest Graduate Profile features an interview with sixth-year PhD candidate Margaret Kroll, discussing her research in pragmatics and psycholinguistics, her experience as a researcher, student, and teacher in the Linguistics department, and her 2019 THI Summer Fellowship. You can read the article here.

The Linguistics Department is happy to announce the promotion of Pranav Anand to Full Professor as of July 1, 2020. Promotion to Full Professor signals the campus’s recognition of outstanding accomplishments in research, teaching, and service to the academic and professional communities. Many congratulations to Pranav on this major accomplishment!

This Tuesday at 9am, LaLoCo will be hosting a workshop on the basics of deep learning for natural language processing. All are welcome! Interested attendees can get in touch with Margaret Kroll for the Zoom link.

LaLoCo: Tuesday, 9:00-10:00 AM: The group will discuss the basics of deep learning for NLP.

MRG: Tuesday, 12:00-1:00 PM: The group will discuss Ajíbóyè, Déchaine, Gick, and Pulleyblank (2011), “Disambiguating Yorùbá tones: At the interface between syntax, morphology, phonology and phonetics.”

s/lab: Tuesday, 2:00-3:00 PM: The group will convene for an informal coffee hour.

SPLAP: Wednesday, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Stephanie Rich will present on Kazanina et al. (2007), “The effect of syntactic constraints on the processing of backwards anaphora”.

Phlunch: Friday, 12:00-1:00 PM: Richard Bibbs will present recent work on prosodic movement in Chamorro.

S-Circle: Friday, 1:30-3:00 PM: The group will continue NeGroup, a mini-group on negation and neg-raising led by Jess Law and Ivy Sichel.

WLMA will not be meeting this week, and Nang will not be meeting next week.

Welcome to the incoming graduate class for Fall 2021! Niko Webster and Taijing Xiao will join the PhD program, and Ed Shingler will start the BA/MA program. It was a highly competitive admissions process this year, and we are excited for these excellent students to join our community!