Category: Talks

HOW OUR READINGS ARE GROUPING THIS WEEK

LIP: Thursday, 11:00 – 12:00 pm, LCR Netta Ben-Meir will be leading the discussion about a paper titled “Expectations and Speech Intelligibility” (Babel and Russell 2017)

s/lab: Thursday, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, LCR Jake Vincent will be presenting

Phlunch: Friday, 1:30 – 2:30 pm, LCR Jenny Bellik will be presenting

WLMA: Friday, 3:00 – 4:00 pm, Stevenson 217 Jed Pizarro-Guevara will be leading a discussion of the paper “Ergativity and the complexity of extraction: a view from Mayan” (Clemens et al 2015)

USSISHKIN COLLOQUIUM

This Friday, February 16th, at 1:20 pm in Humanities 1, Room 210, there will be a colloquium by Adam Ussishkin (University of Arizona). His talk is entitled “Roots, or consonants? On the early role of morphology in lexical access.” The abstract is given below:

Words consist of a phoneme or letter sequence that maps onto meaning. Most prominent theories of both auditory and visual word recognition portray the recognition process as a connection between these units and a semantic level. However, there is a growing body of evidence in the priming literature suggesting that there is an additional, morphological level that mediates the recognition process. In morphologically linear languages like English, however, morphemes and letter or sound sequences are co-extensive, so the source of priming effects between related words could be due to simple phonological overlap as opposed to morphological overlap. In Semitic languages, though, the morphological structure of words reduces this confound, since morphemes are interdigitated in a non-linear fashion. Semitic words are typically composed of a discontiguous root (made up of three consonants) embedded in a word pattern specifying the vowels and the ordering between consonants and vowels. Active-passive pairs in Maltese illustrate this relationship (the root is underlined); e.g., fetaħ ‘open’-miftuħ ‘opened’. In this talk, I report on a series of experiments on the Semitic language Maltese investigating the extent to which root morphemes facilitate visual and auditory word recognition, and to what extent potential priming effects are independent of the phonological overlap typically inherent in morphological relationships. These experiments make use of the visual masked (Forster and Davis, 1984) and auditory masked (Kouider and Dupoux, 2005) priming techniques. The results of the experiments show that not only do roots facilitate visual and auditory word recognition in Maltese, but that these morphological effects are independent of phonological overlap effects.

ZYMAN AND KALIVODA AT STANFORD

On Friday January 26, graduate students Nick Kalivoda and Erik Zyman gave a talk on “XP- and X⁰-movement in the Latin Verb: Evidence from Mirroring and Anti-Mirroring” at Stanford’s Syntax and Morphology Circle. They report that they received a warm welcome and a great many helpful questions and suggestions, for which collēgīs Stanfordiēnsibus grātiās agunt.

HOW OUR READINGS ARE GROUPING THIS WEEK

SPLAP!: Monday, 12:20 – 1:20 pm, LCR There will be a discussion of a paper titled “Presupposition projection in online processing” (Schwarz and Tiemann 2017)

LaLoCo: Tuesday, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Stevenson 217 Continued discussion of word2vec and related word-meaning models. The focus will be specifically on two papers: “Distributed Representations of Words and Phrases and their Compositionality” and “GloVe: Global Vectors for Word Representation”

LIP: Thursday, 11:00 – 12:00 pm, LCR Grant McGuire will present data from a Turkish prosody project

s/lab: Thursday, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, LCR Matt Wagers will be presenting

Phlunch: Friday, 1:30 – 2:30 pm, LCR Netta Ben-Meir will lead a discussion of a paper titled “Phonetic neutralization in Palestinian Arabic vowel shortening, with implications for lexical organization” (Hall 2017)

HOW OUR READINGS ARE GROUPING THIS WEEK

SPLAP!: Monday, 12:20 – 1:20 pm, LCR There will be a discussion of Van der Sandt’s theory of presuppositions as anaphoric expressions in DRT (discourse representation theory)

LaLoCo: Tuesday, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Stevenson 217 There will be a discussion of the paper “Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space” (Mikolov et al 2013)

s/lab: Thursday, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, LCR Nick Van Handel will be leading a discussion of “Processing multiple gap dependencies: Forewarned is forearmed” (Parker 2017)

Phlunch: Friday, 1:30 – 2:30 pm, LCR Grant McGuire will be leading a discussion of the paper “Individual differences and patterns of convergence in prosody perception” (Roy, Cole, and Mahrt 2017)

WLMA: Friday, 3:00 – 4:00 pm, Stevenson 217 There will be a discussion of the paper “Ergativity and the complexity of extraction: a view from Mayan” (Clemens et al 2015)

HOW OUR READINGS ARE GROUPING THIS WEEK

SPLAP!: Monday, 12:20 – 1:20 pm, LCR There will be a discussion of Kadmon’s 2001 book “Formal Pragmatics”, focused on Chapters 5 and 9

LaLoCo: Tuesday, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Stevenson 217 Continued discussion of the gensim package and examination of some Latent Semantic Analysis models created with it from the Brown corpus as well as the entire Wikipedia

LIP: Thursday, 11:00 – 12:00 pm, LCR There will be a discussion of Chen et al. (2017), a paper titled “Effect of early dialectal exposure on adult perception of phonemic vowel length”

s/lab: Thursday, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, LCR Adrian Brasoveanu will present his joint work with Jakub Dotlacil in a talk entitled “Quantitative Comparison for Generative Theories: Embedding Competence-Performance Linguistic Theories into Bayesian Models”

Phlunch: Friday, 1:30 – 2:30 pm, LCR Nick Van Handel will be leading a discussion of Wagner et al (2006), a paper titled “Formant transitions in fricative identification: The role of native fricative inventory”

S-circle: Friday, 1:20 – 2:50 pm, Stevenson 217 Line Mikkelsen (UC Berkeley) and Boris Harizanov (Stanford) will be presenting, title TBA

WLMA: Friday, 3:00 – 4:00 pm, Stevenson 217 Jason Ostrove will present his work titled “Syntactic “Ergativity” in an Active/Stative Language: The view from San Martín Peras Mixtec”

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