Baggett Lecture 1: Elissa Newport (Georgetown)
Time:
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Location:
Maryland Room, Marie Mount Hall
Distinguished psycholinguist Elissa Newport – Professor at the Georgetown University Medical Center, Director of its Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery, and Principal Investigator within the Learning and Development Lab – will be giving a series of three lectures, generously supported by Dave Baggett.
Lecture 1: Statistical language learning: From word segmentation to phrase structure