Language Science Lunch Talks
Lunch served at 12:15, talk starts at 12:30.
How many grammars of Accusative-and-Infinitive constructions can we prove there to be in English?
Lunch served by 12:15, talk starts at 12:30.
Zara Harmon (Postdoc, LING/UMIACS)
Morphological Productivity: what do we learn from comprehension and production?
Abstract TBA.
Lunch available at 12:15, first talk begins promptly at 12:30.
DOUBLE HEADER!
Kathleen Oppenheimer (HESP)
Effects of Verb Bias and Plausibility on Children's Processing of Ambiguous Sentences
Lunch talk double-header!
Mina Hirzel (LING)
Young children’s elicited productions of modal words: children differentiate modal “flavors” and forces
Paulina Lyskawa (LING) & Bethany Dickerson (UMass)
Phonological representation in two laryngeal systems
Assisting Interpreters with Technical Terms
Abstract: To assist simultaneous interpreters with their work, one needs to find a balance between providing useful information and minimizing distraction. This talk will discuss a simple method for detecting and translating technical terms and a crowdsourced experiment to determine whether the method strikes the right balance for interpreter assistance--without actually using interpreters.
Lunch served by 12:15.
Title: Improving access to bilingual education in DC at the DC Language Immersion Project
Lunch served at 12:15.
Title: Outputs as inputs: Sequential model of the products of infant “statistical learning” of language
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