Language Acquisition

LING Colloquium: Athulya Aravind (MIT)

TBA

DevSci Colloquium: Kathryn Leech (UNC)

TBA

Dissertation defense: Allison Johnson (HESP)

Zoom: https://go.umd.edu/lslt-zoom

Spectral contrasts produced by children with cochlear implants: Investigating the impact of signal degradation on speech acquisition

CLIP Colloquium: Zara Harmon (LING/UMIACS)

Zoom: https://umd.zoom.us/j/98806584197?pwd=SXBWOHE1cU9adFFKUmN2UVlwUEJXdz09

Understanding Automaticity in Language

Linguistics General Meeting: Leslie Li (LING)

How much rhythm in language is in short-time acoustics?

Linguistics General Meeting: Aquisition of clause types and speech acts

Dan Goodhue, Jeff Lidz, Yu’an Yang and Valentine Hacquard will present a project they have been developing on children's acquisition of clause types and speech acts, reporting some preliminary results of work they've done. Here's an overview of the topic.

LSLT: Craig Thorburn (LING)

Learning speech sounds through a video game: A reinforcement account

CLIP Colloquium: Lisa Pearl (UC Irvine)

**Please note that the time differs from the regular meeting time**

How children are and aren’t like adults when it comes to interpreting pronouns: A developmental modeling investigation

NACS Seminar: Anne Fernald (Stanford)

Resolved: It is “alarming for both scientific and ethical reasons” to encourage talking with young children in non-Western societies. Really??

Dev Sci Colloquium: Adriana Weisleder (Northwestern)

Does Talking to Children Matter? A New Look at Past Work