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Philosophy Colloquium: Michael Glanzberg (Rutgers)

 

Precise meanings and loose concepts: Roles for underdetermination and imprecision in formal semantics

DevSci Workshop: Endless Possibilities
 
Endless Possibilities: The Development of Possibility and Necessity in Cognition, Language, and Society
 
Invited speakers:
LSLT: Tyler Knowlton (LING)

 

Meaning Through the Ages

CLIP Colloquium: Claire Bonial (ARL)


Title: Event Semantics in Text Constructions, Vision, and Human-Robot Dialogue

Verb Learning Under Guidance: Syntax-to-Semantics Inferences

Angela Xiaoxue He will present her dissertation defense on "Verb Learning Under Guidance: Syntax-to-Semantics Inferences."

 

Psycholing Lab: Kate Harrigan, Ellen Lau (double header)

Psycholinguistics Lab meeting. Fridays, 12:00 - 1:30. Linguistics Dept seminar room, 1108B Marie Mount Hall.

On October 10th we'll have a double-header featuring Kate Harrigan, discussing her work on how children learn and understand very-hard-to-observe words, such as "want", "think", and "hope". Then Ellen Lau will talk about some of her recent work on ERPs and predictive processes ("Events vs. Entities with ERPs").

All welcome.

5th Annual Language Science Day Highlights Many New Initiatives
Language Science Day 2014

LSD marked the 1-year anniversary of the Maryland Language Science Center, showcasing many ideas and initiatives launched over the past year.

Language Science Day 2015

Language Science Lunch Talks

Food and ideas bring people together

Language Structure and Meaning
Words and sentences have parts that combine in patterns, exhibiting the grammar of the language. Phonology is the study of patterns in sound or gesture. Syntax and Semantics involve studying patterns in sentence structure, from the vantages of form and meaning, respectively. The shared aim is a general theory of human grammars, one that allows us to understand speakers' ability to use language and the rapid development of language in every normal child. 
 

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