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Join the School of Language, Literatures, and Cultures for a candidate presentation in Second Language Acquisition.

Honors Thesis Defense: Following the Conversation: Impacts of Set-Shifting and Topic-Shifting in Healthy Adults and Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury

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How does being deaf (or knowing sign language) change perception?

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Honors Thesis Defense: Perspectives on non-mainstream dialect, particularly African American English and how they communicate these perspectives to their children

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Honors Thesis Defense: On the level of dependency of across-frequency binaural interference

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Validation of a comprehensive list of values in audiology

SMPL Concepts, Conjunctive Meanings

For this Linguistics General Meeting welcomes home our Emeritus comrade, Paul Pietroski, to tell us about his recent work on a proof theory for natural language semantics, abstracted below.

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SMPL Concepts, Conjunctive Meanings

Alum Brian Dillon returns to Maryland for the Linguistic Colloquium, to present his work on how the grammar of a given language influences how we encode linguistic input in working memory. See the official calendar event from the Department of Linguistics here.

In this talk, Leslie Li gives an informal and non-mathy introduction to speech transformers, and why they have been so popular in deep learning. Leslie will also talk about the training of transformers, and how they are used in speech recognition and self-supervised learning.

Infant Origins of Social Cognition

This session of the Developmental Science Invited Speaker series features Amanda Woodward's talk, as well as opportunities for lunch, individual, and group meetings with Dr. Woodward. If you are interested in attending the talk, scheduling lunch, or attending a meeting, click here to RSVP by 5:00 PM on February 16th, 2024.

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