Linguistics
In-person watch party in 1108B Marie Mount Hall.
You linguist! On vocatives and expressivity
Adam Liter leads the General Meeting with a presentation of work within his dissertation project, "Subjacency, the Empty Category Principle, and the nature of constraints on phrase movement."
How much rhythm in language is in short-time acoustics?
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.
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Stream on YouTube: https://youtu.be/3yQLqGtkHRM
Online regularities and prior knowledge conspire to shape speech perception
Nataliya Stepanova -- a Math and CS double degree student and Linguistics minor, and an alum of LSC’s PULSAR undergraduate research program -- has become the University’s sixth (ever) recipient of a Marshall Scholarship. Pandemic permitting, she will be heading to Scotland in the Fall to earn a Master’s in Speech and Language Processing at the University of Edinburgh.
Degreefulness is the result of functional inventory, not a parameter
(joint work with Margit Bowler, Emily Hanink and Andrew Koontz-Garboden, University of Manchester)
Precise meanings and loose concepts: Roles for underdetermination and imprecision in formal semantics
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