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This is the second in a series of three lectures by distinguished phonologist Paul Smolensky, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University, generously supported by Dave Baggett.

Overview of the lectures

This is the first in a series of three lectures by distinguished phonologist Paul Smolensky, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University, generously supported by Dave Baggett.

Overview of the lectures

Stress management for graduate students presented by the University of Maryland Health Center

On the algorithmic beauty of language

In this talk I discuss an analysis of linguistic categories, and their possible (standard) combinations, in terms of matrix mechanics. I concentrate on the initial conditions of the system only – technically called First Merge (1st M).

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Title: Is Basque an ergative language?


Title: Constraints and Mechanisms of Long-Distance Dependency Formation

This talk has been canceled.

Title: Learning the meanings of verbs (and some nouns) from (the right) linguistic context

The Ins and Outs of Preposition Semantics: Challenges of Coverage and Cross-linguistic Adequacy

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