Angelika Kratzer and Lisa Selkirk will be visiting at McGill. The schedule of the presentations is posted here. This visit is part of the mcsirg interface group at McGill. They will also present as invited speakers at the Mosaic workshop on June 1st.
This looks like it’s going to be an interesting event, conveniently scheduled right before AMLaP at York University:
The School of Psychology at The University of Dundee and the Department of Psychology at The University of Edinburgh are pleased to announce the 6th International Workshop on Language Production. The workshop is dedicated to fostering an interdisciplinary approach to language production research by including work in areas such as psycholinguistics, cognitive neuropsychology, linguistics, computational modelling, and neuroimaging. It will be organized around tutorial-like talks intended to provide a review of research questions and stimulate discussion. The workshop program also includes poster sessions to offer graduate students and others the opportunity to showcase their most recent findings.
Location: Edinburgh
Date: September 2-4, 2010
Deadline for Poster Submission: June 1, 2010
Another reminder about the Cornell Workshop on Grammar Induction, which is coming closer. The workshop features quite an amazing line up of talks:
Cornell Workshop on Grammar Induction will bring together researchers from the fields of linguistics, psychology, and computer science who work on issues of learning and learnability in language. Our goal is to facilitate the exchange of ideas between researchers approaching similar problems with the perspectives and methodologies of diverse fields.
Date: 14-May-2010 – 16-May-2010
Florian Jaeger will give an invited lecture for the CRLMB consisting of two mini-talks this Monday, May 3rd, as part of the WOMM! Statistics workshop on logit mixed models. Titles: “Efficiency in production: How speakers design their utterances to distribute information uniformly” and “Syntax in flux: Syntactic adaptation in adults.” The lecture is open to all and will take place on Monday, May 3rd at 2 p.m. in Room 501 of the Goodman Cancer Research Centre, 1160 Pine Ave. West.
Dave Embick will give a talk this Wednesday, May 5 2010, 3 p.m. in Room Arts 160, as part of the McSirg team grant. The title of the talk is “Towards a theory of stem alternations.”
The NYT features an article on an interesting project on endangered languages spoken in NYC.
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour and Jaklin Kornfilt have organized an interface workshop at Syracuse University. You can download the program with abstracts here.
Here’s the schedule (Friday April 23 and Saturday April 24):
Friday April 23, 2010
Morning Session HL (Hall of Languages) 107
8:00 am Coffee and bagels
8:45 am Opening remarks
Chair: Jaklin Kornfilt, Syracuse University
9 am – 10 am Lisa Selkirk (UMass, Amherst): Reconceptualizing prosodic structure formation and its role in the syntax-phonology interface
10 am – 11 am Bridget Samuels (U Maryland, College Park): I-phrases and PF crashes
11 am – 12 pm Jason Kandybowicz (Swarthmore College): Syntactic and Prosodic Alignment: a Case Study from Twi Do-insertion
Afternoon Sessions Kittredge Auditorium
12 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch Break
Session 1 Chair: Jeff Runner, University of Rochester
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Molly Diesing and Draga Zec (Cornell): The positions of clitics in discourse
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Michael Wagner (McGill): Contrastive topics decomposed
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm Coffee Break
Session 2 Chair: John Whitman, Cornell University
4 pm – 5 pm Christine Gunlogson (U Rochester): On tag questions
5 pm – 6 pm Mats Rooth (Cornell): Localizing the Phonology Interface for Alternative Semantics
6:30 pm Reception
Saturday April 24, 2010 HL (Hall of Languages) 207
7:45 am Coffee and bagels
Session 1 Chair: Arsalan Kahnemuyipour, Syracuse University
8:30 am – 9:30 am David Embick (UPenn): Towards a theory of stem alternations
9:30 am – 10:30 am Heidi Harley (U Arizona): Accounting for morphology/syntax mismatches: the Fun House Mirror Principle
10:30 am – 11:00 am Coffee Break
Session 2 Chair: Greg Carlson, University of Rochester
11 am -12 pm Joyce McDonough (U Rochester): Defining the units inside a word: A paradigm-driven approach to Dene polysynthesis
12 pm – 1 pm Martina Wiltschko (UBC): Category, sound, and meaning: Exploring the syntax of polysemy
Workshop on Mixed Models on May 3rd and May 4th 2010
[The slides from the workshop are now posted on Florian's blog. Thanks everyone who participated for making this an interesting event!]
The gripp reading group at McGill and the CRLMB are organizing a statistics workshop on logit mixed models.
The workshop will feature lectures and tutorials on ordinary and multilevel/mixed models by Florian Jaeger (University of Rochester), Maureen Gillespie (Northeastern), and Peter Graff (MIT).
Sponsors: CRLMB, prosody.lab, the Mcgill Infant
Development Cluster, the PoP lab, the Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience
training grant, Digging into Data (SSHRC/NSF), and BRAMS.
The workshop will take place at McGill. The precise schedule is still to
be determined, the current plan looks like this:
Monday
10-1
Introduction to Generalized Linear and Generalized Linear Mixed Models
(Florian Jaeger)
1-2
Lunch (provided for registered participants)
2-3.30
Public Talk by Florian Jaeger
Room 501 of the Goodman Cancer Research Centre, 1160 Pine Ave. West.
4-5.30
Hands-on Tutorial: Implementing Hypotheses: Coding
(Maureen Gillespie)
Tuesday
10-1
Common issues and solutions in regression analyses (Florian Jaeger)
Lunch (provided for registered participants)
2-3.30
Comparing linguistic theories using logistic regression (Peter Graff)
4-5.30
Hands-on Tutorial: Bring your own data
There will be a party, probably on the evening Monday May 3rd. There
will be a fee of $10 to set off cost for coffee and food.
If you are interested in participating, please register here.
Registration will be first-come-first-served, but priority will be given
to members of the sponsoring labs and institutions. We’ll try to
accommodate everyone, but the earlier you register the better!
We’ll send more detailed information to all registered people closer to
the workshop. You can bring your own laptop with R installed
(instructions how to do this and which packages you will need will be
sent out before the workshop).
If you have any questions, please send an email here, or contact one of
the organizers:
womm2010@gmail.com
Hope to see you there!
The Organizers.
Aparna Nadig, Kris Onishi , Michael Wagner.
The program for Mosaic 2, the meeting of semanticists active in Canada, is now online. It will take place on June 1st at McGill, as a satellite workshop to the cla/acl meeting at Concordia.
If you plan on attending, please register here.
The CNS annual meeting in Montréal is looming. Here are some links to prosody-related posters from the website. This list is not intended to be complete in any way, it’s just what I saw while gleaning through the list in the last 15min:
Session D Sunday April 18 5:00 – 7:00 pm
D32 When Prosodic Perception is Overridden: An ERP Study of the Compound/Phrasal Stress Distinction in EnglishStewart McCauley, Arild Hestvik, Irene Vogel (University of Delaware)
D38 How is prosodic processing lateralized in the brain?Jurriaan Witteman, Niels Schiller, Vincent Van Heuven (Leiden University)
Session E Monday April 19 8:00 – 10:00 am
E11 Eye movement, and ERPs and Prosody
Shani H. Abada, John E. Drury, Karsten Steinhauer, Shari R. Baum (McGill University)
E19 Closure Positive Shifts (CPS) : evoked by prosodic rhythm-groups in meaningful and meaningless speech Annie C. Gilbert, Boutheina Jemel, Victor J. Boucher1; (Université de Montréal)
E22 Neural correlates of the perception of prosodic focus in French: an fMRI study Marcela Perrone1, Marion Dohen2, Hélène Loevenbruck2, Marc Sato2, Cédric Pichat1, Gaëtan Yvert1, Monica Baciu1;1Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition, 2GIPSA-lab
E28 Prosodic phrasing in spoken Korean garden path sentences: An ERP study Hyekyung Hwang1, Karsten Steinhauer (McGill)
Session I Tuesday April 20 3:00 – 5:00 pm
I5 Prosody is the key: ERP studies on word segmentation in 6 and 12-month-old German infants Claudia Männel, Angela D. Friederic (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany)
I22 Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Syntactic and Prosodic Complexity EffectsAsaf Bachrach, Elodie Cauvet, Christophe Pallier (INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, Neurospin, France)
mosaic 2
Mosaic 2, the second workshop of semanticists active in Canada, is just around the corner. The program is posted here.