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radiolab on language

By chael | Published: August 12, 2010
Radiolab’s interesting current podcast is about language. Radiolab is a great radio show about science, and it differs from your typical media outlet on science in that its topics are often drawn from cognitive science. I can think of a bunch of questions relating to the strong claims made in the show about how [...]
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paper on rhyme

By chael | Published: August 8, 2010
Something everyone seems to have intuitions about is: What types of rhyme sound good? What types of rhyme sound bad? One particular type of rhyme, called ‘identity rhyme’ (write/right, to bear, a bear), is licit in French but quite poor in English (So poor indeed that King James proscribed the use of identity rhymes [...]
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mosaic 2

By chael | Published: May 21, 2010
Mosaic 2, the second workshop of semanticists active in Canada, is just around the corner. The program is posted here.
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angelika kratzer and lisa selkirk at mcGill

By chael | Published: May 21, 2010
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.
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6th international workshop on language production

By chael | Published: May 6, 2010
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 [...]
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cornell workshop on grammar induction

By chael | Published: May 6, 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 [...]
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florian jaeger and dave embick at mcgill

By chael | Published: May 2, 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 [...]
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syracuse interface workshop

By chael | Published: April 20, 2010
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 [...]
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womm! 2010

By chael | Published: April 16, 2010
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 [...]
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mosaic 2

By chael | Published: April 13, 2010
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.
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