syracuse interface workshop

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

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womm! 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 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.

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mosaic 2

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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some prosody stuff at cns

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)

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brams scientific day 2010

This looks pretty interesting: Brams scientific day

BRAMS is pleased to announce a full-day symposium on Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience. This event will double as the 2010 BRAMS Scientific Day, and will be held on April 16th 2010. The symposium will be held one day before the Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting in the Jeanne Timmins auditorium of the Montreal Neurological Institute.

Brams is the International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research. Prosody.lab is currently running a study on Euroopean and Québec French in their fancy lab-space over at Université de Montréal.

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phonlex 2010

Phonlex 2010

Extended Deadline: 16th of April, 2010

The Phonlex project (From Phonology to the Lexicon: liaison and cognition in
contemporary French) brings together 4 linguistic and psycholinguistic
research teams in Toulouse, Grenoble and Paris. These teams have been
investigating various dimensions of French liaison: phonological and
phonetic aspects, regional variation, the synchronic and diachronic
dimension, oral developmental issues as well as liaison in written production.
These topics will constitute the core of our conference. However, French
liaison is not an isolated sandhi phenomenon within the languages of the
world and we therefore welcome papers which discuss the wider issue of
word-segmentation and adjustments at word-boundaries.

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on linguistic lnterfaces II

The deadline for abstract submission for on linguistic lnterfaces is approaching.

Date: 02-Dec-2010 – 04-Dec-2010
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Deadline for abstract submission: April 30

A full description of our knowledge of language must include reference to several different components, each with its own particular properties. These components must interact with each other, and with a lexicon, which we may think of as a system of stored associations between pieces of information pertaining to many of the above components. In recent years, the study of the interaction between these different levels of linguistic knowledge has attracted increasing interest. The nature and extent of the interaction of different linguistic modules is a central question to be addressed by a modern theory of linguistic knowledge.

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workshop on prosodic development

The program of the workshop on prosodic development, organized by Pilar Prieto is now available online.

The main goal of this one-day workshop is to discuss different aspects of the children’s prosodic development in different languages. Discussions will address specific questions regarding the influence of language-specific distributional and frequency properties on language development and also the influence of general production and perception constraints. One of the goals will be to try to bridge the gap between perception and production studies in prosodic development.

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frontiers of prosody

A call for frontiers of prosody, a conference to take place in Leiden, Netherlands, was just posted:

We welcome the submission of work which uses behavioral and neuroimaging methods to address the role of prosodic information in production and comprehension, including individual variation and effects that can be attributed to typologically different prosodic systems.

Deadline for abstract submission: August 15, 2010
Workshop: November 19-20, 2010 in Leiden, Netherlands

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amlap 2010

AMLaP is an international conference which has established itself as the premier European venue for interdisciplinary research into how people process language. The aim of the conference is to bring together psychological, computational, and theoretical perspectives on the cognitive mechanisms which underlie any aspect of human language processing. Submissions which integrate experimental psycholinguistic evidence with formal or computational models of psychological processes are especially encouraged.

6th – 8th September 2010, York, UK

Submission Dates: Abstract submission will open May 1st. Abstracts due by May 28th.

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