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two talks at mcgill on friday
Two talks on Friday, April 8 2011 at McGill within a block’s distance: Cognitive Brownbag Seminar: Elena Koulaguina & Rushen Shi (Uqam): Abstract rules, exceptions and morphological markings in early language acquisition Time: 11:30-12:30pm Location: S3/4 Stewart Bio Special Edition of the GRIPP reading group: Khalil Iskarous (Fullbright Fellow at CRLMB/Haskins): The Geometry of Statistics [...]
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mot program
The program for this year’s MOT in honor of Glyne Pigott is now posted. Registration is now open. Note that if you want to attend the banquet, you’ll have to register by April 18. You’ll find information about accommodation here.
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richard aslin at mcgill
Richard Aslin (University of Rochester, USA) is giving a Hebb Colloquium tomorrow. Time: 3.30pm. Location: Room S1/3 in the Stewart Psychology Building at McGill. The Dynamics of Information Processing in Infants: Eye-tracking and Neuroimaging. Abstract: Infants are capable of rapidly learning the distributional properties of information in a wide variety of domains. This mechanism of [...]
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prosody.lab at cuny
prosody.lab-related posters at cuny: Hyekyung Hwang, Michael Wagner and Karsten Steinhauer: On word order, prosody, and focus. [abstract] Efrat Pauker, Michael Wagner, Meghan Clayards, Hyekyung Hwang, Shari Baum and Karsten Steinhauer: Relative prosodic boundary strength and syntactic ambiguity resolution. [abstract] Andrea Santi, Nino Grillo, Yosef Grodzinsky and Michael Wagner: Planned Production and Self-Paced Reading of [...]
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workshop on argument structure
Structuring the Argument A multidisciplinary workshop on the mental representation of verbal argument structure Paris 5-7 of september 2011 (following Amlap) Location: CNRS, Centre pouchet Paris 75017 Invited speakers: John Beavers (University of Texas) Alec Marantz (NYU) Josep Quer (ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Jesse Snedeker (Harvard) Cynthia Thompson (Northwestern) Call for papers: The aim of this [...]
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two phonology workshops at the lsa
Testing Models of Phonetics and Phonology Call for Posters Deadline: May 1 2011 Conference Website Workshop at the Linguistic Institute 2011: Language in the World University of Colorado at Boulder Wednesday, July 13th, 2011 This single day workshop aims to build connections between computational, experimental, and grammar-based research on phonetics and phonology. Studies using each [...]
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etap 2: Prosody in Context
Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP) 2 Prosody in Context Where? McGill University, Montreal When? September 23-25 2011 Contact: etap2011@gmail.com Conference Website Deadline for submissions: May 15 2011 Notification of acceptance: June 15 July 15 2011. The second conference on Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP) is taking place this coming September 23-25 [...]
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Sara Mackenzie Talk
Sara Mackenzie is given a talk tomorrow in our Colloquium Series: Sara Mackenzie (McGill University) Time: 3.30pm Place: Ferrier Building, room 456 Title: Ordering Restrictions in Aymara: the role of contrast and markedness
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Aditi Lahiri and Henning Reetz at McGill
On March 18, Aditi Lahiri and Henning Reetz will be giving talks at McGill. 1.30pm CLRMB Distinguished Lecture Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Research Centre, Montreal 1160, av. des Pins Ouest, Room 501 Aditi Lahiri (Oxford University): WORDS: asymmetries in representation, processing and change Abstract: Language systems abound in asymmetries — in inventories, representations and [...]
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