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Lila Gleitman and Norvin Richards at McGill

By chael | Published: September 12, 2010
Two great talks coming up: The CRLMB Distinguished Lecture Series presents: Lila Gleitman: If the shoe fits: Earliest steps in vocabulary acquisition Time: Thursday, Sep. 16, 2010 – 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM Location: Leacock Building, Room 232, 855 Sherbrooke Street West As a precondition for entering the human community, infants must efficiently and rapidly [...]
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issp in montreal

By chael | Published: September 5, 2010
The next International Seminar on Speech Production will take place next summer in Montreal. Here’s the call for papers: We are pleased to announce that the the ninth International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP’11) will be held in Montreal, Canada from June 20th to 23rd, 2011. ISSP’11 is the continuation of a series of seminars [...]
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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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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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brams scientific day 2010

By chael | Published: April 13, 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 [...]
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mcclu

By chael | Published: March 9, 2010
This weekend, mcclue, McGill’s Canadian Conference for Linguistics Undergraduates, is taking place. It is organized by slum, the society of linguistics undergraduates at McGill.
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phonology strikes back

By chael | Published: March 3, 2010
After this week’s TOM (Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal Semantics Workshop) at McGill, the phonologists will have their say at next week’s MOT (Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop) at Carleton.
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tom this saturday

By chael | Published: March 2, 2010
More stuff going this week at McGill than just mg3: TOM, the Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal workshop on semantics is taking place this Saturday. Here’s the program: TOM.
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music and gesture 3

By chael | Published: March 1, 2010
This weekend, the third conference on music and gesture will take place in Montreal this coming Friday and Saturday. Marcin Swoboda and I will be presenting on Encoding emotion: how performers manipulate tempo locally to convey affect. The conference forms part of the musimars music festival, organized this year under the theme ‘gestural music–musical gesture.’ [...]
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