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cornell workshop on grammar induction

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 and dave embick at mcgill

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.”

endangered languages in urban settings

The NYT features an article on an interesting project on endangered languages spoken in NYC.

syracuse interface workshop

Arsalan Kahnemuyipour and Jaklin Kornfilt have organized an interface workshop at Syracuse University. You can download the program with abstracts here.

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.

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.

some prosody stuff at cns

TheCNS 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:

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.

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.

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.