Department of Linguistics

Archived Events

2007 Events

[25 Jun] PHD DEFENSE 3:00pm MMH 1108B
Matt Wagers: The structure of memory meets memory for structure

[12 Jun] 895 DEFENSE 2:00pm MMH 1108B
Shiti Malhotra: On Wh-Quantifier Interactions

[23 May] 10:00am MMH 1400
Department Commencement Ceremony

[22 May] 2:00pm MMH 1108B
Akira Omaki and Stacey Conroy: An experimental investigation of referential/nonreferential asymmetries in syntactic reconstruction

[20 May] SYNTAX LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Islands discussion

[14 May] SYNTAX LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Chizuru Nakao: On Focus of Negation & Atakan Ince: On Right Node Raising

[13 May] 5:00pm MMH 1108B
LGSA Meeting

[13 May] SYNTAX LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Mayfest debriefing

[9 May - 10 May] MAYFEST
2008 Mayfest: Island Perspectives

[8 May] COLLOQUIUM 3:30pm MMH 1108B
Nomi Erteschik-Shir: The phonology of adverb placement, Object Shift and V-2; the case of Danish 'MON'

[6 May] PHD DEFENSE 1:30pm MMH 1108B
Anastasia Conroy: Verification Strategies and Ambiguity Resolution

[2 May] HONORS PRESENTATION 2:00pm MMH 1304
Cynthia Lukyanenko: Principle C in 30 Month olds

[30 Apr] LAB MEETING 9:30am MMH 3416
SOUND++: Motor Theory Reviewed

[29 Apr] 895 DEFENSE 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Atakan Ince: Non-Wh Phrases in Sluicing in Turkish

[25 Apr] COLLOQUIUM 2:00pm MMH 1304
Neal Pearlmutter: Semantic Integration and Timing of Planning During Language Production

[24 Apr] CNL LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
SoOne Hwang: The Perceptual Consequences of Voicing Mismatch in Obstruent Consonant Clusters

[23 Apr] LAB MEETING 9:30am MMH 3416
SOUND++: CNS 2008 Post-game show

[22 Apr] SYNTAX LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Jeff Lidz: Island introducing reflexives in Kannada

[17 Apr] CNL LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Greg Cogan

[15 Apr] SYNTAX LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Dave Kush: Informational Isthmuses: On the Topic of Clefts and Relative Clause Islands.

[9 Apr] LAB MEETING 9:30am MMH 3416
SOUND++: CNS 2008 Poster Practice Session

[3 Apr] CNL LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Diogo Almeida: What can electrophysiology tell us about word recognition?

[31 Mar] PHD DEFENSE 9:00am MMH 1108B
Ivan Ortega-Santos: On Displacement in Natural Language: The English and Spanish Case

[28 Mar] LAB MEETING 9:30pm 1108B
Stacey Conroy: PP attachment in kids

[28 Mar] COLLOQUIUM 2:00pm MMH 1304
Janet Randall: Arguments at the Interface: the Isomorphic Linking Hypothesis

[17 Mar - 21 Mar]
Spring Break

[12 Mar] LAB MEETING 9:30am MMH 3416
Anthony Boemio (NIH): Speech Perception & fMRI

[10 Mar] 895 DEFENSE 10:30am MMH 1108B
Tim Hunter: What movement and adjunction really mean

[7 Mar] COLLOQUIUM 2:00pm MMH 1304
Chris Kennedy: An 'Average' Semantics

[4 Mar] SYNTAX LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
ECO5 Practice talk: Alex Drummond `Reconstruction and English PPs'

[28 Feb] CNL LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Josh Riley and Valentine Hacquard: Less to More: Directional Frequency Gaps and the Mismatch Response in MEG

[26 Feb] SYNTAX LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
ECO5 Practice talks: So-One Hwang and Johannes Jurka

[22 Feb] COLLOQUIUM 2:00pm MMH 1304
LouAnn Gerken: Exploring a Hypothesis Selection Approach to Language Acquisition

[20 Feb] LAB MEETING 9:30am 3416 MMH
Sound++: Basic Auditory Processes Involved in the Analysis of Speech Sounds

[19 Feb] SYNTAX LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
PLC practice talks: Chizuru Nakao and Shiti Malhotra

[15 Feb] COLLOQUIUM 2:00pm MMH 1304
Dominique Sportiche: Analytical Directions for the que/qui Alternation: French Subject extraction and the que/qui rule

[14 Feb] CNL LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Herman H.J. Kolk: The sceptical brain: how to monitor language perception

[13 Feb] LAB MEETING 9:30am MMH 3416
SOUND++: Neural Representation for Spectral and Temporal Information in Speech

[13 Feb] CLIP COLLOQUIUM 11:00am AVW 2460
Ed Hovy: Building large-scale shallow semantic resources for higher-quality NLP

[7 Feb] CNL LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Betty Tuller: Dynamics of phonological learning

[7 Feb] CLIP COLLOQUIUM 11:00am AVW 2460
David Smith: Bootstrapping Monolingual Parsers from Multilingual Data

[6 Feb] LAB MEETING 9:30am MMH 3416
SOUND++: Audio-Visual Perception

[6 Feb] CLIP COLLOQUIUM 11:00am AVW 2120
Smaranda Muresan: Learning Constraint-based Grammars from Representative Data

[4 Feb] CLIP COLLOQUIUM 11:00am AVW 2460
Aron Culotta: Learning to Extract Knowledge from Text

[1 Feb] COLLOQUIUM 2:00pm MMH 1304
Andrew Wedel: Modeling sublexical contrast maintenance as an emergent effect of lexical category competition.

[15 Jan] 895 DEFENSE 8:30am AVW 3126/3174
Michael Subotin: Conditional random fields for machine translation

[14 Dec] LAB MEETING 9:30am 1108B
Psycho Lab Meeting

[14 Dec] COLLOQUIUM 2:00pm MMH 1304
Rajesh Bhatt: The Argument Structue of Degree Heads

[13 Dec] 11:30am MMH 1108B
LGSA Meeting

[12 Dec] LAB MEETING 9:30am MMH 3416
SOUND++: MEG/EEG Data Analysis

[11 Dec] SYNTAX LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Tim Hunter: Phrase Structure and Conjunctivist Interpretation

[7 Dec] COLLOQUIUM 2:00pm MMH 1304
Dave Embick: Localism versus Globalism

[6 Dec] CNL LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Allison Blodgett: An initial account of the intonation of Emirati Arabic

[3 Dec] 4:00pm 2203 Art-Soc. Bldg
Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, Paul Pietroski: "Human Language: You Know More Than You Think"

[28 Nov] CLIP COLLOQUIUM 11:00am AVW 2120
Chris Callison-Burch: Paraphrasing and Translation

[27 Nov] COLLOQUIUM 11:30am MMH 1108b
Geraldine Legendre: Blocking Effects with French Inchoatives and Bidirectional Optimization

[15 Nov] CNL LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Mary Howard: Lateralization in Auditory Temporal Interval Processing: MEG Evidence

[13 Nov] 12:30pm McKeldin B0135
Stephan Greene & Philip Resnik: The Linguistics of 'Spin'

[13 Nov] 11:30am MMH 1108B
LGSA Meeting

[8 Nov] CNL LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Tim Hunter, Jeff Lidz & Paul Pietroski: Beyond Truth Conditions

[7 Nov - 9 Nov] BLACKWELL LECTURES 3pm Wed & Thu, 10am Fri; Maryland Room, MMH
Jerry Fodor: Against Darwinism

[31 Oct] CLIP COLLOQUIUM 11:00am AVW ECE 2460
Anton Rytting: Modeling word segmentation without assuming phonemic certainty

[26 Oct] LAB MEETING 9:30am MMH 1108B
BU practice talks: On Binding

[24 Oct] 12:00pm 0135 LeFrak Hall
Cynthia Thompson: Neural instantiation of verb argument structure processing

[23 Oct] SYNTAX LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Pritha Chandra & Atakan Ince: Genitive Subject Induced Derivational Islands

[19 Oct] LAB MEETING 9:30am MMH1108B
Clare Stroud: Spanish ERPs: MALC practice talk

[19 Oct] COLLOQUIUM 2:00pm MMH 1304
Matt Goldrick: Thinking Outside the Modules: Independence and Interaction in Spoken Production

[18 Oct] CNL LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Philip J. Monahan, Eri Takahashi, Chizuru Nakao & William Idsardi: On Japanese Speech Perception

[17 Oct] CLIP COLLOQUIUM 11:00am Kim Bldg 1105
Chris Dyer & Jimmy Lin: Applications of MapReduce in "Web-Scale" Information Processing

[16 Oct] SYNTAX LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Ivan Ortega-Santos: On the Emergence of Relativized Minimality

[11 Oct] CNL LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Rebecca Baier: Two-month-olds are sensitive to lip rounding in dynamic and static speech events

[10 Oct] LAB MEETING 9:30am MMH 1108B
SOUND++: Audio-visual Processing (without the audio)

[10 Oct] CLIP COLLOQUIUM 11:00am AVW 2120
Mary Harper: Mandarin Parsing and Language Models

[5 Oct] LAB MEETING 9:30am 1108b MMH
Annie Gagliardi: WH Questions in Infancy

[5 Oct] COLLOQUIUM 2:00pm MMH 1304
Robert Berwick: The Incredible Lightness of Being a Corpus

[3 Oct] LAB MEETING 9:30am MMH 1108B
SOUND++: MEG/Semantic Priming/N400

[2 Oct] 895 DEFENSE 5:00pm MMH 1108B
Philip J. Monahan: "Neuromagnetic Evidence for the Early Computation of Formant Ratios in Vowel Normalization"

[2 Oct] SYNTAX LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Atakan Ince: Gapping in Turkish

[28 Sep] 6:30pm
Department Party

[26 Sep] 895 DEFENSE 2:00pm MMH 1413
Ellen Lau: Time-course and localization of syntactic and semantic anomaly in sentence processing

[25 Sep] SYNTAX LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Scott Fults: Representations of Magnitude and Comparison

[20 Sep] CNL LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Annette Henderson: Conventionality and Preschoolers Word Learning

[18 Sep] SYNTAX LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Akira Omaki & Chizuru Nakao: Pre-spell-out copy deletion

[11 Sep] 1:00pm MMH 1108B
LGSA meeting

[5 Sep] CLIP COLLOQUIUM 11:00am AVW 2120
Matt Snover: Improving Automatic Machine Translation Using Comparable Corpora

[4 Sep] 5:15pm MMH 1108B
Taisuke Nishigauchi and Maki Kishida: Reflexive Binding and Attitudes `de se' (Syntax Lunch without lunch)

[4 Sep] 11:30am MMH 1108B
Department Council Meeting

[31 Aug] LAB MEETING 9:30am MMH 1108B
Psycholinguistics Group: Introductions

[30 Aug] CNL LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Stacey Conroy and Eri Takahashi: GALA practice talks

[29 Aug] LAB MEETING 9:30am MMH 1108B
SOUND++: Organizational Meeting

[28 Aug] 11:00am MMH 1108B
Department "Meet and Greet"

[24 Jul] 895 DEFENSE 1:30pm MMH 1108B
Rebecca McKeown: A Movement Account of Scandinavian Reflexives

[24 Jul] 895 DEFENSE 10:00am MMH 1108B
Eri Takahashi: Statistical Learning and Beyond in the Acquisition of Phrase Structure

[20 Jul] PHD DEFENSE 2:00pm MMH 1108B
Takuya Goro: Language-specific constraints on scope interpretation in first language acquisition

[27 Jun] PHD DEFENSE 2:00pm MMH 1108B
Jon Sprouse: A program for experimental syntax

[20 Jun] 3:30pm MMH 1108B
David Gow: Functional Architecture of Speech Processing

[19 Jun] PHD DEFENSE 9:00am MMH 1108B
Usama Soltan: On Formal Feature Licensing in Minimalism

[13 Jun] LAB MEETING 9:30am MMH 3416
SOUND++: Feature Parsing: Feature Cue Mapping in Spoken Word Recognition

[13 Jun] PHD DEFENSE 9:00am MMH 1413
Stephan Greene: Spin: Lexical Semantics, Transitivity, and the Identification of Implicit Sentiment

[30 May] LAB MEETING 9:30am MMH 3416
SOUND++: Project discussions/updates

[24 May] LAB MEETING 2:00pm MMH 1401
Working Memory and LFs

[23 May] LAB MEETING 9:00am MMH 3416
SOUND++: Morphological decomposition and its neural basis

[21 May] 10:30am MMH 1400
Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony

[16 May] LAB MEETING 9:00am MMH 3416
SOUND++: Huan Luo practice Job talk

[11 May - 12 May] MAYFEST Maryland Room, MMH
Where, When and Why is Hierarchy Needed?

[10 May] 895 DEFENSE 2:00pm MMH 1108B
Yuval Marton: Word Recognition

[10 May] CNL LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Alan Munn: Acquiring Definiteness

[9 May] SYNTAX LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Shin Tanigawa: Clause-initial PP Adjuncts in English

[7 May] 12:00pm MMH 1108B
LGSA Meeting

[3 May] PHD DEFENSE 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Lisa Pearl: Necessary Bias in Natural Language Learning

[2 May] SYNTAX LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Asad Sayeed: Prepositions and Scrambling

[27 Apr] LAB MEETING 9:30am MMH 1108B
Takuya Goro: Language Acquisition and Freedom of Scope

[26 Apr] 895 DEFENSE 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Clare Stroud: Effects of Prior Syntactic Restrictions on Thematic Role Processing

[25 Apr] LAB MEETING 9:00am MMH 3416
SOUND++: Pure Word Deafness

[23 Apr] LAB MEETING 5:30pm MMH 1108B
Chizuru Nakao: On Crosslinguistic Variations in NPI Licensing [Syntax Lab Meeting]

[20 Apr] COLLOQUIUM 2:00pm MMH 1304
Alec Marantz: Restitutive re- and the first phase syntax/semantics of the VP

[19 Apr] CNL LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 3416
Matt Wagers & Ellen Lau: The prospect of agreement: detecting and correcting errors in comprehension

[18 Apr] LAB MEETING 9:00am MMH 3416
SOUND++: Formant Ratios: MEG Data

[18 Apr] SYNTAX LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Atakan Ince: Default Agreement in Turkish

[16 Apr] LAB MEETING 5:30pm MMH 1108B
Chizuru Nakao: Ross's Ch.5 (Part 2) [Syntax Lab Meeting]

[11 Apr] LAB MEETING 9:00am MMH 3416
SOUND++: L2 Vowel Learning

[11 Apr] SYNTAX LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Akira Omaki: Another look at affixal heads

[9 Apr] LAB MEETING 5:30pm 1108B
Rebecca McKeown: Ross's Ch.5 (Part 1) [Syntax Lab Meeting]

[6 Apr] COLLOQUIUM 2:00pm MMH 1304
Anthony Kroch: Was Old English a verb-second language?

[6 Apr] 11:00am CSIC Bldg, 2118
Graeme Hirst: Fine-Grained Differences and Similarities in Meanings

[4 Apr] LAB MEETING 9:00am MMH 3416
SOUND++: EEG, Morphological Processing, Finnish

[4 Apr] SYNTAX LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
E. Matt Husband: Stative Quantity

[28 Mar] CLIP COLLOQUIUM 11:30am AVW 2120
Hal Daume: Search-based Structured Prediction

[27 Mar] PHD DEFENSE 3:30pm MMH 1108B
Pritha Chandra: (Dis)Agree: Movement and Agreement Reconsidered

[19 Mar - 23 Mar]
Spring Break

[16 Mar] 12:00pm 1208 Biopsych
[NACS] Leslie Carver: Development of long-term memory in infancy (lunch to follow)

[15 Mar] CNL LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 3416
Akira Omaki et al: The time-course of anaphoric processing and syntactic reconstruction

[14 Mar] 9:00am MMH 3416
SOUND++: ASL Lexical Access: MEG Data

[14 Mar] SYNTAX LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Hee-Don Ahn: Lights Verbs in Korean

[13 Mar] 10:00am MMH 1401 Library
[Memory Reading Group] Stacey Conroy: Working Memory and Language Learning

[8 Mar - 9 Mar]
Prospective Students Visit

[7 Mar] LAB MEETING 9:00am MMH 3416
SOUND++: ASL Lexical Access: MEG Data

[7 Mar] SYNTAX LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Heather Taylor: The complementizer "the"

[7 Mar] CLIP COLLOQUIUM 11:30am AVW 2120
Tom Allen: Visual Language and Visual Learning

[2 Mar] COLLOQUIUM 2:00pm MMH 1304
Robin Clark: Number Sense and the Interpretation of Quantifiers

[1 Mar] 895 DEFENSE 10:00am JRN 1105
Chizuru Nakao: Copy free movement, Swiping and the ECP

[28 Feb] LAB MEETING 9:00am MMH 3416
SOUND++: TBA

[28 Feb] SYNTAX LUNCH 12:45pm MMH 1108B
Rebecca McKeown: Medium-distance reflexives

[28 Feb] CLIP COLLOQUIUM 11:30am Kim Eng. Bldg 1107
Bob Frank: Statistical induction, neural networks and grammatical knowledge

[27 Feb] COLLOQUIUM 11:00am MMH 0108
Tamina Stephenson: On the Role of Subjective Meaning

[23 Feb] COLLOQUIUM 2:00pm MMH 1108B
Chris Collins: An AAE Camouflage Construction

[23 Feb] COLLOQUIUM 11:00am MMH 0108
Eytan Zweig: When "Dogs" Are Not More Than One Dog

[21 Feb] SYNTAX LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Stacey Conroy: I'm going to do me a talk on personal datives

[21 Feb] CLIP COLLOQUIUM 11:30am AVW 2120
Hemant Joshi: Computational and Representational Models of Information Seeking Behavior

[20 Feb] LAB MEETING 9:30am 1401G
MEM/LG: Continued discussion of Cohen Poldrack Eichenbaum

[20 Feb] COLLOQUIUM 11:00am MMH 0108
Adrian Brasoveanu: Donkey Pluralities: Plural Information States vs. Non-Atomic Individuals

[16 Feb] LAB MEETING 9:30am 1108B
Psycho Lab Meeting: Matt Wagers -- The Impact of Resolved Filler-Gap Dependencies on Later Dependency Formation

[16 Feb] COLLOQUIUM 2:00pm MMH 1304
Alexander Williams: Objects in Causatives

[15 Feb] CNL LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 3416
Ming Xiang & Brian Dillon

[13 Feb] LAB MEETING 9:30am 1401G
MEM/LG: Ellen Lau -- Cognitive neuropsychology of procedural and declarative memory systems

[13 Feb] COLLOQUIUM 11:00am MMH 0108
Valentine Hacquard: On the Influence of Tense and Aspect on a Modal's Interpretation

[9 Feb] LAB MEETING 9:30am 1108B
Psycho Lab Meeting: Matt Husband

[8 Feb] CNL LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 3416
Lisa Pearl: At the Interface of Computational Learning Theory and Human Language Learning

[7 Feb] LAB MEETING 9:00am MMH 3416
SOUND++: Perception of Vowels using MEG

[24 Jan] CLIP COLLOQUIUM 11:00am AVW 2120
Abdur Chowdry: Duplicate Data Detection

2006 Events

[19 Dec] 895 DEFENSE 1:00pm MMH 1108B
Chunyuan Jing: Semantic and pragmatic factors in the acquisition of disjunction: evidence from Chinese and English

[11 Dec] 895 DEFENSE 3:30pm MMH 3416
Diogo Almeida: Effects of modality of input in word recognition

[8 Dec] COLLOQUIUM 2:00pm MMH 1108B
Frank Guenther: Auditory, Somatosensory, and Motor Interactions in Speech Production

[6 Dec] CLIP COLLOQUIUM 11:00am AVW 2120
Gideon Mann: Multi-document Database Extraction and Fusion

[5 Dec] SYNTAX LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Atakan Ince: Non-wh Phrases in Sluicing in Turkish

[1 Dec] COLLOQUIUM 2:00pm MMH 1304
Danny Fox: "Too Many Alternatives: density, symmetry and other predicaments"

[30 Nov] 4:00pm Stamp Student Union
Nora Newcombe: What do we mean when we say modularity? The case of the geometric module

[30 Nov] CNL LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 3416
Lisa Pearl & Jeff Lidz: Identifying the Contribution of Domain Specificity in Learning

[29 Nov] CLIP COLLOQUIUM 11:00am AVW 2120
Matt Kirschenbaum & Catherine Plaisant: What Literary Scholars Do With Bags of Words

[28 Nov] SYNTAX LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Ilhan Cagri: The Persian Accusative Morpheme and Topicalization

[17 Nov] COLLOQUIUM 2:00pm MMH 1304
Christina Tortora: Aspect inside Place PPs

[16 Nov] CNL LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 3416
Kristen Syrett: Adverbs highlight adjectives and object properties for 2.5-year-olds

[15 Nov] 895 DEFENSE 9:30am MMH 1108B
Anastasia Conroy: Why doesn't why invert?

[13 Nov] CLIP COLLOQUIUM 11:00am Hornbake 2119
Rob McArthur: Socio-cognitive Representation of Meaning in Electronic Communication

[10 Nov] CLIP COLLOQUIUM 11:00am CSIC 2120
Anton Leuski: Tracking Dragon-Hunters with Language Models

[8 Nov] CLIP COLLOQUIUM 11:00am AVW 2460
Yejun Wu: Attitude and Aspect Classification for English and Chinese Document Collections

[8 Nov - 10 Nov] BLACKWELL LECTURES 3pm Wed, 4pm Thu, 10am Fri; Maryland Room, MMH
Marc Hauser: Language, Mathematics and Morality

[1 Nov] CLIP COLLOQUIUM 11:00am AVW 2120
Chris Quirk: The importance and effectiveness of syntax in machine translation

[31 Oct] SYNTAX LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Hee-don Ahn: Submove Analysis of Nominals without Case Markers

[27 Oct] COLLOQUIUM 3:30pm MMH 1304
Delphine Dahan: The Dynamics of Spoken Word Recognition

[27 Oct] 2:00pm MMH 1304
Zoltan Szabo: Events in the Making

[20 Oct] 2:00pm MMH 1304
Mark Richard: Attitudes and Epithets

[18 Oct] COLLOQUIUM 1:30pm Tydings 2109
Katherine Demuth: Licensing Null Noun Class Prefixes in Sesotho

[18 Oct] CLIP COLLOQUIUM 11:00am AVW 2120
Paul McNamee: N-grams for Multilingual Information Retrieval

[17 Oct] SYNTAX LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Chizuru Nakao: "Not-so-propositional" islands

[16 Oct] COLLOQUIUM 1:30pm Tydings 2109
Reiko Mazuka: Can Japanese speakers really not tell 'ebzo' from 'ebuzo'?

[5 Oct] CNL LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 3416
Andrea Zukowski: From Intention to Articulation

[3 Oct] SYNTAX LUNCH 12:30pm MMH 1108B
Chris Dyer: The syntax of tonal music

[29 Sep] COLLOQUIUM 2:00pm MMH 1304
Howard Lasnik: Multiple sluicing in English?

[15 Sep] COLLOQUIUM Kara Federmeier, Fore-words: Prediction in sentence processing
2PM, 1304 MMH
[12-13 May] MAYFEST Language Learning Fest: Counts, Cues, Constraints and Computation
[5 May] COLLOQUIUM Julie Legate, Abstract Case versus Morphological Case
2PM, 1304 MMH
[28 Apr] COLLOQUIUM Partha Niyogi, The Computational Nature of Language Learning and Evolution
2PM, 1304 MMH
[21 Apr] COLLOQUIUM Rick Lewis, The Surprising Nature of Working Memory in Language Comprehension
3:15PM, 1304 MMH
[10 Mar] COLLOQUIUM Michael Israel, Theory of Mind, Polarity Sensitivity, and the Emergence of Grammar from Usage
2PM, 1304 MMH
[3 Mar] COLLOQUIUM Mike Tanenhaus, Referential domains in interactive conversation
2PM, 1304 MMH
[24 Feb] Prospective Students Visit

2005 Events

(July onwards, in reverse order)
[2 Dec] COLLOQUIUM Maria Polinsky, The syntax and processing of embedded structures in Korean
2PM, 1304 MMH
[11 Nov] COLLOQUIUM Jeff Runner, How are pictures like statues?
2PM, 1304 MMH
[19-21 Oct] BLACKWELL LECTURES Mark Baker, The Lego of Sentence Structure
(Wed, Thu) 3PM; (Fri) 10AM, in the Maryland Room, MMH
[19 Oct] DEFENSE Ilhan Cagri, Minimality and Turkish Relative Clauses
12n, 1108B MMH
[7 Oct] COLLOQUIUM Laura Wagner, Event Semantics in Early Language and Pre-linguistic Thought
2PM, 1304 MMH
[14 Oct] COLLOQUIUM Daniel Swingley, Acquisition and function of phonetic categories in early childhood
2PM, 1304 MMH
[23 Sep] COLLOQUIUM Janet Fodor, The Subset Principle: Necessary but Impossible?
2PM, 1304 MMH
[16 Sep] DEFENSE Nobue Mori, A Syntactic Structure of Lexical Verbs
1413 MMH Conference Room
[20 Sep] SYNTAX LUNCH Lydia Grebenyova, Sluicing and Multiple Wh-fronting
12:30PM, 1108B MMH
[09 Sep] COLLOQUIUM Elan Dresher, Feature Hierarchies and Contrast in Vowel Harmony
2PM, 1304 MMH
[09 Sep] Department party, chez Weinberg & Hornstein
[30 Aug] Faculty 10-minute madness talks, I
10 AM, 1108B MMH
LING895 defense: Ivan Ortega-Santos, University of Maryland
Postverbal Subjects, PF and the Copy Theory: The Spanish Case
16 August, 2005 (Tuesday)
1PM, 1108B MMH
Talk: Savita Bernal, École Normale Supérieure
Word Categorization and Lexicon Acquisition
12 July, 2005 (Tuesday)
3PM, 3416 MMH