Department of Linguistics

Fall 2005

Colloquium Schedule

Talks are held in 1304 Marie Mount Hall
Fridays at 2pm, except where noted in green

September

9th B. Elan Dresher University of Toronto Feature Hierarchies and Contrast in Vowel Harmony
23rd Janet Fodor City University of New York The Subset Principle: Necessary but Impossible?
30th (postponed) Partha Niyogi University of Chicago The Computational Nature of Learning and Evolution

October

7th Laura Wagner Ohio State University Event Semantics in Early Language and Pre-linguistic Thought
14th Daniel Swingley University of Pennsylvania Acquisition and function of phonetic categories in early childhood

November

11th Jeff Runner University of Rochester How are pictures like statues?

December

2nd Maria Polinsky University of California, San Diego The syntax and processing of embedded structures in Korean