2014 Apr 30

Universals Reading Group: Tyler Lau

5:15pm to 7:00pm

Location:

2 Arrow Street

The lab meeting next Wednesday (4/30/14, 5:15 pm) will be a joint meeting of the Language Universals Reading Group and the Polinsky Lab:

The Interaction of Vowel Devoicing and Pitch Accent in Shiraho Yaeyaman
Presented by: Tyler Lau
Location: 2 Arrow Street, 4th...

2014 Apr 16

Universals Reading Group: Bronwyn Bjorkman

Registration Closed 5:15pm to 7:00pm

Location:

2 Arrow Street

ABSTRACT:

As is well-known, many languages with ergative systems of case or agreement nonetheless

exhibit splits in their alignment, with ergativity failing to occur in some contexts.

Viewpoint aspect is a common determinant of such splits, with perfective aspect being

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Registration:

2014 Apr 09

Universals Reading Group: Duygu Ozge

Registration Closed 5:15pm to 7:00pm

Location:

2 Arrow Street

Morpheme-based incremental processing in head-final child language

Humans rapidly interpret utterances as soon as the words become available rather than postponing interpretation until the end of a sentence (Altmann & Steedman, 1988; Tanenhaus, Spivey-Knowlton, Eberhard, & Sedivy, 1995) and they use locally available linguistic cues to form semantic and syntactic anticipations about the upcoming structure (Altmann & Kamide, 1999; Kamide, Scheepers, & Altmann, 2003). How about a developing parser? Real-time processing studies in children...