The Spring semester is winding down as the final day of classes (Wednesday, April 27) approaches. The Spring Reading Period will begin Thursday, April 28, and lasts through Wednesday, May 4. For more information please check the FAS Academic Calendar.
GSAS Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Workshop
Julia Sturm(Harvard University) Non-Compositional Preverb + Verb Compounds in the R̥g Veda: Constructions, Idiosyncrasy, and Semantic Change Monday, April 25 | 5:30pm | Boylston 335
Language and Cognition
Kathryn Davidson Exercising the language organ: Two studies on the role of early language input Tuesday, April 26 | 5:30pm | William James Hall 450
Dropping a Medieval Beat: Text Setting Patterns in the Chansons of Gilles Binchois
2:00
Lauren Boranian
Singin’ in the Brain: Music in Expressive Aphasia Treatment
2:20
Jack Weyen
The origins and development of the English casual slang suffix -s
2:40
Break
2:50
Priyanka Sen
Thematic Role Assignment at the Morphosyntax/Semantics Interface: From Linguistics to Neuropsychology
3:10
Dylan Hardenbergh
Contrastive Inferences Under Cognitive Load
3:30
Carl Rogers
Distinguishing already from perfect aspect: A case study of Chinese yijing
3:50
Break
4:00
Sasha Benov
Variation in Czech: The Use of the Prothetic v in Informal Speech
4:20
Sean Frazzette
DreamWorks Studios Present: A Search for a Gradient of Animacy in Slavic Languages
4:40
Kathy Tran
Rising to One's Potential: Joshi Ryoku and the "Power" of Feminitity in Japan
5:00
Closing Remarks
Spring Reception
This year's Spring reception will be held Thursday April 28 at 5pm on the 3rd floor of Boylston Hall.
Language Universals Workshop
Laura McPherson (Dartmouth) The talking xylophone of the Sembla: Seenku phonology in a speech surrogate system Friday, April 29 | 4pm | Boylston 237
MBB Open Science Conference
The following talks and posters featured Harvard presenters at the Harvard Mind, Brain, and Behavior Open Science Conference held on Thursday, April 21.
Dorothy Ahn, "Grammatical Facilitation of Number Word Acquisition"
Gašper Beguš, "Why do Vowel Durations Differ Across Phonetic Environments?"
Yujing Huang, "On the Mismatch Between Meaning and Form: A Case Study"
Pooja Paul, "Syntactic and Pragmatic Factors drive asymmetries in the online processing of ‘only’: evidence from eye-tracking"
