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Look Who’s Talking!

Tania Rojas-Esponda presented to the Artificial Intelligence Research group at Facebook, to the QiD Workshop in Goettingen (University of Potsdam), and gave a talk at Google to the Machine Learning Group this week.

Nicholas Moores gave a talk at Bing Nursery School on his masters thesis work, Children’s Learned Associations with Voice: Perspectives on Children’s Speech Perception in Language Acquisition.

Loads of Stanford linguists will be presenting at NWAV 43 next week at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:

  • Teresa Pratt and Annette D’Onofrio will present “Awareness in enregisterment: Performances of the California Vowel Shift in SNL’s The Californians“.
  • Robert Podesva, Penny Eckert, Julia Fine, Katherine Hilton, Sunwoo Jeong, and Sharese King will present “Social Influences on the Degree of Stop Voicing in Inland California”.
  • Penny Eckert will present “Stylistic Innovation and Indexical Obsolescence”.
  • Lelia Glass will present on “Need to vs. have to and got to: A corpus study in semantic variation”.
  • Jeremy Calder will present on “‘Let’s talk about Reading!’: The role of rhythm in drag queen ritual insult“.
  • Annette D’Onofrio will present on “Persona-based information and automatic linguistic perception: Evidence from TRAP-backing”.
  • Patrick Callier will present on “What does the linguistic environment contribute to social meaning?”.

Look Who’s Talking!

Eve V. Clark is giving the plenary talk “Variation and Experience in First Language Acquisition” at the conference Diferencias Individuales en la adquisicion del lenguaje, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, Mexico City on Thursday, October 9.

Vera Gribanova presented “On certain manifestations of polarity focus in Russian” at the LRC Workshop on Syntax and Information Structure.

Andrea Beltrama will present at the Berkeley Syntax Circle next Friday, October 17th.

Dan Jurafsky will present on Extracting Social Meaning from Language: The Computational Linguistics of Food and the Spread of Innovation at MIT’s CSAIL Thursday, October 9th.

VPUE Undergraduate Intern Presentations Today (10/3) at 3:30!

Come hear from our undergraduate VPUE interns as they present their summer research projects today in the Greenberg Room. The presentations start at 3:30, with detailed schedule below.

3:30pm Yesid Castro and Som Mai Nguyen: “Effects of talker variability and reported talker traits”

3:50pm Kayland Harrison and Breanna Williams: “Post vocalic r-retention in reading by African Americans in the Moving to Opportunity Corpus”

4:10pm Jonathan Engel “Crowd Sourcing Meaning: Statements With Evaluative Adjectives”

Look Who’s Talking!

Boris Harizanov gave a talk on “Denominal adjectives in Bulgarian and the syntax-morphophonology interface” at the UC Berkeley Syntax Circle last Friday.

Masoud Jasbi will present “Definiteness, Specificity, or Topicality: The Semantics of Differential Object Marking in Persian” at the UC Berkeley Syntax Circle this afternoon.

Next week Dan Lassiter will give a University of Rochester Cognitive Science Colloquium and will speak at the Universals Workshop at Harvard, both times on “Epistemic adjectives: Lexical semantics meets psychology of reasoning”.

VPUE Undergraduate Intern Presentations Friday (10/3)

Come hear from our undergraduate VPUE interns as they present on their summer research projects next Friday in the Greenberg Room. More info to come soon!

Look Who’s Talking!

Dan Jurafsky will be giving a colloquium at UPenn’s Institute for Research in Cognitive Science today: “Extracting Social Meaning from Language: The Computational Linguistics of Food and the Spread of Innovation”.

VPUE Presentations Friday (10/3) at 3:30pm

Join us in the Greenberg Room Friday, October 3 as we hear from our undergraduate VPUE researchers as they discuss and finalize their summer research internships.

Look Who’s Talking! (Summer Retrospective)

We have a considerable backlog of talks given by Stanford folks this summer to announce as well.

  • Eve Clark finished a term as President of the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL).
    • There was a symposium in her honor, with details here.
    • Here is an interview from when she began her term: (video)
  • Eve Clark headed the CSMN interdisciplinary workshop: Language Acquisition and Concept Formation from August 14-15 at the University of Oslo.
  • Eve Clark visited and spoke at the Lunds Universitet Linneaus Centre Cognition, Communication and Learning (CCL) on August 18-20. (‘Room B237 was filled to the last seat!’)
  • In May, Eve gave the Bing Distinguished Lecture at Bing Nursery School, Stanford (an annual lecture for parents and staff, usually research done at or relevant
    to early child development).
  • Eve spent June 2014 at Paris-Diderot: as holder of the LabEx International Chair in Empirical Foundations of Linguistics, she lectured on language acquisition, interaction and feedback; attention, grounding, and word acquisition; conceptual perspective, and how much word meaning is required for successful communication.
  • In mid-June, Eve gave a colloquium talk at the University of Edinburgh.

The Methods in Dialectology XV Conference saw these Stanford linguists present:

  • John Rickford presented on Stylistic variation in panel studies of change in real time
  • Janneke Van Hofwegen and Walt Wolfram presented on On the utility of composite indices in longitudinal language study

Several Stanford linguists presented at the University of Zurich’s ISLE Conference from August 24-27:

  • Joan Bresnan gave the plenary address on Frequency effects in spoken syntax: ‘Have’ and ‘be’ contraction
  • Jason Grafmiller presented on Exploring probabilistic grammar(s) in varieties of English around the world
  • Elizabeth Traugott presented on Do semantic modal maps have a role in a constructionalization approach to modals? and on Pragmatic salience as an enabling factor in morphosyntactic change

Sharese King presented on The Interaction Between Frequency and Stereotype in Processing Cross-dialectal Variation at CogSci 2014.

Dan Lassiter gave a plenary talk on Bayesian Pragmatics for the 2014 Frederick Jelinek Memorial Workshop on Meaning Representations in Language and Speech Processing at Charles University in Prague.

Prerna Nadathur presented on Unless, exceptionality, and conditional strengthening for the ESSLLI 2014 Student Session.

Prerna Nadathur and Daniel Lassiter presented Unless: an experimental approach at Sinn und Bedeutung 2014.

Beth Levin, Lelia Glass, and Dan Jurafsky presented on Corpus Evidence for Systematicity in English Compounds at Sinn und Bedeutung 2014.

Meghan Sumner gave a talk to incoming freshmen at New Student Orientation as part of a program to engage new undergraduates in undergraduate research. Read more about it here.