Ed King writes:
The paper we’ll be discussing on Friday is a draft of a paper by Andrew Wedel, Abby Kaplan, and Scott Jackson: “Meaning, Language Use and the Maintenance of Sound Category Contrast: A Corpus Study.” I’ve put the draft on the pinterest web page. Because this is a working draft, we need to NOT distribute it or cite it. I’ve restricted access to the paper to Stanford affiliates; if anyone in the Workshop wants to read the paper but does not have a Stanford web login, please contact me directly.
It’s a very short paper, and the authors would love to hear feedback on content, so please take a look and come in on Friday to talk about it.
The Berkeley Syntax Circle will meet today from 3-4:30 in 1303 Dwinelle. It will feature three talks from Berkeley that are headed to the 43rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL):
- Roslyn Burns. Abo Optional Anti-Agreement
- Greg Finley: The Semantic alignment of modal verbs in Abo, and
- Larry Hyman, Peter Jenks, and Emmanuel-Moselley Makasso: Adjectives as nominal heads in Basaá
From out of nowhere, Stanford has moved into the top position on the LINGUIST List Graduate Tournament. Show your support for our program by donating, small or large, at the LINGUIST List donation site. Don’t let us fall behind!
Meghan Sumner gave a talk last Friday at Northwestern.
Penny Eckert is in Washington this weekend, speaking at the Georgetown University Round Table.
[Editor's note: We know that many of you out there in Sesquipedispace are giving talks all over the place without telling us. Shame on you!]
Come to the Greenberg Room at 12:15 on Monday to hear Pavlos Kollias and Evan Rosen present their M.S. projects! Their abstracts are below:
“Context, Cortex, and Associations: A Connectionist Developmental Approach to Verbal Analogies” Pavlos Kollias
Parallel Distributed Processing networks are traditionally assumed to be incapable of addressing analogical reasoning findings. Here, we present a neurocognitive PDP model of verbal A:B::C:D analogies, focusing on the role of word associations. Read the rest of this entry »
A warm welcome to Tatiana Chernigovskaya, a Russian linguist, from St. Petersburg State University. She will be visiting Stanford next week, Mon to Wed. If any linguistic students or faculty would like to meet with her, please contact Tim Stearns directly, at stearns@stanford.edu. Her major research interests include: A. The cerebral basis for linguistic and cognitive functions; B. Theory of Mind; C. Artificial intelligence; D. Language evolution and acquisition; E. Mental lexicon organization; F. Language acquisition and pathology. For further info, take a look at her C.V.
Abstracts are invited for a poster session to be held at the start of a two-day symposium on “Racing Language, Languaging Race,” to be held at Stanford University, Thu May 3 to Fri May 4, 2012. For a list of presenters and other information, see the CREAL website. Abstracts should be for posters relating to the conference theme, should be no more than 300 words, and should be submitted by March 23 to CREALconference@stanford.edu
UnderLings, the Cornell University undergraduate linguistics association, requests abstract submissions for the 6th annual Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium. Abstracts should be submitted to culc2012@gmail.com by March 21st. More information about the Colloquium may be found here.
Join the LangCog Lab on Tuesday the 13th for another joint lab meeting. Yang Xu from Carnegie Mellon will be presenting “Constructing spatial concepts with universal primitives”, abstract below. The meeting will be held at noon in Jordan 419 and lunch will be served.
“Constructing spatial concepts with universal primitives”
Spatial terms such as “on” and “in” are found in every language, and psychologists have suggested that the meanings of these terms may be constructed from a universal set of spatial primitives. Read the rest of this entry »