The Department of Linguistics is pleased to announce a dissertation oral: “Processing short-message communications in low-resource languages”, Rob Munro. Come to the Greenberg Room at 1pm today to hear all about it.
This dissertation investigates the inherent written variation found in the short-message communications of many languages, and explores how this variation can be modeled for natural language processing systems. Read the rest of this entry »
This week, the Phonetics & Phonology Workshop will host Grant McGuire from UC Santa Cruz, who will be giving a talk on “Gender differences in social judgments, ease of processing, and imitation in voices” (abstract follows). At noon in the Greenberg Room; all are welcome.
This talk will report data from a series of studies using a corpus of 60 voices (30 male, 30 female). Read the rest of this entry »
Come to the Greenberg Room today at 3:15 (note the special time) to hear Stephen Neale (The Graduate Center, City University of New York) on “Syntax….Pragmatics”. This is a joint colloquium between Philosophy and Linguistics. All are welcome!
Notions of meaning, referring, saying, and implying (or implicating) are routinely invoked by philosophers, linguists, and legal and literary theorists in the course of making apparently substantive claims about natural language and its use. A good number of philosophers who do this—and perhaps a good number of linguists too—see themselves as participants in substantive debates about the following: Read the rest of this entry »
Join the Berkeley Syntax Circle today (3-4:30 in 1303 Dwinelle) for a presentation by Amy Rose Deal (UC Santa Cruz) on Possessor Raising.
On Monday, Arto Anttila will give a talk at Berkeley called “Quantity alternations in Dagaare” (the talk is based on joint work with Adams Bodomo of the University of Hong Kong).
Bruno Estigarribia will give two talks today at OSUCHiLL 2012, called ‘How many times do I have to tell you?’ Rioplatense Spanish clitic ‘tripling’ and ‘Idesubicada niko! Miramina lo que me dice!’ Guaraní-Spanish Jopara code-switching in the novel ‘Ramona Quebranto’.
On Wednesday, Paul Kiparsky spoke at the IV Seminario Internacional de Fonologia in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Remember Leda Bisol, who visited Stanford back in the 90s? Our roving reporter catches up with her and Paul Kiparsky this week in Porto Alegre, Brasil. Both seem to be enjoying the IV Seminário Internacional de Fonologia.
On Monday at noon in the Linguistics Chair’s Office, Dan Lassiter will be speaking on “Quantificational and Modal Interveners in Degree Constructions”. This is a dry run of his upcoming SALT talk. His abstract is below.
Szabolcsi & Zwarts (1993) and Heim (2001) independently note identical scopal restrictions on universal quantifiers in amount wh-questions and comparatives, respectively. Szabolcsi & Zwarts’ proposal accounts for the restrictions on quantifier scope in degree constructions, but — on the standard assumption that modals are quantifiers over possible worlds — wrongly predicts that modals should also be restricted. Read the rest of this entry »
Terrence W. Deacon will be speaking on “Incomplete Nature: radically reformulating the concept of emergence” (abstract below) on Thursday at 4:30pm in Hewlett 201. This talk is sponsored by the Stanford Complexity Group.
By recasting emergence theory in dynamical terms and focusing on the role of constraint in explaining ascending levels of causal relationships, this talk will argue that such basic scientific challenges as explaining the origins of life, the nature of information, and the dynamics of mental function need to be rethought. Though relying heavily on complex systems approaches, I will argue that various approaches to biological and neurological processes that depend on models of self-organizing dynamics are fundamentally incomplete, and that a higher order emergent dynamical approach is necessary, which I call teleodynamics.