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lalala

By chael | Published: May 22, 2015
Earlier this week some of us went to McGill’s gorgeous Gault nature reserve for a language labs lab meeting (lalala). Students from Meghan Clayards‘s Speech Learning Lab, Florian Jaeger‘s HLP lab, Chigusa Kurumada‘s Kinder Lab, Morgan Sonderegger‘s Montreal Language Modeling Lab, and Michael Wagner‘s prosody.lab presented on current projects. [photo: gui garcia] Research presentations: Esteban […]
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etap3–deadline this monday!

By chael | Published: January 8, 2015
Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP) 3: Prosody and Variability Date: 28-May-2015 – 30-May-2015 Location: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Call for Papers Deadline: January 11 2015
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Tools for Linguistic Fieldwork and Experimentation

By chael | Published: January 8, 2015
Tomorrow at the LSA Meeting in Portland, there’ll be a tutorial on LingSync and ProsodyLab-Aligner: Tools for Linguistic Fieldwork and Experimentation. If you plan on attending and would like to try out the Prosodylab-Aligner while being there, you should try to install the aligner beforehand. You’ll find it here: Prosodylab-Aligner The aligner has just undergone […]
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recent work

By chael | Published: August 30, 2014
McClay, Elise & Michael Wagner (in press). Accented Pronouns and Contrast. To appear in the Proceedings of the 50th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society in 2014. [paper] Abstract: Both the lack of accentuation on a referring expression and the choice of a pronoun over a full noun phrase have been tied to a higher […]
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prosody and constituent structure

By chael | Published: May 8, 2014
The conference eti3: Prosody and Constituency at McGill (co-organized by Emily Elfner, Jessica Coon, Lisa Travis, and myself) is now over. Thanks everyone for participating!
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accented pronouns

By chael | Published: April 11, 2014
Handout for the talk we’ll be presenting at CLS today: Elise McClay & Michael Wagner: Accented unambiguous English pronouns: Complementary Preference, Parallel function, or Focus? Comments welcome!
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two papers on intonational tunes

By chael | Published: December 14, 2013
… to be presented next week at semdial: Daniel Goodhue, James Pickett and Michael Wagner. English reverse prosody in re- sponses to yes-no questions. Proceedings of Semantics of Dialogue (Semdial). [paper] Wagner, Michael, Lauren Mak and Elise McClay. Incomplete Answers and the Rise- Fall-Rise Contour. Proceedings of Semantics of Dialogue (Semdial). [paper]
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Dorit Abusch and Mats Rooth Talks

By chael | Published: October 10, 2013
Dorit Abusch and Mats Rooth will give talks as part of a special issue of the Semantics Reading Group this Thursday, October 10, Leacock 738. 2.30-3.45pm Mats Rooth (Cornell University): Focus over new, farmer sentences, and directionality in focus licensing. 3.45pm Refreshments 4.00-5.15pm Dorit Abusch (Cornell University): Anaphoric relations in sequential and conflated pictures Everybody […]
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linguistics olympiad

By chael | Published: January 27, 2013
This year, we are once again organizing a session of the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad, to be held at McGill on January 31. This is a fun competition that is a great way for us get some high school and cegep students (up to 12th grade) exposed to the field of linguistics. If you […]
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experimental linguistics at mcgill

By chael | Published: November 16, 2012
Note that the deadline for applications to our graduate programs is approaching fast: December 15!. Here’s some information about recent changes in our program. The McGill Graduate Program in Linguistics has recently undergone significant restructuring and expansion, which should make it more appealing to students interested in experimental research. The new Experimental Stream offers a […]
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