mosaic 2
Mosaic 2, the second workshop of semanticists active in Canada, is just around the corner. The program is posted here.
angelika kratzer and lisa selkirk at mcGill
Angelika Kratzer and Lisa Selkirk will be visiting at McGill. The schedule of the presentations is posted here. This visit is part of the mcsirg interface group at McGill. They will also present as invited speakers at the Mosaic workshop on June 1st.
6th international workshop on language production
This looks like it’s going to be an interesting event, conveniently scheduled right before AMLaP at York University:
The School of Psychology at The University of Dundee and the Department of Psychology at The University of Edinburgh are pleased to announce the 6th International Workshop on Language Production. The workshop is dedicated to fostering an interdisciplinary approach to language production research by including work in areas such as psycholinguistics, cognitive neuropsychology, linguistics, computational modelling, and neuroimaging. It will be organized around tutorial-like talks intended to provide a review of research questions and stimulate discussion. The workshop program also includes poster sessions to offer graduate students and others the opportunity to showcase their most recent findings.
Location: Edinburgh
Date: September 2-4, 2010
Deadline for Poster Submission: June 1, 2010
cornell workshop on grammar induction
Another reminder about the Cornell Workshop on Grammar Induction, which is coming closer. The workshop features quite an amazing line up of talks:
Cornell Workshop on Grammar Induction will bring together researchers from the fields of linguistics, psychology, and computer science who work on issues of learning and learnability in language. Our goal is to facilitate the exchange of ideas between researchers approaching similar problems with the perspectives and methodologies of diverse fields.
Date: 14-May-2010 - 16-May-2010
florian jaeger and dave embick at mcgill
Florian Jaeger will give an invited lecture for the CRLMB consisting of two mini-talks this Monday, May 3rd, as part of the WOMM! Statistics workshop on logit mixed models. Titles: “Efficiency in production: How speakers design their utterances to distribute information uniformly” and “Syntax in flux: Syntactic adaptation in adults.” The lecture is open to all and will take place on Monday, May 3rd at 2 p.m. in Room 501 of the Goodman Cancer Research Centre, 1160 Pine Ave. West.
Dave Embick will give a talk this Wednesday, May 5 2010, 3 p.m. in Room Arts 160, as part of the McSirg team grant. The title of the talk is “Towards a theory of stem alternations.”
endangered languages in urban settings
The NYT features an article on an interesting project on endangered languages spoken in NYC.
syracuse interface workshop
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour and Jaklin Kornfilt have organized an interface workshop at Syracuse University. You can download the program with abstracts here.
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Workshop on Mixed Models on May 3rd and May 4th 2010
[The slides from the workshop are now posted on Florian’s blog. Thanks everyone who participated for making this an interesting event!]
The gripp reading group at McGill and the CRLMB are organizing a statistics workshop on logit mixed models.
The workshop will feature lectures and tutorials on ordinary and multilevel/mixed models by Florian Jaeger (University of Rochester), Maureen Gillespie (Northeastern), and Peter Graff (MIT).
Sponsors: CRLMB, prosody.lab, the Mcgill Infant
Development Cluster, the PoP lab, the Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience
training grant, Digging into Data (SSHRC/NSF), and BRAMS.
mosaic 2
The program for Mosaic 2, the meeting of semanticists active in Canada, is now online. It will take place on June 1st at McGill, as a satellite workshop to the cla/acl meeting at Concordia.
If you plan on attending, please register here.
some prosody stuff at cns
TheCNS annual meeting in Montréal is looming. Here are some links to prosody-related posters from the website. This list is not intended to be complete in any way, it’s just what I saw while gleaning through the list in the last 15min:
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