Upcoming Language Science Colloquia
2019-2020
Monday, December 2
Karen Emmorey, San Diego State University
11:00am - 12:15pm, SSPA 2112 (Room Change)
"The Neurobiology of Reading in Deaf and Hearing Adults"
Monday, February 3
Yao Du, UC Irvine
https://luci.ics.uci.edu/pages/Students/yaodu/yaodu.html
11:00am - 11:30am, SSPB 1222
Talk Title TBA
Monday, February 24
Zoe Klemfuss, UC Irvine
https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/klemfuss/
11:00am - 12:15pm, SSPB 1222
Talk Title TBA
Monday, April 6
Evelina Fedorenko, MIT
11:00am - 12:15pm, SSPB 1222
Talk Title TBA
Monday, May 11
Paolo Santorio, University of Maryland
http://www.philosophy.umd.edu/people/santorio
11:00am - 12:15pm, SSPB 1222
Talk Title TBA
Monday, June 1
Adina Williams, Facebook AI Research
https://wp.nyu.edu/adinawilliams/
11:00am - 12:15pm, SSPB 1222
Talk Title TBA
Previous Language Science Colloquia
2019-2020
Monday, October 14
Hannah Forsythe, Language Science UC Irvine
"Modeling the Source of Children’s Non-Adult-Like Pronoun Interpretations: Representation
Versus Deployment"
Anne Therese Frederiksen, Chancellor's Postdoc Fellow UC Irvine
"Comprehension of pronouns in American Sign Language: Modality-general and modality-specific
influences"
http://ling.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/profiles/LeonBergen.html
"Verbal Irony, Pretense, and the Common Ground"
Anne Beatty-Martinez, Penn State University
https://sites.google.com/site/annebeattymartinez/
"Revisiting Grammatical Gender in Spanish: Evidence from Monolingual and Bilingual
Speakers"
"Structure Building in Speaking"
Talk Title TBA
2018-2019
Monday, June 3
Alexis Wellwood, University of Southern California
http://bcf.usc.edu/~wellwood/
"Seeing and Talking About Events"
Dylan Bumford, UCLA
http://dylanbumford.com
"Superlative Scope, Comparison Classes, and Negative Polarity"
Monday, March 11
Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh
https://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/people/staff/Mark_Steedman.html
"The Combinatory Cognitive Science of Language"
Monday, March 4
Hans Kamp, University of Stuttgart
https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/mitarbeiter/hans/
"DRT Tutorial"
Monday, February 11
Stephanie Shih, University of Southern California
http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~shihs/
"Catching Phonology in the Pokéverse: Cross-linguistic Comparisons in Sound Symbolism"
"The Dynamic Nature of the Bilingual Language System"
Monday, January 14
Brandy Gatlin, UC Irvine
https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=6342
"Why They Be Talkin' Like That?" A Look at Language Variation and Literacy"
Monday, December 3
Maria Polinsky, University of Maryland
http://www.mariapolinsky.com
"It's Still About Grammar: Cascading Structural Reorganization in Bilinguals"
Monday, November 19
Stefan Th. Gries, UC Santa Barbara
http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/stgries/
"Quantitative Corpus Applications: Morphemes, Multi-word Units, & Constructions"
Friday November 9
Judith Kroll, UC Riverside
https://bilingualismmindbrain.com/lab-members/judith-f-kroll/
"The Fate of the Native Language in Second Language Learning: A New Hypothesis About
Bilingualism, Mind, and Brain"
Talk recording
2017-2018
Monday, May 21
Kara Morgan-Short, University of Illinois at Chicago
https://lcsl.uic.edu/hispanic-italian/faculty-instructors/hispanic-linguistics/kara-morgan-short
"The Neurocognitive processing of late-learned second language: The role of external
and internal factors"
Victor Ferreira, University of California, San Diego
http://www.psychology.ucsd.edu/people/profiles/vferreira.html
"Syntactic Entrainment as a Candidate Mechanism for Learning the Meanings of Syntactic
Constructions"
Monday, March 19
Ede Zimmermann, Visiting Scholar, UCI (Frankfurt)
http://user.uni-frankfurt.de/~tezimmer/Zimmermann/
"Montague Grammar: 50 years after"
Monday, March 12
Caroline Féry, Goethe University Frankfurt
http://user.uni-frankfurt.de/~cfery/
"The Grammatical and Prosodic Reflexes of Information Structure in a Typological Comparison"
Saturday, March 3
Ede Zimmermann, Visiting Scholar, UCI (Frankfurt)
http://user.uni-frankfurt.de/~tezimmer/Zimmermann/
"Second Formal Semantics Boot Camp II"
Monday, February 26
Oana David, University of California, Merced
https://ucmerced.academia.edu/OanaDavid
"The role of grammar in computer-aided metaphor research"
Saturday, Februrary 17
Ede Zimmermann, Visiting Scholar, UCI (Frankfurt)
http://user.uni-frankfurt.de/~tezimmer/Zimmermann/
"First Formal Semantics Boot Camp I"