Please email Olga Dunaevsky odunaevs@uci.edu if you would like to be added to colloquia list langsci_colloquium@uci.edu
2023-2024
Tuesday, October 3
Laura Gwilliams, Stanford University
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: "Computational architecture of speech comprehension"
Tuesday, October 10
Language Science Community Talks
Charles Torres and Jeremy Yeaton (both Language Science, University of California, Irvine)
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: "Subregularity and Computational Complexity" (Charles Torres)
Title "Dissociating syntactic production & comprehension in aphasia" (Jeremy Yeaton)
Tuesday, October 17
Shravan Vasishth, University of Potsdam (Virtual Event)
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: "Individual differences in cue-weighting in sentence comprehension"
Tuesday, October 31
Language Science Community Talks
Yongjia Song and Zeinab Kachakeche (both Language Science, University of California,
Irvine)
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: "Lexical Entrainment in Bilingual Language Use" (Yongjia Song)
Title: "TBA" (Zeinab Kachakeche)
Tuesday, November 7
Vsevolod Kapatsinski, University of Oregon
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: "Why extension is nearly inevitable and how we can sometimes avoid it"
Tuesday, November 14
Rick Lewis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: "Memory for Prediction: Transformer Language Models as Psycholinguistics Theories"
Tuesday, January 30
Vitoria Piai, Radbound University (Virtual Event)
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title:TBA
Tuesday, February 6
Language Science Community Talks
Jiaxuan Li and Shiva Upadhye (both Language Science, University of California, Irvine)
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: "A decomposition of suprisal tracks the N400 and P600 brain potentials " (Jiaxuan
Li)
Title: "TBA" (Shiva upadhye)
Tuesday, February 13
Iva Ivanova, UTEP
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: TBA
Tuesday, February 20
TBA
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title:TBA
Tuesday, March 5
Judy Fan, UCSD
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title:TBA
Tuesday, March 12
TBA
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: TBA
Tuesday, April 9
Yang Xu, University of Toronto (Virtual Event)
8:00am - 9:20am
Title: TBA
Tuesday, April 23
Matt Davis, University of Cambridge
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: TBA
Tuesday, April 30
Liina Pylkkanen, NUY
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title:TBA
Tuesday, May 7
Michael Franke, University of Tubingen (Virtual Event)
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: TBA
Tuesday, May 14
TBAs
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: TBA
Tuesday, May 21
TBA
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title:TBA
Tuesday, May 28
TBA
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: TBA
UCI Language Science Community Talk
Tuesday, May 29
TBA
2022-2023
Tuesday, October 4
Terry Regier, University of California, Berkeley
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: Semantic categories in computational perspective
Tuesday, October 11
Language Science Community Talks
Noa Attali, University of California, Irvine
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: How contextual expectations and prosody can help disambiguate quantifier-negation
utterances
Tuesday, October 18
Naomi Feldman, University of Maryland
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: Modeling early phonetic learning from natural speech
Tuesday, October 25
Jianjing Kuang, University of Pennsylvania
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: Tone acquistion beyond 10
Tuesday, November 15
Brian Dillon, University of Massachusetts Amherst
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: Structure-Building in real time: The View from the Syntactic Ambiguity Processing
Benchmark
Tuesday, January 17
Ryan Cotterell, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: Information-Theoretic Methods in the Study of the Lexicon
Tuesday, January 24
Chris Cummins, University of Edinburgh
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: Inferences about implicatures
Tuesday, January 31
Megan Boudewyn, University of California, Santa Cruz
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: "Using Electrophysiology to Track Attention and Memory Engagement durng Language Comprehension"
Tuesday, February 28
Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, University of Washington
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: "Unnatural Language Semantics"
Tuesday, March 14
Samar Husain, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
8:00am - 9:20am
Title: "The role of working memory constraints on processing of SOV languages"
Tuesday, April 4
Jonathan Brennan, University of Michigan
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: "Linking neural systems to syntax using parsing models"
Tuesday, April 11
Kyle Mahowald, University of Texas at Austin
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: "Exploring an Interesting Few Constructions in Large Langage Models"
Tuesday, April 18
Navin Viswanathan, Pennsylvania State University
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: "Providing a General Account of Interactive Spoken Language Processes: Alignment or
Synergy?"
Tuesday, April 25
Seth Wiener, Carnegie Mellon University
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: "Adult second language acquisition of Mandarin Chinese: A tale of mostly failure and
the occasional success"
Tuesday, May 2
John Hale, University of Georgia, Athens
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: "Cross-linguistic computational neuroscience"
Tuesday, May 9
John Rawski, San Jose State University
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: "Rethinking Poverty of the Stimulus"
Tuesday, May 16
Melinda Fricke, University of Pittsburgh
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: "Leveraging variation in linguistic experience to study adaptation in language processing"
UCI Language Science Community Talk
Tuesday, May 30
Janaina Weissheimer (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte UFRN) and Luna LangYue
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: Your mind, your words: Graph analysis and diverse linguistic experience (Janaina Weissheimer)
Title: Bilingual Reformation in Translation: A Case Study across Three Translating Modes (Luna LangYue)
Previous Language Science Colloquia
2021-2022
Tuesday, October 19
Anne Therese Frederiksen, University of California, Irvine
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: Pronoun processing in American Sign Language: What we learn from variation
among and within languages
Tuesday, October 26
Rodrigo Ranero, University of California, Los Angeles
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: Identity in ellipsis reconsidered: The view from Kaqchikel and beyond
Tuesday, November 2
Language Science Community Talks
Susanne Jaeggi and Jacky Au, UCI
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: Promoting learning and achievement across the lifespan via cognitive training and brain stimulation
Tuesday, November 9
Simon Kirby, University of Edinburgh
9:00am - 10:30am
Title: From Item to System: how cultural evolution creates linguistic structure in an iconic modality
Tuesday, November 16
Language Science Community Talks
Ariel Chan, UCLA
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: Bilingualism in different forms: What does cultural identity tell us about code-switching preferences and cognitive control?
Tuesday, November 23
Noga Zaslavsky, MIT
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: Efficient compression and linguistic meaning in humans and machines
Tuesday, January 25
Language Science Community Talks
Emma Nguyen, UCI
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: From one verb class to another: Viewing the acquisition of passives through the lens of lexical semantic features
Tuesday, February 1
Marten Van Schjindel, Cornell University
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: Neural Language Priming
Tuesday, February 15
Language Science Community Talks
Julie Washington, UCI
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: Language Variation and Reading: Teaching African American Children to Read
Tuesday, February 22
Adele Goldberg, Princeton University
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: Accessibility and historical change: how uncles and aunts became aunts and
uncles
Tuesday, March 1
Letty Naigles, University of Connecticut
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: How Nonsense Words Reveal both Strengths and Challenges
in the Linguistic Representations and Processes of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Tuesday, March 8
Kristen Syrett, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: What does it take to learn an adjective?
Wednesday, March 30
Benjamin Spector, Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris
9:00am - 10:30am
Title: Exhaustivity, Anti-exhaustivity and the effect of prior beliefs in the Rational
Speech Act Framework
Tuesday, April 26
Rick Dale, UCLA
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: Dynamic integration and cognitive organization in natural language performance
Tuesday, May 3
Farrell Ackerman and Rob Malouf, UCSD
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: Understanding language particular morphological systems in order to discover
general principles of morphological organization
Tuesday, May 10
Language Science Community Talks
Andrea Takahesu-Tabori, UCI
11:00am - 12:30pm
Title: Impact of individual differences in ambient language diversity and cognitive
control ability for L3 learning of Spanish grammatical gender by Mandarin-English
bilinguals
Wednesday, June 1
Nick Chater, University of Warwick
9:00am - 10:30am
Title: Virtual bargaining: The hidden logic of joint action and communication
2020-2021
Tuesday, October 20
Damián Blasi, Harvard University
11:00am - 12:30pm
The exceptional nature of linguistic diversity and language change and why it matters
for theories of language
Wednesday, November 11
Paula Rubio-Fernandez, University of Oslo
9:00am - 10:30am
The psychophysics of referential communication: Discriminability vs informativity
Tuesday, November 24
Language Science Community Talks
11:00am - 12:30pm
Andrew Cheng and Alandi Bates
Tuesday, December 8
Jeff Heinz, Stony Brook University
11:00am - 12:30pm
Deterministic Analyses and Learning of Optional Phonological Processes
Tuesday, December 15
Evelina Fedorenko, MIT
11:00am - 12:30pm
The language system in the human mind and brain
Tuesday, February 2
Kasia Hitczenko, Northwestern University
11:00am - 12:30pm
Modeling speech perception and phonetic learning from naturalistic speech.
Xin Xie, University of Rochester
11:00am - 12:30pm
Wednesday, February 10
Esti Blanco-Elorrieta, Harvard University
11:00am - 12:30pm
Towards an ecologically valid neurobiology of multilingualism.
11:00am - 12:30pm
Bilingualism: A socio-cognitive exercise in managing uncertainty.
Alexandra Carstensen, Stanford University
11:00am - 12:30pm
Wednesday, February 17
Zara Harmon, University of Maryland
11:00am - 12:30pm
Mechanisms of overextension in language production.
Thursday, February 18
Connor Mayer, University of California, Los Angeles
11:00am - 12:30pm
Acquisition of speech sound categories.
Tuesday, April 6
Adina Williams, Facebook AI Research
11:00am - 12:30pm
Unnatural Language Inference
Tuesday, April 27
Jennifer Culbertson, University of Edinburgh
9:00am - 10:30am
Word and morpheme ordering preferences are affected by meaning, transparency, and
perceptual experience
Tuesday, May 4
Gary Lupyan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
11:00am - 12:30pm
From Telepathy to Whorf: How words structure and align our concepts
Tuesday, May 18
Language Science Community Talks
11:00am - 12:00pm
Industry Jobs Panel
Tuesday, June 1
Tal Linzen, NYU
11:00am - 12:30pm
Can surprisal explain syntactic disambiguation difficulty?
2019-2020
Monday, June 8
Remote Presentation
Tamar Gollan, UC San Diego
https://profiles.ucsd.edu/tamar.gollan
Monday, May 11
Remote Presentation
Sam Bowman, NYU
11:00am - 12:15pm
Learning acceptability judgments from raw text alone
Monday, March 2
Community Talks
Galia Bar-Sever, UC Irvine
11:00am - 11:50am, SSPB 1222
Wednesday, February 26
Linguistic Diversity Talk
Guadalupe Valdes, Stanford University
https://ed.stanford.edu/faculty/gvaldes
2:00pm - 3:30pm, HG 1030
Monday, February 24
Zoe Klemfuss, UC Irvine
https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/klemfuss/
11:00am - 12:15pm, SSPB 1222
Causes and Effects of Narrative Variation in Childhood
Thursday, February 6
Colin Phillips, University of Maryland
https://www.colinphillips.net/
11:00am - 12:15pm, SSPA 2112 (Room Change)
Not So Great Expectations
Monday, January 21
Amy Pratt, UC Irvine
"Identification of Spanish-English Bilingual Children with Developmental Language
Disorder (DLD): The Differential Effect of Exposure Across Bilinguals with and without DLD"
Ashley Adams, UC Irvine
"Exploring the classroom experiences of dual language learners with and without special education
needs"
11:00am - 11:50am, SSPB 1222
Monday, December 2
Karen Emmorey, San Diego State University
https://slhs.sdsu.edu/llcn/
11:00am - 12:15pm, SSPA 2112 (Room Change)
"The Neurobiology of Reading in Deaf and Hearing Adults"
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"
11:00am - 11:50am, SSPB 1222
Leon Bergen, UC San Diego
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"
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