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2023-2024 Colloquia

Fall 2023

Monday, October 16, 2023

Natalie Weber (Yale)

Monday, November 13, 2023

Karen Emmorey (SDSU)

Spring 2024

Monday, April 8, 2024

Natasha Abner (University of Michigan)

Monday, April 15, 2024

Jenny Davis (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Monday, May 13, 2023

Ndapa Nakashole (UC San Diego)

Past Colloquia

Spring 2023

Monday, April 10, 2023
Nicole Holliday
Monday, April 24, 2023
Lina (Lynn) Hou
Monday, May 22, 2023
Ndapa Nakashole (UC San Diego)

Winter 2023

Monday, January 30, 2023
Jessica Coon (McGill University)

 

Monday, February 6, 2023
Lisa Davidson (NYU)

Fall 2022

Monday, October 24, 2022 
Monday, October 24, 2022 
James Woodward (UH Manoa)

Spring 2022

Monday, May 2, 2022 
Anne Charity Hudley (Stanford University)
2:00pm, TBD

Monday, May 16, 2022
James Woodward (UH Manoa)
2:00pm, TBD

Winter 2022

Monday, Jan. 31, 2022 
Scott AnderBois (Brown University)
2:00pm, TBD

Monday, Mar. 7, 2022
Diane Lillo-Martin (University of Connecticut)
2:00pm, TBD

Fall 2021

Monday, Oct. 18, 2021
Andrea Sims (The Ohio State University)
2:00pm, Online

Monday, Nov. 29, 2021
Georgia Zellou (UC Davis)
2:00pm, Online

Spring 2021

Monday, April 5, 2021
Rob Malouf (SDSU)
2:00pm
, Online

Monday, April 19, 2021
Lisa Matthewson (University of British Columbia)
2:00pm
, Online

Monday, May 10, 2021
Judith Kroll (UC Irvine)
2:00pm
, Online

Winter 2021

Monday, January 11, 2021
Adele Goldberg (Princeton University)
2:00pm, Online

Monday, February 1, 2021
Pam Beddor (University of Michigan)
2:00pm, Online

Fall 2020

Monday, November 9, 2020
Rebecca Tollan (University of Delaware)
2:00pm, Online

Spring 2020

Monday, May 4, 2020
Ryan Bennett (UC Santa Cruz)
2:00pm
, Online

Monday, May 18, 2020
Lisa Pearl (UC Irvine)
2:00pm
, Online

 

Postponed
Bill Croft (University of New Mexico)

Winter 2020

Monday, February 10, 2020
Tal Linzen (John Hopkins)
2:00pm, AP&M 4301

Fall 2019

Monday, October 7, 2019
Bernard Comrie (UC Santa Barbara)
2:00pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, October 21, 2019
Alexis Wellwood (University of Southern California)
2:00pm, AP&M 4301

Spring 2019

Monday, April 8, 2019
Wesley Leonard (UC Riverside)
2:00pm,
AP&M 4301

Monday, April 29, 2019
Jenny Saffran (University of Wisconsin)
2:00pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, May 6, 2019
Fernanda Ferreira (UC Davis)
2:00pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, May 20, 2019
Ellen Lau (University of Maryland)
2:00pm, AP&M 4301

Winter 2019

Monday, January 28, 2019
Kate Davidson (Harvard University)
2:00pm, AP&M 4301

Fall 2018

Monday, October 22, 2018
Ben Bergen (UC San Diego)
2:00pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, November 5, 2018
Jill Morford (University of New Mexico)
2:00pm, AP&M 4301

Spring 2018

Monday, April 9th, 2018
Ray Jackendoff (Tufts University)
2:00pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, April 30th, 2018
Dan Jurafsky (Stanford University)
2:00pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, May 21st, 2018
Harold Torrence (University of California, Los Angeles)
2:00pm, AP&M 4301

Winter 2018

Monday, February 26th, 2018
Rory Turnbull (University of Hawai'i at Manoa)
2:00pm, AP&M 4301

Fall 2017

Monday, October 9th, 2017
Darya Kavitskaya (University of California, Berkeley)
2:00pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, October 23rd, 2017
Andy Wedel (University of Arizona) / Adam Ussishkin (University of Arizona)
2:00pm
, AP&M 4301

Monday, November 20th, 2017
Natasha Warner (University of Arizona)
2:00pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, December 4th, 2017
Judith Tonhauser (The Ohio State University)
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Spring 2017

Monday April 3rd, 2017
Luc Baronian (Université du Québec à Chicoutimi)
Below the morpheme, beyond the morpheme
2:00pm in AP&M 4301

Monday April 10th, 2017
Heidi Harley (University of Arizona)
The morphophonology and morphosyntax of Hiaki bound stem forms
2:00pm
, AP&M 4301

Monday May 1st, 2017
Irina Monich (University of Surrey) 
Morphologically triggered tonogenesis in Dinka and Nuer: A working hypothesis 
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday May 8th, 2017
Matt Gordon (UC Santa Barbara) 
Tonal strength hierarchies in Koasati: where the lexicon, intonation, and morphology collide
2:00pm, AP&M 4301

Monday May 22nd, 2017
Vera Gribanova (Stanford University) 
Case and agreement across Uzbek nonfinite clause types
2:00pm, AP&M 4301

Fall 2016

Monday, October 10th
Abigail Cohn (Cornell University)
Sources of variation in phonology
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Friday, October 28th
Adrian Brasoveanu (UC Santa Cruz)
The scope of comparative quantifier phrases in object position
12:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday November 7th
William Matchin (UCSD)
On the relation between syntactic theory and sentence processing, and a theory of island phenomena
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Friday November 18th
Eric Campbell (UC Santa Barbara)
Laryngealization: some descriptive, typological, and pedagogical perspectives
12:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Spring 2016

Monday, March 28th
Sally McConnell-Ginet (Cornell University)
Semantics and Pragmatics in/of Transition
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, April 11th
Jaye Padgett (UC Santa Cruz)
An Ultrasound Investigation of Irish Palatalization
2:00pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, April 25th
Michael Diercks (Pomona University)
Hidden Complexity in Object Clitics in Lubukusu and related Luyia Languages (joint work with Justine Sikuku) 
2:00pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, May 9th
Will Bennett (Rhodes University)
Click Nasality as Pulmonic Airstream
2:00pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, May 16th
Matt Gordon (UC Santa Barbara)
Tonal Strength Hierarchies in Koasati: Where the Lexicon, Intonation, and Morphology Collide
2:00pm, AP&M 4301 Cancelled due to Illness

Thursday, June 2nd
David Reitter (Penn State)
Computational approaches to modeling dialogue
2:30pm, AP&M 4301

Winter 2016

Monday, February 29
Penny Eckert (Standford)
The Meaning of Variation
9:30 am, AP&M 4301

Fall 2015

Monday, October 19
Volya Kapatsinski (University of Oregon)
Base identity as (phonologized) perseveration
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, November 16th
Chris Kennedy (U Chicago)
Split scope and summative existentials: Two faces of bare quantification
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Friday, December 4
Joe Pater (U Mass)
Grammatical Agent-Based Modeling of Linguistic Typology
12:30 pm, AP&M 4301

Spring 2015

Wednesday, April 6
Alice Gaby (Monash University)
This I tell ya, brother: the mutual dependence of kinship and pragmatics
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, April 13
Jesse Harris (UCLA)
Processing Preferences in Focus-Sensitive Coordination: Locality and Parallelism
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, April 27
Mary Paster (Pomona)
Phonology Counts
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, May 11
Sharon Inkelas (UC Berkeley)
TBA
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Fall 2014

Monday, December 1
Rebekah Baglini (UC San Diego)
Cross-linguistic variation and the semantics of states
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, November 17
Sonja Pruitt-Lord (San Diego State University)
Comparing language profiles of AAE-speaking children in poverty to those with SLI - Clinical and Theoretical Considerations
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, October 6
Leah Fabiano-Smith (University of Arizona)
Speech Production in Bilingual Children: Theory Development and Clinical Implications
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Spring 2014

Monday, April 14
Maizer Toosarvandani (U.C. Santa Cruz)
The temporal interpretation of clause chaining in Northern Paiute
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, March 3
Stephen Wilson (University of Arizona)
Dual-route models of language: From Wernicke to today
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Winter 2014

Monday, February 3
Farrell Ackerman (U.C. San Diego)
Lessons from "Anomalies": Systemic Motivation in Grammar
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Fall 2013

Spring 2013

Monday, May 13
Andrew Garrett (U.C. Berkeley)
The chronology of Proto-Indo-European: New evidence from computational phylogenetics
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, May 6
Matt Wagers (U.C. Santa Cruz)
Grammatical prediction in Chamorro: WH agreement and real-time dependency formation
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, April 15
Daphna Heller (University of Toronto)
On the probabilistic nature of referential domains: evidence from mismatched perspectives
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, April 8
Dan Everett
Language as a Cultural Tool
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, April 1
Jochen Trommer & Eva Zimmermann (Leipzig University)
The linearization of morphological weight
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Winter 2013

Monday, March 4
James Kirby (U.of Edinburgh)
Divergence and stability in phonetic change
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, February 25
Marc Garellek (UCLA Linguistics)
The role of prosody in the production and distribution of glottal stops
1:30 pm, AP&M 4301

Wednesday, February 20
Jianjing Kuang
The role of phonation in the dispersion of tonal contrasts
1:30 pm, AP&M 4301

Friday, February 15
Christian DiCanio (Haskins Laboratory, Yale University)
Variation in Trique tone: from coarticulation to modeling
1:30 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, February 4
Joe Toscano (Postdoctoral fellow, Beckman Institute, UIUC)
Speech as information: Computational principles and neural
measures of speech processing

2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Tuesday, January 22
Liina Pylkkänen (NYU)
Building Meanings: The Computations of the Composing Brain
4:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Fall 2012

Monday, November 26
Colin Bannard (UT Austin)
"Coordination and Risk in Language Learning and Processing"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, November 19
Stuart Davis (Indiana University)
"Some Matters of Loanword Prosody" 
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Friday, October 26
Jason Stanley (Rutgers University)
"Know Wh-to"
4:00 pm, H&SS 7077

Monday, October 15
Höskuldur Thráinsson (University of Iceland)
How do Langauges Change?
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Spring 2012

Monday, May 14
Sharon Hargus (University of Washington)
Deg Xinag "Voiceless Unaspirates": A Case of Phonologically Driven Phonetics?
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, Apr 30
Yael Sharvit (UCLA)
"Tense and Universal Grammar"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Winter 2011

Monday, Apr 2
Karen Jensey (University of Southern California)
"Local and Non-local Markedness in Child Consonant Cluster Acquisition"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, Feb 6
Daniel Büring (University of Vienna)
"Exhaustivity in Clefts"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Fall 2011

Monday, Oct 17
Duane Watson (UIUC)
"Multiple roads to prominence: Understanding emphasis in conversation"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, Nov 7
Kristine Yu (UMaryland/UMass)
"The learnability of tones from the speech signal"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, Nov 28
David Perlmutter (UCSD)
"What is 'Subject Position' in the Germanic Languages?"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Spring 2011

Monday, May 9
Toby Mintz (USC)
"Distributional Analysis as a Method for Categorizing Words in Infancy"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, May 23
Hannah Rohde (Stanford)
"Hearing and Seeing Discourse Dependencies"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Winter 2010

Monday, January 31
Rob Malouf (SDSU)
"Information and evolution in morphology"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, February 14
Josep Quer (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
"Licensing empty arguments in sign languages: the view from Catalan Sign Language (LSC)"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, March 7
Jason Riggle (University of Chicago)
"Generative models of variation within and between languages"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Fall 2010

Monday, October 25
Susanne Gahl (UC Berkeley)
"Talker age and lexical determinants of speaking tempo"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Friday, October 22
Duane Watson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
This event has been canceled

Monday, October 18
Programs Abroad Expo
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When: 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Where: Library Walk
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Monday, October 11
Chris Potts (Stanford University)
"On the negativity of negation"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, September 27
Naomi Feldman (Brown University/University of Maryland)
"A probabilistic approach to phonetic learning and perception"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Spring 2010

Monday, May 17
Robert Daland (UCLA)
"The Role of Phonotactic Grammar in Word Recognition Models"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, May 10
Meghan Sumner (Stanford University)
"The effect of experience in the perception and representation of unfamiliar accents"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, April 26
Leslie Lee (UCSD)
"Acoustic Analysis of the Tonal System of Singapore Mandarin"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, April 12
Stefan Gries (UCSB)
"Data-driven approaches in corpus linguistics"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Winter 2010

Monday, February 8
Jim Hurford (University of Edinburgh)
"Syntax in the Light of Evolution"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, January 25
Line Mikkelsen (U.C. Berkley)
"Verb-second structures: Evidence from Danish VP anaphora"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Fall 2009

Monday, November 23
Beth Hume (OSU Linguistics)
"Nonmonotonic effects of frequency: Implications for the role of information in language"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Thursday, December 3
Cadiz Global Seminar Info Session
Art, Language & Culture of Flamenco and Spanish Dialectology
4:30-6pm, Oceanids Pavilion

Monday, October 26
Cadiz Global Seminar Info Session
Art, Language & Culture of Flamenco and Spanish Dialectology
4:30-6pm, Oceanids Pavilion

Monday, October 26
Linguistics Info Session
See the flyer
11am-12pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, October 12 
Roger Levy (UCSD Linguistics)
"The Processing of Extraposed Structures in English"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Spring 2009

Saturday, May 30, 2009
Maxx
Directed by Saman Moghadam (Iran, 2005)
In Farsi with English subtitles
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, May 18
David Barner (UCSD Psychology)
"Meaning and verification in language acquisition"
4:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Saturday, May 16, 2009
Tajja (The War of Flower)
Directed by Dong-hun Choi (S. Korea, 2006)
In Korean with English subtitles
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Saturday, May 9, 2009
The White Silk Dress (Áo lụa hà đông)
Directed by Lựu Huỳnh (Vietnam, 2006)
In Vietnamese with English subtitles
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, May 4
Jon Sprouse (UC Irvine)
"Looking for evidence in the islands debate: working memory capacity and acceptability judgments
Philip Hofmeister (UCSD)
"A processing-based view of syntactic island phenomena"

Saturday, April 25, 2009
Ama, Ina, Anak (Father, Mother, Child)
Directed by José Javier Reyes (Philippines, 1996)
In Filipino with English subtitles
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Thursday, April 23
The Linguists"
Film screening followed by discussion with David Harrison, one of the linguists featured on the film.
Click here for more information
Great Hall-International House, 5:00 P.M. (Free)

Monday, April 20
Tom Bever (University of Arizona)
"Extrinsic and Intrinsic Language Universals"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Saturday, April 18, 2009
The Other (L'Autre; El Akhar)
Directed by Youssef Chahine (Egypt, 1999)
In Arabic and English with English subtitles
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, April 13
Armin Mester (U.C. Santa Cruz)
"Gemination and the prosody of loanwords in Japanese"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, April 6
Robert Port (Indiana University)
"Rich linguistic memory shows language must be a social object, not psychological"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301