Events
Guest Speaker: Professor Erhard Hinrichs
Wordnets such as the Princeton WordNet for English and GermaNet for German provide useful digital resources for Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, and beyond. The basic building blocks of a wordnet are word senses which are clustered by synonymy and … Read more
The Enduring Impact of Lemko Minority Persecution in Poland: Socio-Linguistic and Economic Outcomes
Since the Middle Ages, the Lemkos (lem. Лемкы) have inhabited their homeland, Lemkowyna (lem. Лемковина), located in the Carpathian Mountains. After World War II, the Polish communist authorities forcibly resettled the Lemkos to the western and northern regions of the … Read more
Friday Colloquium: Prof. Kristen Syrett, Rutgers
Categorizing and quantifying parts of objects: A window into how children and adults interpret count nouns and their reference Count nouns such as ‘cup’ and ‘ball’ are among the first words that children correctly interpret and produce. One might, … Read more
Friday Colloquium: Emma Wrenn, The Sound System of Santiago Azajo P’urhepecha
Our speaker will be Emma Wrenn. Her presentation, “The Sound System of Santiago Azajo P’urhepecha”, will also be her undergraduate honors thesis defense Abstract This is an account of the phonetic structures of Santiago Azajo P’urhepecha, a dialect of the P’urhepecha … Read more
Friday Colloquium: The Copador Writing System of Honduras and El Salvador: Initial Documentation and Decipherment Steps
Our speakers will be Ana Kisley and David Mora-Marin who will present their work, “The Copador Writing System of Honduras and El Salvador: Initial Documentation and Decipherment Steps”.
Friday Colloquium: Practice Talk, “How much overt agreement is needed for polysynthesis? Quantitative evidence from Cherokee.”
Our speakers will be Erin Humphreys and Brian Hsu, who will be giving a practice talk for their upcoming presentation at the 48th annual Penn Linguistics Conference:”How much overt agreement is needed for polysynthesis? Quantitative evidence from Cherokee.”
Friday Colloquium: Dr. Jo Napoli, “Movement in Sign Language”
Although we will not be having a pre-talk preparation session, Professor Napoli has asked that in advance of the colloquium, attendees familiarize themselves with notion of an optical illusion. Our own Professor Moreton has curated the following list of resources … Read more
Friday Colloquium: Trey Anthony, The Effect of Gender and Linguistic Ideology on Acceptability Judgements of Non-Binary Language in Spanish
Spanish, unlike English, does not have an established pronoun akin to singular ‘they’, that is to say, an already-existing pronoun with a long history of non-binary usage for either known or unknown referents. However, the greater visibility of non-binary people … Read more