| Date |
Presenter |
Talk Title |
| 9/5 |
Kathryn Davidson, Annemarie Kocab (Harvard) |
Event structure and verbal morphology in American Sign Language |
| 9/12 |
Reading Group 1 |
The Price of Linguistic Productivity (Yang, 2016)
Readings: Chs. 1-2; Schuler, Yang, & Newport (2016) |
| 9/19 |
Reading Group 2 |
The Price of Linguistic Productivity (Yang, 2016)
Readings: Ch. 3 |
| 9/26 |
Reading Group 3 |
The Price of Linguistic Productivity (Yang, 2016)
Readings: The Past-Tense Debate (2002); O'Donnell et al. (2011) |
| 10/3 |
Reading Group 4 |
The Price of Linguistic Productivity (Yang, 2016)
Readings: Ch. 4 (excluding 4.2) |
| 10/10 |
Reading Group 5 |
The Price of Linguistic Productivity (Yang, 2016)
Readings: Ch. 6 (Ch. 7 optional) |
| 10/17 |
Gregory Scontras (UC Irvine) |
The role of subjectivity in adjective ordering preferences |
| 10/24 |
Brian Leahy (Harvard) |
Counterfactual reasoning and false belief reasoning |
| 10/31 |
Laurel Perkins (Maryland) |
Perceiving transitivity: Consequences for verb learning |
| 11/7 |
Jonathan Brennan (UMich) |
Linking brain signals with grammar using neuro-computational models |
| 11/14 |
Anthony Yacovone (Harvard) |
High predictability temporarily down-weights errors in subject-verb agreement |
| 11/28 |
Joseph Coffey (Harvard) |
Effects of atypical white matter development and lateralization on language in children with autism spectrum disorder |
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| Date |
Presenter |
Talk Title |
| 2/20 |
Richard Futrell (MIT) |
Memory and locality in natural language |
| 2/27 |
Sepideh Sadeghi (Tufts) |
A hybrid account of cross-situational word learning: Hypothesis testing meets associative learning |
| 3/6 |
Idan Blank (MIT) |
When we "know the meaning" of an utterance, what kind of knowledge do we have? |
| 3/20 |
Sudha Arunachalam (BU), Kathryn Davidson, Jesse Snedeker (Harvard) |
Panel on collaborations across the language sciences |
| 3/27 |
Till Poppels (UCSD/MIT) |
Referring to events by omitting the verb phrase: English VP-ellipsis as a form of reference |
| 4/3 |
Allison Fitch (BU) |
The role of object labels on infants' visual working memory |
| 4/10 |
Mina Cikara, Fiery Cushman, Leah Somerville, Tomer Ullman (Harvard), with Tobias Gerstenberg (MIT/Stanford) as discussant - WJH B1 @ 5 pm |
Panel on professional development (co-sponsored by Harvard's Women in Psychology group) |
| 4/17 |
Sabrina Horvath (BU) |
Verb vocabulary and verb learning in children with ASD |
| 4/24 |
Lauren Skorb (BC) |
Studies in the development of semantics |