LINKS
Past Workshops
Workshop on Foundational Topics in Semantics (NYU, May 8, 2018)
Workshop on Primate Linguistics (NYU, May 9, 2017)
Workshop on Music and Movement (NYU, May 23, 2016)
Workshop on Sign Language Meaning and Cognition (NYU, May 27, 2015)
Formal Semantics Beyond Spoken Language (series of tutorials, New York University, May 29, 2014 [in conjunction with SALT 2014])
Workshop on 'Semantic Approaches to Binding Theory', ESSLLI, Aug. 16-20, 2004
CNRS Project on Implicatures and Dynamic Semantics
Proceedings of 'Divisions of Linguistic Labor: the La Bretesche Workshop'
(June 2003; papers by Büring, Beyssade, Egré, Geurts & van der Sandt, Pancheva & Bhatt, Spector, Recanati, Schlenker, Sportiche)
Past Courses
Super Semantics (2 sessions, 6 hours, Rethymno 2017, November 2017)
Foundational Topics in Semantics (8 weeks, NYU, September-October 2017)
Meaning in Speech, Sign and Gestures (8 weeks, New York University, September-October 2016)
Primate Semantics (2 sessions, Cogmaster, ENS - January 2016)
Presupposition (3 sessions, Cogmaster, ENS - December 2015-January 2016)
The Semantics/Pragmatics Interface (8 weeks, New York University, September-October 2015)
Primate Linguistics (5 sessions, ESSLLI, Barcelona; August 3-7, 2015)
Sign Language and the Foundations of Semantics (6 hours, EGG, Brno; July 30-31, 2015)
Introduction to Formal Semantics - Week 1 (3 sessions, NYI, St Petersburg; July 13-17, 2015)
Sign Language Semantics (10 hours, Ecole Normale Supérieure, March-April 2015)
Monkey Semantics (6 hours, Université Libre de Bruxelles, February 7, 2015)
Primate Semantics (3 weeks, 7 hours, Ecole Normale Supérieure, December 2014-January 2015)
Presupposition (4 weeks, 9 hours, Ecole Normale Supérieure, November-December 2014)
Cross-Modal Semantics (8 weeks, New York University, September-October 2014)
Primate Linguistics (July 14-28, New York Institute, St Petersburg, Russia)
Anaphora: Insights from Sign Language (10 hours, GLOW Spring School, Brussels, April 7-11, 2014)
Primate Semantics (5 weeks, Cogmaster, Paris, November-December 2013)
Primate Linguistics (and Beyond) (8 weeks, New York University, September-October 2013)
Presupposition and Anaphora (4 weeks, Ecole Normale Supérieure, March-April 2013)
Primate Linguistics (research seminar [with outside speakers], Spring Semester, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 2013)
Sign Language and the Foundations of Semantics (7 weeks, New York University, September-October 2012)
Presupposition and Anaphora (5 weeks, Ecole Normale Supérieure, December 2011-January 2012)
Literal vs. Non-literal Meaning (7 weeks, New York University, September-October 2011)
Semantics and Sign Language (5-session course at ESSLLI 2011, Ljubljana, August 2011)
The Semantics of Pronouns (2 weeks, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, May 2011)
Lean Semantics (7 weeks, New York University, September-October 2010)
Meaning in Spoken vs. Sign Languages: Three Case Studies (3 lectures, NYI, St Petersburg, July 20-23, 2010)
Local Contexts (1 tutorial, JSM, Nancy, March 23, 2010)
Philosophy and Semantics (2 sessions, ENS, Paris, Winter 2009)
Formal and Experimental Semantics
(co-taught with E. Chemla; 7 sessions, ENS, Paris, Winter 2009)
Cross-Reference (7 weeks, New York University, September-November 2009)
Semantics and Pragmatics: Formal and Experimental Approaches
(co-taught with E. Chemla; 9 sessions, ENS, Paris, Spring 2009)
The New Presupposition Debate (3 sessions, EALing, ENS, Paris, September 2008)
The New Presupposition Debate (7 weeks, New York University, September-October 2008)
Current Debates in Formal Pragmatics (2-week course at the New York-St. Petersburg Institute of Cognitive and Cultural Studies, July 2008)
Presupposition Projection: the New Debate (4 lectures, ACTL Spring School, London, April 2008)
Pragmatique Expérimentale (1 session, with E. Chemla, ENS, Jan. 2008)
Seminar on Presupposition (UCLA, Fall 2007)
Binding Theory - Empirical Aspects
[Site set up thanks to A. Furmanska, A. Lima and V. Homer as part of the NSF Project 'Formal Semantic and Pragmatic Approaches to Binding Theory'].
Presupposition
(2-week course at the New York-St. Petersburg Institute of Cognitive and Cultural Studies, July 2007)
Linguistics 1: Introduction to the Study of Language (Winter 2006)
Semantic Theory I (UCLA, Winter 2007)
Updated lecture notes (some from 2009, some from 2007)
Introduction à la Linguistique (3 sessions, ENS, Paris, October 2005)
Tree of life
Science news
Primate Communication
Radio program discussing primate calls [Jean Claude Ameisen, in French]
Primates at Cornell's Macaulay Library of animal sounds
• Primate gestures
Hobaiter on chimpanzee gestures
Drongos producing false alarms to meerkats
Animal Psychology
Crow intelligence (PBS documentary, 2010)
Octopus intelligence (Nature Documentary, 2011)
Cuddlefish (PBS documentary, 2011)
Interview with Catherine Hobaiter
Bibliographies
Academia
Proposal to the LSA: Adopt the Chicago Principles (with replies to objections)
Linguistics
List of summer schools in linguistics
Yuqing Guo on Tree-Adjoining Grammars (2006)
Tutorial on Tree-Adjoining Grammar
Automatic translation
Machine Learning
Michael Nielsen's Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Making appointments across time zones (…while taking into account daylight savings):
Individual Pages
Science and its Applications
John Hawks's blog (paleoanthropology)
Human evolution education resources
Gödel's Lost Letter and P = NP (computation)
Mark Thoma's Economist's View (economics - meta-blog)
Paul Krugman's blog (economics)
Greg Mankiw's blog (economics)
Research Policy
Improving procedures within CNRS
The ERC should adopt an award-based funding procedure
Pour une recherche française exemplaire (recueil collectif)
La recherche française et les standards internationaux
Pour la création d'un "search committee" pour la direction de l'ENS-Ulm (2012)
Quatre Principes pour Réformer la Recherche
Pétition concernant l'évaluation en Sciences Humaines et Sociales
Trust Researchers (European Initiative) [original link currently unavailable]
Culture
• Paris
• Radio
History
(and Mendès France on music)
For vegan colleagues
Sign Language Resources
• LSA Resolution on Sign Languages (2001)
• LSA Guidelines for Using Sign Language Interpreters
• LSF
Elix dictionary (LSF dictionary, with some definitions in LSF)
L'Oeil et la Main (French LSF TV program)
Signes (Swiss LSF TV program)
Deaf history (Yann Cantin, LSF)
Bilingual education explained (LSF)
'Ce soir nous irons au bal' (song in French and LSF)
Vocabulaire musical en LSF (music terms in LSF)
• ASL
–Vocabulary
Signing Savvy (dictionary of ASL)
Science/Mathematics ASL Lexicon
ASL Clear (science and technology)
–News and TV
Deaf Mosaic (historical ASL news)
–Video book
Acquisition of sign language [chapter 3 is on YouTube]
–Lectures
Signs in history (Supalla)
The brain (Bosworth)
–Other
On sign language discourse (in ASL)
On Black ASL (J. Hill; in ASL)
Introduction to SignWriting (in ASL)
Re-representing D-E-A-F (Commerson)
Highlights of the National Gallery of Art in ASL
Japanese, American and French Sign language - a few words
• Deaf history
Yann Cantin's chronology of Deaf history in France
Other Language Resources
Music Cognition
Fred Lerdahl's first LINGUAE Lecture, 2012 ('Musical Syntax and its Relation to Linguistic Syntax')
Leonard Bernstein's 'Young People's Concerts': What does music mean? [video][script]
Leonard Bernstein's 'Young People's Concerts' Vol. 2
Leonard Bernstein's 1973 Harvard Lectures, 'The Unanswered Question': [1][2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Leonard Bernstein on the genesis of Beethoven's Fifth
Leonard Bernstein, What is Jazz? [a study in minimal pairs]
Music
• Music experiments
• Abstract musical animations
Tarantella [abstract musical animation, Edwin Gerschefski]
[The following through J. Rawski:]
Oskar Fischinger, An Optical Poem [on Liszt's 2nd Rhapsody]
Oskar Fischinger - 1931 Studie No.7 Hungarian Dance no. 5
Oskar Fischinger - Studie No. 8
[This one thanks to Regine Eckardt]
• Musical cartoons
Silly Symphony - Compilation - YouTube
• Musical line riders
• Music stimuli
• Film music
• Clips cited at IRCAM's workshop on emotion and music (June 2016)
Table Music, Thierry de Mey
Fase, Thierry de Mey
Silence must be!, Thierry de Mey
Vox Humana, Hyun-Hwa Cho
• Other
Musical examples discussed in Wolff's Pourquoi la musique
Music and the brain [Arte documentary, in German]
Sounds in film [in French]: Ecouter le cinéma
Dance
• Dance semantics
P. Patel-Grosz on dance semantics
• Hand dance
Early recordings
Gounod's Ave Maria (piano and cello), c. 1906
Yiddish drinking song, c. 1903
Bilingual songs
The Partisan [Marly] [Cohen] [Cohen]
Mary on le Chant des Partisans [in French]