Series
(Rescheduled from April 16.)
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Meeting ID: 950 4949 1821
Engaging cognitive control helps children ignore unreliable sentence processing cues
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African American English and early literacy: A comparison of approaches to quantifying nonmainstream dialect use
Do children know WHanything? Acquisition of Mandarin wh-indefinites
Abstract: Unlike English wh-words like “what”, Mandarin wh-words have both an interrogative and an indefinite interpretation, as shown in (1).
(1) Xiaoxiao mei chi shenme.
Xiaoxiao NEG eat what
a. Interrogative: What didn’t Xiaoxiao eat?
b. Indefinite: Xiaoxiao didn’t eat anything/much.
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Research in language science can be limited by convenience
Lunch served at 12:15, talk starts at 12:30. This week boxed lunches will be available for the first 40 attendees, so come on time or bring your own lunch!
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Adam Fisbein (NACS)
Sequence in birdsong: What humans assume and what birds are telling us
Lunch served at 12:15, talk starts at 12:30.
Erika Exton: The 'bilingual baby problem': Identifying code switches in unfamiliar languages
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Patrick Plummer, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Howard University
The Effects of Word Frequency and Contextual Diversity on Word Recognition During Reading
Lunch served at 12:15, talk starts at 12:30.
How many grammars of Accusative-and-Infinitive constructions can we prove there to be in English?
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Zara Harmon (Postdoc, LING/UMIACS)
Morphological Productivity: what do we learn from comprehension and production?
Abstract TBA.
THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELED due to concerns about the coronavirus.
Hyo Gweon (Psychology, Stanford)
Title: Social Curiosity and Social Learning
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