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Acquisition of Scalar Implicatures
Friday, August 17, 2007, 2:30 pm, Machmer W-26
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05:19 (2007-07-26)
July 26, 2007
Brief Institute Report
The 2007 Linguistic Institute finishes this week. The crew of UMass Amherst linguists has enjoyed a wonderfully stimulating and challenging month --- and all are now completely exhausted. We'll try to gather pictures and good gossip for a later WHISC.
Expressives in The Boston Globe
Chris Potts's grant work on expressives was covered recently in The Boston Globe, and UMass Amherst Linguistics alum Kai von Fintel (MIT) makes an appearance as well:
J. M. Berger. Coming soon, a linguist's guide to obscenities. The Boston Globe Health and Science section, July 9, 2007.
And see Berger's additional material, as well as Chris's related Language Log post.
Penn Lambda Calculator
Lambda: The Semantics Tool is available for download (all platforms). Lambda is joint work by Lucas Champollion, Josh Tauberer and Maribel Romero (1998 UMass Amherst PhD; now Associate Professor at Penn). This is a first-rate tool for teaching lambdas in the Heim and Kratzer style. Thanks to the developers for making it available! |
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Phonology Group
As usual, PhG is going (fairly) strong all summer long. On July 11, John McCarthy gave a talk entitled 'Metrically-conditioned syncope in OT-CC'.
[Thanks Kathryn P!]
SNEWS 2007 at MIT
MIT has agreed to host SNEWS (Southern New England Workshop in Semantics) this coming fall. The local organizers are Jillian Mills and Giorgio Magri.
[Thanks Jillian and Giorgio!]