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06:30 (2008-11-06)
November 6, 2008
Philosophy Colloquium: Maya Eddon
Maya Eddon
UMass Amherst
Three arguments from temporary intrinsics
Friday, November 7, 3:30 pm, Bartlett 206
First Meeting of the UMass Psycholinguistics Experiment Co-operative
The UMass Psycholinguistics Experiment Co-operative (UMPEC!) will have its first organizational meeting on Wednesday, November 12 (that's a UMass Tuesday), at 5:15 pm in South College 105. Everyone is welcome.
[Thanks Meg!]
Semantics Reading Group on November 14
SRG will hold a special meeting on Friday November 14, 3:00 pm, in the department lounge. The plan is to read Dorit Abusch's latest manuscript Circumstantial and temporal dependence in counterfactual modals. In addition, Barbara Partee will host the group for dinner that evening; more details will be provided at the meeting.
[Thanks Aynat!]
Brett Hyde Lecture on November 14
Bretty Hyde will visit the department on November 14 to meet with people and give an informal lecture titled 'How alignment creates stress windows.' The talk will begin at 3:30 pm in the Partee Room.
[Thanks Joe!]
NECPhon on November 15
The second North East Computational Phonology Workshop takes place on Saturday, November 15, at Yale. Here's a tentative schedule; the precise timing of everything is still being sorted out:
Update [Thanks Joe]: The website is now up.
| Joe Pater (UMass Amherst) | Emergent simplicity bias in a Gradual Maximum Entropy Learner |
| Bruce Tesar (Rugers) | Learning phonological grammars for output-driven maps |
| Sarah Eisenstat (Brown) | Learning underlying forms together with constraint weights |
| Mark Johnson (Brown) | Improving word segmentation by also learning syllable structure |
| Jennifer Michaels (MIT) | Summing up constraint interactions: Chain shifts in a split additive model |
| Giorgio Magri (MIT) | A convergent version of the GLA for standard OT |
| Gaja Jarosz & J. Alex Johnson (Yale) | Comparing phonotactic cues to word boundaries in three languages |
Martin Walkow Nominated for Distinguished Teaching Award
Martin Walkow has been nominated for a Distinguished Teaching Award. Congratulations, Martin!
Forthcoming Papers from Joe Pater
Joe Pater has had an extremely productive year. In addition to starting his joint NSF project with John McCarthy, he has published a number of papers.
Joe's 'Harmonic Grammar and linguistic typology" has been accepted for publication in Cognitive Science, a premier interdisciplinary journal (here is an earlier version).
Joe has also recently been involved in a number of collaborative projects on Harmonic Grammar. A paper with Andries Coetzee, 'Weighted constraints and gradient restrictions on place co-occurrence in Muna and Arabic', has just been published in NLLT (pre-publication draft), and papers with Chris Potts, Rajesh Bhatt and Michael Becker (Harmonic Grammar and linear programming: From linear systems to linguistic typology) and Paul Boersma (Convergence Properties of a Gradual Learning Algorithm for Harmonic Grammar) are in submission.
Tom Ernst's Paper to Appear in NLLT
Tom Ernst's paper 'On speaker-oriented adverbs as positive polarity items' has been accepted for publication at Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Congratulations, Tom!