Semantics Reading Group on Thursday
The Semantics Reading Group will be meeting this Thursday 8pm at Rajesh's place. We will be hearing NELS practice talks by
Chloe Gu, on
Maximalization and the definite reading in Mandarin wh-conditionals and
Maria Biezma, on
Inverted antecedents in hidden conditionals
Thanks Martin!
Language and Computation Thursday: Luiz Amaral
Luiz Amaral of Languages, Literatures and Cultures will present to the Language and Computation group this Thursday, October 29th at 6 p.m. in the Partee room. His talk will be entitled "Using Natural Language Processing in Computer Assisted Language Learning: challenges and approaches." Click
here for an abstract. All welcome!
UMMM on Sunday
UMMM, the biannual MIT/UMass workshop on phonetics and phonology (now joined by Rutgers), will be held at UMass this Sunday. Our
Wendell Kimper and Claire Moore-Cantwell will be presenting.
Thanks John!
Special lecture in Tom Roeper's class on Tuesday
Special Lectures will be held in
Tom Roeper's class next week, on Tuesday 4:00 PM, November 3, 2009 in the
Partee Room:
Kristine Bentzen: "Embedded root phenomena in Scandinavian and English: The (ir)relevance of assertion and presupposition"
Marit Westergaard: "Word order development in English and Norwegian: Micro-cues, information structure and economy"
Kristine Bentzen and Marit Westergaar are both from CASTL in Tromsø, Norway. Marit Westergaard is the Head of CASTL in Tromsø and Kristine Bentzen is a recent PhD. They work in linguistic theory, dialect studies, and language acquisition and they are part of the Scandinavian Dialect Project.
A Pizza Dinner will follow at Tom Roeper and Laura Holland's home, 149 High St, Amherst at 7:00PM.
Everyone is Welcome!
