March 11th
Sara Johanson (MA student, Linguistics). Title: TBA.
March 25th
Degif Banksira (Linguistics). Title: Against Mobile Morphemes
April 1st
Vit Bubenik (Linguistics).
Title: On the Establishment of Ergative Alignment in Indo-Aryan Languages
Talks start at 4pm. Receptions to follow. All are welcome.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Reminder: "Pushing the Envelope: Are Analogy-Based Approaches to Phonological Acquisition Viable?"
The first talk in this semester`s seminar series, by Yvan Rose and Todd Wareham, will take place tomorrow at 4pm in SN 4073. A small reception follows in the seminar room.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
BROWN BAGG-(ing) - TODAY!
Suzanne Power and Evan Hazenberg will be discussing variable (ing) in data collected in Placentia, NL, and Ottawa, ON.
Feel free to bring your lunch or a snack for the group. We are hungry grad students.
Date: Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location: FM-2006 (Sociolinguistics lab)
Feel free to bring your lunch or a snack for the group. We are hungry grad students.
Date: Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location: FM-2006 (Sociolinguistics lab)
Monday, January 17, 2011
Talk on the Making of the Dictionary of NFLD English
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Congratulations to Phil Branigan!
Dr. Branigan's new book, "Provocative Syntax" has been published as Linguistics Inquiry Monograph 61, by the MIT Press.
More information about Dr. Branigan's book can be found here.
What people are saying about Phil (and his book) (from the MIT Press page):
"Provocative Syntax is a desperately needed breath of fresh air for Minimalist syntax's model of movement. ‘Provocation’ is an exciting alternative to the EPP that is still well grounded in Chomskyan tradition. This book is a must-read for anyone dissatisfied with motivating movement via uninterpretable features."
—Daniel Siddiqi, School of Linguistics
"Provocative Syntax sparkles with originality and erudition. Branigan brilliantly connects seemingly unrelated theoretical strands to weave a tight and elegant model of syntactic movement and provides theoretically unified solutions to many outstanding problems in the syntax of Germanic and Romance. Among the numerous books and papers spawned by Chomsky’s Minimalist program, this book is one of the most profound I’ve read.”
—Ur Shlonsky, Professor of Linguistics, University of Geneva
Seminar Series starts up again
Yvan Rose (Department of Linguistics) and Todd Wareham (Department of Computer Science) will be speaking on the topic of phonological acquisition. Please see the abstract below. All are welcome to attend!
February 11, 2011
4-5pm
Location: TBA
February 11, 2011
4-5pm
Location: TBA
Pushing the Envelope:
Are Analogy-Based Approaches to Phonological Acquisition Viable?
Are Analogy-Based Approaches to Phonological Acquisition Viable?
When learning a language, children must first learn the phonological categories (e.g. sound and syllable types) particular to that language. Even though such learning appears to exploit statistical regularities in language input (e.g. Kuhl 2004), this seems at odds with a growing body of evidence that the later stages of phonological acquisition are performed at a more symbolic level (e.g. Thiessen & Saffran 2003). One way of dealing with this problem is to assume that acquisition occurs by progressive and incremental generalizations over linguistic inputs. Such a model phrased within Dedre Gentner's structure-mapping theory of analogy-based generalization has been shown to be consistent with the later acquisition of individual words, syntax, and relational categories.
This suggests two important questions:
1) Can such a (possibly modified) model work for phonological acquisition?
2) How might such a model be tested?
In this talk, we will give some preliminary answers and further thoughts on these questions.
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Twig: a blog
This just came across my desk - a blog about the Dictionary of Newfoundland English and, well, words!
http://twignl.wordpress.com/
The entries are topical and timely - look now and you'll see one about Mummering and another on words that make you bivver, like creak-cold and airsome!
An interesting look behind-the-scenes at the DNE.
http://twignl.wordpress.com/
The entries are topical and timely - look now and you'll see one about Mummering and another on words that make you bivver, like creak-cold and airsome!
An interesting look behind-the-scenes at the DNE.
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