Events

We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu   Jennifer Morton Presidential Compact Associate Professor of Philosophy University of Pennsylvania   Interpreting Obstacles   The pursuit of challenging, long-term goals is characterized by our frequent encounters with setbacks and challenges that threaten our confidence. In other work, Sarah Paul and […]

ILST seminar: Marlyse Baptista

February 24, 2023
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Marlyse Baptista Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania   An experimental approach to congruence in language contact with implications for Creole genesis   In Baptista (2020), I provided a survey of congruent forms in 20 contact languages across 19 grammatical domains (including negation,Tense, Mood, Aspect markers, complementizers…), as they were reported in the scholarly literature […]

We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the Zoom link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu     Marlene Cohen Department of Neurobiology University of Chicago   Feature interference: a neuronal population hypothesis about limits on cognition   Flexible cognition is a hallmark of human behavior, but it comes with limits. There are costs to […]

ILST seminar: Byron Ahn

March 3, 2023
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Byron Ahn Department of Linguistics Princeton University   Singular they and its reflexive forms   In recent years, they pronouns have been undergoing a noted change, being used and accepted in a greater number of contexts. In particular, a growing number of speakers accept they in contexts where the referent is singular, definite, and specific […]