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ILST Seminar: Ruthe Foushee

November 14, 2025
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Ruthe Foushee Director, Center for Human Language & Development The New School for Social Research   Active Learning and Social Ecologies in Cross-Cultural Language Development   How is language development so consistent, when language learning environments are so variable? I will talk about two intertwined lines of recent and ongoing work in response to the […]

Alexander Williams Department of Linguistics University of Maryland   Must Haves (Joint work with Valentine Hacquard and Dan Goodhue)   This is an exploratory talk about epistemic uses of “have to” and how they differ from those of “must”. The difference is important semantically because analyses of epistemic modality have been based on the bad […]

Paloma Jeretič Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania   What does have mean? how patterns across languages can shed light on the building blocks of linguistic meaning   The auxiliary verb have has a wide range of functions in English. It is unclear whether it should have one highly underspecified meaning, several different meanings, or […]

We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please email: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu   Sarah McAnulty Science Communicator Executive Director, Skype a Scientist   Weaving Science into Philly Neighborhoods   Science communication exists within an ecosystem of messaging. Every day, people experience messages from social media, traditional news sources, and conversations with their fellow […]