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  • From January 1, 2018
  • To November 15, 2023

SCEW Seminar: Cesko Voeten

November 10, 2023
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Cesko Voeten Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania   Changes in the Philadelphia accent from the perspective of natural selection   Next to being used as a system for communication, language additionally conveys a large amount of social information. In the literature on language change, there is agreement that this social function of language plays […]

ILST Seminar: Albert Kim

November 10, 2023
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Albert Kim Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Lab University of Colorado   Real time human language comprehension: Predictive processing in an unpredictable world   In order to comprehend human language in real time, readers and listeners make predictions about the upcoming linguistic input. Predictions enable comprehenders to prepare in advance for rapidly unfolding, pervasively ambiguous linguistic […]