Events

SCEW seminar: Yuta Masuda

April 15, 2022
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Yuta Masuda Senior Sustainable Development and Behavioral Scientist The Nature Conservancy   via Zoom   Using experiments to understand the role of human behavior in conservation programs   Human institutions and behaviors are a critical component of conservation programs. Conservation programs often rely on changing human behaviors or institutions to achieve environmental and human well-being […]

ILST seminar: Daniel Goodhue

April 15, 2022
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Daniel Goodhue University of Maryland   Knowledge of clause type-speech act mappings in preschoolers and infants     Languages tend to have three basic clause types (declarative, interrogative, imperative) that are canonically associated with three basic communicative functions (assertion, question, request). And yet, the specific forms used to express each function vary from language to […]