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ILST seminar: Rafael Ventura

April 29, 2022
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Rafael Ventura SCEW Postdoc/MindCORE   via Zoom   Drift and Selection in Language Change   Over half a century ago, George Zipf observed that more frequent words tend to be older. Corpus studies since then have confirmed this pattern, with frequent words being replaced and regularizing less often. Two main hypotheses have been proposed to […]

Philippe Schlenker Directeur de Recherche, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris Global Distinguished Professor, New York University   Click here to register!   Combining Logic and Iconicity in Sign Language Semantics   It has long been accepted that sign language (i) employs the same logical structures as spoken language (occasionally making its abstract components overt), and simultaneously […]