We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Sarah Robins Department of Philosophy Purdue University The Engram Renaissance Memory traces have a long history. For Plato, they were birds in aviaries; for William James, they were furniture in the mind’s rooms. They’ve also been phonographic records, […]
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Aini Li Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania Co-occurrence, extension, and social salience: The emergence of indexicality in an artificial language We investigated the emergence of sociolinguistic indexicality using an artificial-language-learning paradigm. Sociolinguistic indexicality involves the association of linguistic variants with nonlinguistic social or contextual features. Any linguistic variant can acquire “constellations” of […]
The 48th Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC 48) will be hosted at Penn March 16-17, 2024. Run by grad students in Penn Linguistics, they welcome submissions from faculty, grad students, undergrads & researchers. Abstract submissions are are due Nov 17, 2023. For more information and to submit, please see the PLC Call for Papers website.