Marlyse Baptista Department of Linguistics University of Michigan Cognition and language emergence: A focus on Creole genesis Creole languages typically emerge in multilingual settings involving dramatic power differentials between the populations in contact, as in the case of enslavement, indentured or migrant labor. They result from the multiple, complex social factors and linguistic […]
Events
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 […]
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 […]
Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences & brainSTIM Center “Year of Neuromodulation” Christoph Zrenner, PhD – Univ. of Toronto “Real-Time Brain-State Estimation for Personalized Therapeutic Neuromodulation with EEG and TMS: Uncertainty in Space and Time” Host: John Medaglia
Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM*) 2 Organizers: Anna Papafragou and Florian Schwarz, Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania Email: organizers@elm-conference.net Twitter: @ELM_Conference The second Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) conference will be held at the University of Pennsylvania on May 19-21, 2022. The conference is dedicated to the experimental study of linguistic meaning broadly construed, with […]