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We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu   Shawniqua Williams Roberson Department of Neurology Vanderbilt University Medical Center   Altered Reality from the Outside Looking In: Pathogenesis, Biomarkers and Outcomes of Delirium   Of approximately 6 million admissions to intensive care units (ICUs) in the United States […]

Join us for mini-talks by ILST trainees.   Annika Heuser – “Information theoretic voicing hypothesis generation”   Phonemic voicing contrasts differ cross-linguistically, both in terms of the nature of the contrasts and their phonetic realizations. Children must learn which perceptual cues are helpful for distinguishing voiced vs. voiceless phonemes as they are realized in various […]

Filipe Hisao Kobayashi Department of Linguistics MIT   Interpreting NPs as predicates of individual concepts   The starting point of this talk is an observation due to Nathan (2006) concerning the meaning of sentences of the form ‘every NP changed.’ For example, for sentence (1) to be true, it must be that I replaced every […]