We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Jesse Snedeker Department of Psychology Harvard University Bottom-up syntax and top-down lexical processing in children: a theoretical challenge Twenty-five years ago, I started working with John Trueswell on how children resolve syntactic ambiguity. The findings were cumulative, […]
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Roman Feiman Department of Linguistics Brown University Towards a theory of thought: How compositional semantics can inform psychology When we speak, we express thoughts. When other people understand what we say, they have reverse-engineered what we were thinking. Psychologists have long been interested in what thoughts are, while linguists have been interested in […]
This will be a virtual seminar, via Zoom. We welcome attendees in room 111 Levin Building for group viewing and Q&A with the speaker after the talk. A pizza lunch will be served. Please bring your own beverage. To join remotely, please contact us for the Zoom link: jmarcus@sas.upenn.edu Fiona Jordan Department […]
1st-year graduate students in Linguistics will present mini-talks: Speaker: Quỳnh-Giang Đặng Title: Differentiating SELF in Vietnamese Abstract: In Vietnamese, the quantifier tự is morphologically distinct from the adnominal intensifier chính and the reflexive pronoun bản thân. While the morphological similarity between SELF and reflexives in many languages might make it desirable to unify them, I demonstrate that […]