Jonathan David Bobaljik Harvard University The Itelmen Inclusive Imperative: Composing Clusivity he Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages have a complex agreement pattern that includes both prefixes (marking subjects) and suffixes (marking transitive objects or intransitive subjects). Intransitive subjects are thus doubly marked, once by the prefix and again by the suffix. Older texts show a previously […]
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Jiayi Lu University of Pennslyvania Probing the satiation of island effects Certain structural domains in sentences have been found to restrict syntactic operations (e.g., movements), a phenomenon termed the “island effect”. Recent work has revealed that some island-violated sentences, which are traditionally considered ungrammatical, are susceptible to satiation, an effect whereby speakers come […]
Graduate students and postdocs are encouraged to join the speaker for lunch after the seminar. To sign up for a spot, please email: jmarcus@upenn.edu Angeles Salles Department of Biological Sciences University of Illinois, Chicago Social Behavior and Acoustic Communication in Bats Bats are auditory specialists, using acoustic signals to guide their behaviors, […]
This event has been cancelled due to illness. Penn Neuroscience & Society Public Talk Series: The Brain in Socioeconomic Context “Socioeconomic influences on language development: Neural mechanisms of risk and resilience” Rachel Romeo Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology College of Education University of Maryland College Park Click here to […]
Briony Waite Department of Psychology Harvard University Lexical access during story listening across development Recognizing and retrieving words from the mental lexicon is a key aspect of understanding language in real time. Previous work with adults has shown that the amplitude of the N400, an ERP component related to accessing the meaning and […]