Andrea Beltrama MindCORE Fellow University of Pennsylvania When is the food simply delicious? Tackling the puzzle of emphatic exclusives When occurring next to predicates located at the extreme of a scale, exclusive modifiers such as “just” and “simply” contribute an emphatic effect, intensifying the meaning of the utterance. I will refer to these […]
Events
Alex Filipowicz Kable Lab, University of Pennsylvania Title and abstract forthcoming A pizza lunch will be served.
Deepu Murty Department of Psychology Temple University “The influence of agency on encoding and post-encoding processes” Click here for more information.
Rushen Shi Université du Québec à Montréal Grammatical Acquisition in the First Years of Life How do children begin language acquisition? According to certain classic views, preverbal and early verbal infants lack grammatical knowledge. In this talk I will discuss empirical findings from my lab showing that infants start acquiring aspects of the […]
Pratik Chaudhari Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering University of Pennsylvania A picture of the energy landscape of deep neural networks Deep networks are mysterious. These over-parametrized machine learning models, trained with rudimentary optimization algorithms on non-convex landscapes in millions of dimensions have defied attempts to put a sound theoretical footing beneath their […]