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NOTE UNUSUAL DAY AND TIME Friday 23 October, 16:00–17:30 Room 1.17, DSB Jelle Zuidema, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam Deep learning models of language processing and the evolution of syntax Researchers that assume discrete, symbolic models of syntax, tend to reject gradualist accounts in favor of a ‘saltationist’ view, where the [...]
Tuesday 13th October, 11:00–12:30 Room 1.17, DSB Jenny Culbertson Language learning and word order regularities: Children’s errors reflect a typological preference for harmonic patterns Much recent debate in cognitive science concerns whether language universals exist and whether there is a connection between language acquisition, language change, and linguistic typology. However, recent studies have made important [...]
NOTE UNUSUAL DAY, TIME, AND LOCATION Friday 2nd October, 14:00–15:30 Informatics Forum, 4.31/4.33 Ted Gibson, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT Information theoretic approaches to language universals Finding explanations for the observed variation in human languages is the primary goal of linguistics, and promises to shed light on the nature of human cognition. One [...]
Tuesday 22nd September, 11:00–12:30 Room 1.17, DSB Olga Fehér Structural priming in an artificial language I am going to talk about a study that used artificial language learning paradigms to investigate structural priming (coordination with the syntactic structure of the partner’s previous utterance) during communicative interaction. We trained participants on artificial languages exhibiting unpredictable variation [...]