Author Archives: Kenny
Prof. Vera Kempe is visiting from the University of Abertay Dundee, and will give a talk on “Exploring Iterated Language Learning in Children”, detailing some recent work she’s been doing to adapt the method from the Kirby, Cornish & Smith (2008) PNAS paper for kids. Tuesday 5th February, 11am, DSB 1.17.
Rachael Bailes will give a talk about a paper she’s working on: “Levels of analysis in the common ground debate”, Tuesday 29th January, 11am, DSB 1.17.
We’ll kick off 2013 with a talk from Vanessa Ferdinand: “How we lose variation through learning: on the domain-generality of linguistic regularization biases”, Tuesday 15th January, 11am, DSB 1.17.
For our last LEC meeting of the year, Chris Petkov (http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/chris.petkov/) and Ben Wilson (http://www.ncl.ac.uk/cbe/postgrad/phd/wilson.htm) will give a talk on “Artificial grammar learning and the nonhuman primate brain: Perspectives from marmosets, macaques and chimps”. Tuesday 18th December, 11am-12.30, DSB 1.17.
Unfortunately this week’s talk has had to be cancelled due to illness.
Gary Lupyan (http://sapir.psych.wisc.edu/) will deliver a Masterclass on the 27th and 28th November. Masterclasses are intended specifically for students on the MSc in the Evolution of Language and Cognition, although everyone is welcome to attend Tuesday 27th November, 11am-1pm, DSB 1.17, “The meaning of nonsense words: sound symbolism, iconicity, and crossmodal mappings” Wednesday 28th November, 10am-11am, [...]
Mark Aronoff (Stony Brook University) is in town, and will give a talk on “Partial organisation in languages”. Full title and abstract below. Tuesday 20th, 11am, DSB 1.17. Partial organization in languages: La langue est un système où la plupart se tien(nen)t Grammarians and linguists for the last several millennia have assumed that languages are fully [...]
We’ll attempt to attempt to fit two things into the usual LEC slot: Keelin Murray has a 10 minute talk she’d like to get feedback on, then Justin Sulik will use the remaining time to talk about his PhD research on “Abductive inference and insight in the evolution of symbolic communication”. Usual time and place: [...]
Vanessa and Rachael will present sketches of experiments they’d like to run, with a view to doing a bit of group brainstorming and helping them firm up their plans. All welcome as usual, but this will hopefully be a very informal and fluid meeting, probably with lots of shouting. Usual time and place: Tuesday, 11am, [...]