- American Sign Language involved faculty and alumni at Fifty Years of Linguistics at UConn.
- GLOW in Asia 2019
- UConn Linguists at NELS 50
- From Sounds to Structures: Beyond the Veil of Maya
- Fifty Years of Linguistics at UConn
- Oak Hall
- GLOW 42
- David Michaels speaking at Fifty Years of Linguistics at UConn
- Arthur S. Abramson, 1925-2017, Founding Department Head
News
- UConn Linguists at NELSThe 53rd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society is taking place 12-14th of January, at University of Göttingen (https://nels53.uni-goettingen.de), and UConn Linguistics will be well represented, with main session talks by… Linghui Eva Gan. Perspective Blend and Indexical Shift in Hong Kong Sign Language Miloje Despić (PhD 2011, now at Cornell) & Michael […]Posted on January 12, 2023
- Yang DefenseMuyi Yang successfully defended her dissertation Varieties of conditionals as definite descriptions on December 15th. Congratulations, Muyi! Muyi defending: Dr. Yang with her committee: Dr. Yang with her well-earned cake:Posted on December 17, 2022
- UConn linguists at Amsterdam ColloquiumThe 23rd Amsterdam Colloquium is taking place 19–21 December, 2022, and UConn linguistics will be represented there by the following presentations: Ting Xu (PhD 2016, now at Tsinghua University), William Snyder and Stella Christie. Mandarin-speaking children’s understanding of you ‘again’ with goal-PPs (lightning talk/poster) Yuya Noguchi. Non-past directives in Japanese (lightning talk/poster)Posted on December 17, 2022
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Upcoming Events
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Feb
1
UCHI Fellow's Talk: Stefan Kaufmann3:30pm
UCHI Fellow's Talk: Stefan Kaufmann
Wednesday, February 1st, 2023
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Storrs Campus Humanities Institute Conference Room
Research talk by Stefan Kaufmann with response by Kareem Khalifa.
Register to attend virtually:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_O2BggnyFRoOVv7KFjwjYJwContact Information: uchi@uconn.edu
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Feb
3
Linguistics Colloquium: Colin Philips4:00pm
Linguistics Colloquium: Colin Philips
Friday, February 3rd, 2023
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Storrs Campus Oak hall
Linguistics Colloquium with Colin PhilipsContact Information: zixi.liu@uconn.edu
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Feb
3
Linguistics Colloquium: Colin Phillips (University of Maryland)4:00pm
Linguistics Colloquium: Colin Phillips (University of Maryland)
Friday, February 3rd, 2023
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Storrs Campus Oak Hall
"Arguments, Prediction, and Production”
At the start of the pandemic, when we were unable to use some of our favorite comprehension measures (e.g., EEG, eye-tracking), we turned to eliciting speech production online. This turned out to be both rewarding and surprising. First, recording what people say and when they say it works rather well via the internet. Second, the production measures reveal greater sensitivity than we had seen in parallel comprehension studies. Studies on argument role reversals, such as “This is the the waitress that the customer served” show a striking contrast. In EEG and eye-tracking studies, it is commonly found that the verb “served” is processed as if it is unsurprising in a reversal, despite the fact that it is anomalous. This had led us and others to conclude that comprehenders initially ignore argument roles when generating expectations for upcoming words. But in a speeded cloze paradigm, where speakers must complete fragments like “This is the waitress that the customer …” as fast as possible, their responses are overwhelmingly appropriate, even when timing is matched with comprehension studies. This indicates that when speakers self-generate continuations, they are highly sensitive to argument roles. We had assumed that these measures were tapping into the same underlying cognitive processes. The contrast between measures challenges that assumption. This puzzle has set us on an interesting path in which we combine computational modeling and many different experimental probes, to try to get to the bottom of where argument-role insensitivity comes from. This, in turn, pushes us to think more critically about prediction mechanisms in psycholinguistics, and about the relation between speaking and understanding. In a fun twist, it also led us to run studies on the floor of the new Planet Word Museum in Washington DC. This allowed us to test children and seniors. It forced us to make our experiments a LOT more user-friendly. And it taught us that if we do this, then researchers and participants alike have much more fun doing psycholinguistic research.Contact Information: chui_yi.lee@uconn.edu; zixi.liu@uconn.edu
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Feb
10
ECOM Speaker Series: Alison Springle4:00pm
ECOM Speaker Series: Alison Springle
Friday, February 10th, 2023
04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Storrs Campus FSB220
ECOM Speaker Series will host Alison Springle (Oklahoma University, Philosophy). The title of her talk is "Radicalizing Practical Representations." The event will be held in Family Studies 220, and will be broadcasted via Zoom. For details, contact aliyar.ozercan@uconn.eduContact Information: aliyar.ozercan@uconn.edu
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