Lab Meetings
Lab meetings will be held in the Linguistics Conference Room. In Spring 2012, lab meetings will be held on Wednesdays 1-2pm. Please see below for exact dates. There will also be a special talk series on Language Acquisition this spring, see below for details.
Spring 2012 lab meeting schedule
(special time)
Tue Jan 3 |
Practice talks for the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting:
Arunima Choudhury: Prosodic focus in Bangla: A psycholinguistic investigation of production and perception
Iris Chuoying Ouyang: Focus-marking in a tone language: Prosodic cues in Mandarin Chinese
Ed Holsinger: An eye-tracking investigation of contextual bias on idiom processing
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| Wed Jan 15 |
Organizational meeting, discussion of abstract writing |
(bonus talk)
Tue Feb 14 |
Ellen Bialystok (York University, Canada): Reshaping the Mind: The Benefits of Bilingualism
NOTE: Talk starts at 10 am, takes place in EEB248 |
| Wed Feb 15 |
Elsi Kaiser: Exploring the Lexical and Acoustic Consequences of Referential Predictability |
| Wed Feb 29 |
David Li: Investigating effects of speech rate and gestural representations on the perception of coronal place assimilation |
| Wed March 7 |
Emily Fedele: Reference resolution in Romance: Interpretation of null and overt pronouns in Italian |
| Wed March 21 |
Grace Livingstone: Pronoun interpretation after speech errors: Dealing with imperfect input |
| Wed March 28 |
Xin Zhao: How different levels of syntactic flexibility influence language production in Mandarin Chinese |
| Wed April 4 |
Hao Wang: On the acquisition of functional categories |
| Wed April 18 |
Xiao He: Title TBA |
Possible additional meetings still to be scheduled for Spring 2012.
"Language Acquisition" Talk series (hosted by the Psychology Dept)
2/22 Wed 12-2pm Scott Johnson (UCLA):
A neoconstructivist view of infant object perception,
KAP 141
4/5 Thu 12-2pm Sarah Creel (UCSD):
Who hears a Who? Recognizing talkers and processing language across
development, SGM 414
4/19 Thu 12-2pm David Moore (Pitzer College):
Mental Rotation of 3D objects in early infancy, VKC 258
Please contact Hao Wang for details (billhao AT gmail DOT com). All events are held at 12 – 2pm with one hour of talk and one hour of student discussion. Food and drink will be provided.
Spring 2011 lab meeting schedule
| Wed Jan 19 |
Mary Byram: Focus and set type in a lexical decision task |
| Wed Feb 2 |
Lucy Kim:
The interpretation of the Korean topic marker –(n)un in discourse continuation |
| Wed Feb 16 |
Chuo-Ying Ou-Yang: Prosodic Cues for Information Types in Mandarin |
| Wed March 9 |
Ellen O'Connor: Failing to miss negation in grammatical illusions |
| Wed March 30 |
Stephanie Yu-chi Huang: Semantic flexibility in message formulation during online production (CLS practice talk)
Post-CUNY poster discussion |
| Wed April 6 |
Priyanka Biswas:
On reference resolution of distal demonstratives and anaphoric pronouns in Bangla |
| Wed April 13 |
[no lab meeting] |
| Wed April 20 |
Sofiana Chiriacescu:
Stability of reference, discourse prominence and pe-marking in Romanian |
| Wed April 27 |
Elsi Kaiser: Effects of discourse structure on the comprehension and production of referring expressions |
Fall 2010 lab meeting schedule
| Tue Aug 31 |
organizational meeting, welcome back! |
| Tue Sept 14 |
Lucy Kim: Korean L2 speakers' phonological representation of the English /l/-/r/ contrast (practice talk for J/K) |
| Tue Sept 28 |
Yin Bin: Chinese Speakers’ Acquisition of Telicity in English (practice talk for SLRF) |
| Tue Oct 12 |
Stephanie Yu-chi Huang:
Flexibility in language production |
| Tue Oct 19 |
Xiao He: Person-feature based blocking
and the Chinese reflexive ziji (practice talk for MLS) |
| Tue Oct 26 |
Ed Holsinger: Seeing the forest and the trees: an eye-tracking investigation of the time-course of idiom activation in biased and unbiased contexts |
| Tue Nov 9 |
David Li: Spoken word recognition and rate: An investigation of lexical access with insights from Articulatory Phonology |
| Tue Nov 16 |
Heui-Joo Jeoung: Processing of word order in Korean |
| Tue Nov 23 |
Arunima Choudhury: Perception of Focus Types: New-information Focus vs. Contrastive Focus in Bangla |
| Tue Nov 30 |
Canan Ipek: Phonetic realization of focus in Turkish |
Joint meeting with Syntax+ on Monday Sept 27, 3pm: Practice talks for RALFe 2010 by Katy McKinney-Bock (Eyeing the syntax-semantics interface: Investigating differences between dimension and color adjectives) and Ellen O'Connor Mohun ( A Clausal Analysis of Dari and Tajik Phrasal Comparatives)
To be scheduled: Eyetracking python script demo by Ed Holsinger
Spring 2010 lab meeting schedule
Wed Jan 20
(3:30-4:30pm) |
Organizational meeting, welcome back! |
Mon Feb 1
(10:30-11:30am) |
Mary Byram
The Effect of Length and Focus on the English Dative Alternation: In need of some second opinions. |
Wed Feb 17
(3:30-4:30pm) |
Susan Geffen
Can infants discriminate between declaratives and questions using prosodic cues? |
Mon March 1
(10:30-11:30am) |
Sam Tilsen
Biasing the resolution of semantic ambiguity with transcranial magnetic stimulation of primary motor cortex |
Wed March 24
(3:30-4:30pm) |
Barbara Tomaszewicz
The Processing of Majority Quantifiers |
Mon March 29
(10:30-11:30am) |
Hao Wang
Frequent frames in languages with rich morphology: analyses of German and Turkish |
Wed April 14
(3:30-4:30pm) |
Stephanie Huang
Ba or Bei: Factors that affect Mandarin Speakers' choice of sentence type during language production |
Mon April 26
(10:30-11:30am) |
Yin Bin
Chinese Speakers' Interpretation of Telicity in English |
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