Colloquia Series

2007

December 4, 2007: Hannele Nicholson, Linguistics, Cornell University, Disfluencies in Dialogue: Attention, Structure and Function
September 25, 2007: Shravan Vasishth, Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Determinants of parsing complexity: A computational and empirical investigation
September 24, 2007: Susan Garnsey, Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Event-Related Optical Signal (Eros): A New Neuroimaging Tool for Language Processing Research
May 14, 2007: Lisa Pearl, Linguistics, University of Maryland
May 2, 2007: Michael Wagner, Linguistics, Cornell University, Encoding and Retrieving Syntax with Prosody
April 26, 2007: Frank Keller, HRC, University of Edinburgh, Probabilistic Models of Adaptation in Human Parsing
April 18, 2007: Roger Levy, Linguistics, UCSD, Expectations, locality, and competition in syntactic comprehension
April 12, 2007: Philip Hofmeister, Linguistics, Stanford University
April 6, 2007: Nick Cassimatis, Computer Science, RPI, A Cognitive Substrate for Human-Level Intelligence
February 21, 2007: Susanne Gahl, University of Chicago, Linguistic knowledge is probabilistic: Evidence from Pronunciation

2003-2004

November 3, 2003: Jenny Saffran, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin Madison, Statistical Learning: What Goes In, and What Comes Out.

2002-2003

May 28, 2003: John Kingston, Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, From Ears to Categories: Intermediate Steps in Speech Recognition.
May 5, 2003: Sheila Blumstein, Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University, The Mapping of Sound Structure to the Lexicon: Evidence from Normal Subjects and Aphasic patients.
March 19, 2003: Elsi Kaiser, Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, Interpreting and Anticipating Reference in Discourse.
March 17, 2003: Harlan Harris, Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, The Horror: Speech Errors and Phonological Production Models.
February 7, 2003: Craige Roberts, Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University, Relating Attention to Intention of Information Structure.
January 31, 2003: Craige Roberts, Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University, Presupposition: The Interaction of Conventional and Conversational Implicature.
January 28, 2003: Craige Roberts, Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University, Information Structure in Discourse: A Basic Pragmatic Framework.
September 25, 2002: Gary Marcus, Department of Psychology, New York University, Plasticity and Nativism: Towards a Resolution of an Apparent Paradox.

2001-2002

June 18, 2002: Mike Harm, Carnegie-Mellon University, How Do Readers Compute Word Meanings? Insights From the Triangle Model.
May 21, 2002: Tom Bever, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona, What Language Processing Tells Us About Cognitive Science.
May 20, 2002: Tom Bever, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona, American Landscape Painting: Aesthetics, The Golden Mean and Depth Perception.
April 29, 2002: Michael Tarr, Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University, It's Pat - Sexing Faces Using Only Red and Green.
April 22, 2002: Ash Asudeh, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University, Resourse Logic.
April 11, 2002: Matt Dye, Centre for Deaf Studies, University of Bristol, United Kingdom, To Sign or Not To Sign: Studies of Deaf Cognition in British Signers.
April 1, 2002: Gianluca Sorto, Department of Linguistics, University of California at Los Angeles, Possessives in Context.
March 28, 2002: Franklin Chang, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Symbolically Speaking.
March 25, 2002: Duane Watson, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Understanding Intonational Phrasing.
March 4, 2002: Jennifer Venditti, Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University, Another Look at Accented Pronouns: Evidence from Eye-tracking.
February 26, 2002: Todd Haskell, Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, The Role of Distributional Information in Speech Production: The Case of Subject-Verb Agreement.
January 26, 2002: Gary S. Dell, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Lexical Access and Serial Order in Language Production: A Test of Freuds Continuity Thesis.
November 7, 2001: Maryellen McDonald, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Constraint Satisfaction Processes in Language Production.
October 31, 2001: J. Kathryn Bock, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Clock Talk.

2000-2001

April 25, 2001: Paul Luce, Department of Psychology, State University of New York, Buffalo, Understanding Spoken Words: Activation, Competition and Temporary Memory in Spoken Word Perception.
April 2, 2001: Paul Smolensky, Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, Optimality in Linguistic Cognition.

1999-2000

April 25, 2000: Jennifer Arnold, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, He vs. She: The Use of Gender in On-line Pronoun Comprehension.
April 13, 2000: Michael Walsh Dickey, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University, The Processing of Temporal Relations in Discourse.
March 24, 2000: Jason Eisner, Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester, Doing OT in a Straitjacket.
March 1, 2000: Kenneth N. Wexler, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Very Early Parameter Setting in the Computational System of Language, Varriablity in Development Across Languages, Maturation versus Learning, Impaired Development, and the Potential for a Genetics of Language.
January 17, 2000: Kita Sotaro, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, What Gesture Can Tell Us About the Process of Verbalization of Spatial Information.
September 17, 1999: David Poeppel, Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland - College Park, Two Ideas About Timing in Hearing and Speech.

1998-1999

May 3, 1999: Bruce P. Hayes, Department of Linguistics, University of California at Los Angeles, Burnt and Splang: Some Issues in Morphological Learning Theory.
April 14, 1999: Carlota S. Smith, Department of Linguistics, University of Texas - Austin, The Navajo Prolongative and Lexical Structure.
March 7, 1999: Gert Webelhuth, Department of Linguistics, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Surface Cues for Pragmatic Inferences as Motivation for the Evolution of Surface Syntax.
February 25, 1999: John W. Moore, Department of Linguistics, University of California at San Diego, Judgment Types, Causatives, and S-Selection.
February 23, 1999: Harry van der Hulst, Department of Linguistics, Leiden University, Modality-free Phonology.
December 18, 1998: Bryan Gick, Haskins Laboratories, University of Connecticut, Articulatory Correlates of Ambisyllabicity in English Glides and Liquids.

1997-1998

September 19, 1997: Jason Stanley, Department of Philosophy, Cornell University, Necessity, A Priority, and What Is Said.

1996-1997

April 25, 1997: Sarah (Sally) Thomason, Program in Linguistics, University of Michigan, Contact-induced Language Change and Contact-language Genesis.
April 22, 1997: Ellen M. Kaisse, Department of Linguistics, University of Washington, Glides, Vowels, and Ghost Consonants in Argentinian Spanish.
March 28, 1997: Myrna Schwartz, Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, When a Dog is a Cat and a Rug is a Fug: Picture Naming Errors in Aphasic and Non-aphasic Speakers.
November 22, 1996: Barbara J. Grosz, Department of Computer Science, Harvard University, Modeling Collaboration for Human-computer Communication.
October 30, 1996: Peter W. Jusczyk, Department of Psychology, Johns Hopkins University, What Infants Remember About Utterances They Hear.
October 18, 1996: Zoltan Szabo, Department of Philosophy, Cornell University, The What and Why of Compositionality.
September 27, 1996: Graham Katz, Graduiertenkollegs Integriertes Linguistik-Studium, University of Tuebingen, States, Events, Time, Tense and Other Monsters.

1995-1996

April 26, 1996: Gary F. Marcus, Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, Symbols and Simple Recurrent Networks in Language and Cognition.
April 19, 1996: J. Kathryn Bock, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, Structural Repetition as Implicit Learning.
March 29, 1996: Dan Jurafsky, Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado - Boulder, A Probabilistic Model of Lexical and Syntactic Access and Disambiguation.
December 8, 1995: Jennifer Saul, Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield, The Problem with Attitudes.
November 17, 1995: Mark E. Richard, Department of Philosophy, Tufts University, Analysis, Synonymy, and Sense.
September 15, 1995: Yuki Kuroda, Department of Linguistics, University of California at San Diego, Theoretical Issues in Syntax.

1994-1995

May 26, 1995: Gary S. Dell, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, The Past, Present and Future in Language Production.
April 28, 1995: Tim Stowell, Department of Linguistics, University of California at Los Angeles, The Phrase Structure of Quantifier Scope.
April 12, 1995: David Dowty, Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University, Birds, Bees, and Semantic Theory.
March 3, 1995: Itziar Laka, Department of Linguistics, University of Rochester, Case in Human Grammar.
February 10, 1995: Peter Lasersohn, Department of Linguistics, University of Rochester, Verbal Plurality and Conjunction.
February 3, 1995: Kai von Fintel, Department of Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, A Minimal Theory of Adverbial Quantification.
December 16, 1994: Chris Barker, Department of Psychology, University of Rochester, Episodic -ee in English: An Argument That Thematic Relations Can Actively Constrain New Word Formation.
December 9, 1994: Kathy Eberhard, Department of Psychology, University of Rochester, The Marked Effect of Number on the Production of Subject-verb Agreement.
December 2, 1994: David Braun, Department of Philosophy, University of Rochester, The Many Meanings of Demonstratives.
November 4, 1994: Michael K. Tanenhaus, Department of Psychology, University of Rochester, Using Eye-movements to Study Spoken Language Comprehension in Visual Contexts.
October 25, 1994: Greg Carlson, Department of Linguistics, University of Rochester, What Are Thematic Roles?
October 21, 1994: James F. Allen, Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester, The TRAINS Project.
October 14, 1994: Elissa L. Newport, Department of Psychology, University of Rochester, Creolization and Some Thoughts About Learning.
September 30, 1994: Karen Petronio, Department of Psychology, University of Rochester Wh-Questions and Related Constructions in ASL.
September 23, 1994: Whitney Tabor, Department of Psychology, University of Rochester, Distributional Intimations of Grammatical Reclassification.