Colloquia and Presentations 2002-2003

Links to previous years' colloquia: 98-99 ; 99-00 ; 00-01 ; 01-02



Thursday, December 12, 2002

Keith Hutchison
Cognitive Psychology Laboratory
Washington University, St. Louis

Semantic priming in the 21st century:
Using word associations to test theories of attention, language, and memory

Place: Walsh Conference Room ( Barnwell )
Time: 3:30 P.M.

Sponsored by the Psychology Department.

Click here to see an abstract

Monday, December 16, 2002

Michael Kaschak
Psychology Department
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Title: This Syntax Needs Learned:
Adult Acquisition of Novel Syntactic Patterns

Place: Walsh Conference Room ( Barnwell )
Time: 3:30 P.M.

Sponsored by the Psychology Department.

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Wednesday, January 15, 2003

Amit Almor
Department of Psychology and
Program in Neural, Informational, & Behavioral Sciences
University of Southern California

Title: Computation, Information, and Cost
in the Processing of Reference in Discourse

Place: Walsh Conference Room ( Barnwell )
Time: 3:30 P.M.

Sponsored by the Psychology Department.

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  Thursday, January 30, 2003

Chantal Tetreault ( c.v. )
Anthropology Department
University of Texas, Austin

What's in a Name?:
Parental Name-Calling among French Adolescents of Algerian Descent

Place: 318 Hamilton
Time: 3:30 p.m.

Sponsored by the Anthropology Department.

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Monday, February 3, 2003

John Alderete
Center for Cognitive Science
Rutgers University

Navigating the overlap between morphology and phonology:
Perspectives from Optimality Theory

Place: Gambrell 429
Time: 3:00 p.m.

Sponsored by the Department of English Language and Literature.

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Friday, February 7, 2003

Alan C. L. Yu
Department of Linguistics
McGill University

Rethinking the Phonology-Morphology Interface

Place: Gambrell 247
Time: 3:00 p.m.

Sponsored by the Department of English Language and Literature.

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Monday, February 10, 2003

Andrew Wedel
Department of Linguistics
University of California, Santa Cruz

Self-organization and the origin of higher-order phonological patterns

Place: Gambrell 247
Time: 3:00 p.m.

Sponsored by the Department of English Language and Literature.

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Tuesday, February 11, 2003

Adam Ussishkin
Department of Linguistics
University of Arizona

Constraining Abstractness in the Lexicon

Place: Gambrell 104
Time: 2:00 p.m.

Sponsored by the Department of English Language and Literature.

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Friday, February 21, 2003

Ernest Lepore
Philosophy Department and Center for Cognitive Science
Rutgers University

Context Shifting Arguments

Place: 201 Humanities Classroom Building
Time: 4:00 p.m.

Preception (tea and cookies) at 3:30 p.m.
in the Philosophy Reading Room (Humanities Office Building, 6th floor)

Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy.

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Thursday and Friday, February 27 and 28, 2003

Judith Kroll
Department of Psychology,
Program in Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
Pennsylvania State University

Judith Kroll will present two talks during her visit to the campus:

Developing Lexical Proficiency in a Second Language
on Thursday, February 27 at 2:00-3:15 p.m.
in 102 Humanities Classroom Building
Click here to see an abstract

Selecting the Language in Which to Speak:
A Psycholinguistic Approach to Bilingual Language Production
on Friday, February 28 at 12:15-1:15 p.m.
in Walsh Conference Room ( Barnwell )
Click here to see an abstract

Both events are sponsored by
the College of Liberal Arts, the Department of Psychology, and the Linguistics Program.


Friday, April 25, 2003

Carol Myers-Scotton
Linguistics Program and English Department
University of South Carolina

Supporting a Differential Access Hypothesis:
Codeswitching and Other Contact Data

Place: Humanities Classroom Building 202  
Time: 3:30 p.m.

Click here to see an abstract

Sponsored by the Linguistics Program.





last update: 03/05/03