Colloquium Schedule

All Colloquia are held in
Room #134A, Krieger Hall
unless otherwise noted.

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Upcoming Colloquia:

Speaker	Affiliation	Date & Time	Title
Jenny Saffran	University of Wisconsin	Thursday April 17, 2008 3:45PM	When is infant language learning special, and when is it not?
Past Colloquia:
Vito Pirrelli	CNR Pisa	Thursday April 10, 2008 3:45PM	Two routes or one? A reappraisal of the psycho-computational debate on morphology learning
Eric Bakovic	University of California San Diego	Thursday March 27, 2008 3:45PM	What it means to be ‘sufficiently similar’: trajectory of a phonologically significant generalization
Jim Morgan	Brown University	Thursday March 13, 2008 3:45PM	The development of spoken word recognition
Jason Zevin	Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University	Thursday December 13, 2007 3:45PM	Learning and limits on adult plasticity for speech
Susan Goldin-Meadow	Department of Psychology, University of Chicago	Thursday November 15, 2007 3:45PM	Gesture's Role in Creating and Learning Language
Peter Vishton	Department of Psychology, College of William and Mary	Thursday November 8, 2007 3:45PM	Action Controls Perception Just As Perception Controls Action: Evidence from Infant and Adult Looking, Judging, Reaching, and Driving
Brendan Weekes	Department of Psychology, University of Sussex	Thursday October 25, 2007 3:45PM	How the language environment shapes brain function
Matt Goldrick	Department of Linguistics, Northwestern Univ	Thursday October 18, 2007 3:45PM	Mechanisms and Representations Underlying Interactive Effects in Speech Production
Karin Stromswold	Department of Psychology, Rutgers Univ	Thursday September 27, 2007 3:45PM	Genetics and the Structure, Acquisition and Evolution of Language
Andrew Nevins	Department of Linguistics, Harvard University	Thursday September 13, 2007 3:45PM	Vowel Harmony: Phonological limitations on a very general search procedure
Dr. Hilary Putnam	Harvard University Department of Philosophy	Wednesday May 2, 2007 3:30 PM Margenthaler 111	The Goedel Theorem and Human Nature
Alec Marantz	New York University Department of Linguistics	Thursday April 19, 2007 3:45PM	Morphology in the Decomposing Brain: Correlational Analyses of Single Trial MEG Data
Dr. Steven Gross	Johns Hopkins University Department of Philosophy	Thursday April 12, 2007 3:45PM	Contextualism and Shared Content
Dr. Peter Gordon	Department of Psychology University of North Carolina	Thursday April 5, 2007 3:45 PM	Understanding Complex Sentences: Memory Constraints and Information Structure
Dr. Rebecca Scarborough	Stanford University Department of Linguistics	Thursday March 22, 2007 3:45PM	Phonetics in the lexicon: What neighborhoods tell us about vowels and vice versa
Dr. Iris Berent	Florida Atlantic University Department of Psychology	Thursday March 8, 2007 3:45PM	What we know about what we have never heard: Evidence from perceptual illusions
Dr. John Desmond	Johns Hopkins University Department of Neurology	Thursday February 22, 2007 3:30 PM	Cerebellar Function in Verbal Working Memory
Dr. Joe Pater	University of Massachusetts	Thursday February 8, 2007 3:30 PM	The Power of Weighted Constraints
Dr. Emmanuel Dupoux	Laboratory of Cognitive Science and Psycholinguistics EHESS	Monday October 30, 2006 11:00 AM	TBA
Dr. Marc Hauser	Psychology, Organismic & Evolution and Biological Anthropology Harvard University	Thursday October 26, 2006 3:45 PM 110 Maryland Hall	The Moral Organ
Dr. Paul DeLacy	Linguistics Department Rutgers University	Thursday October 19, 2006 3:45 PM	Accounting for the asymmetries of human language: Competence Markedness vs. other markednesses
Dr. Chen Yu	Indiana University	Thursday October 5, 2006 3:30 PM	Multimodal Statistical Learning: Linking Words to World
Dr. Gary Marcus	Department of Psychology New York University	Tuesday April 25, 2006 3:00 PM	What is the Language Faculty Made Of? Evidence from Human Infants and Molecular Biology
Dr. Janet Pierrehumbert	Department of Linguistics Northwestern University	Thursday April 27, 2006 3:30 PM	Nearly merging psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics
Dr. Eric Wehrli	Dept of Linguistics Univ. of Geneva	March 31, 2006 3:30 PM	Multilingual parsing & terminology assistance
Dr. Matt Crocker	Dept. of Computational Linguistics & Phonetics Saarland University	Thursday March 16, 2006 3:30 PM 110 Maryland Hall	Adaptive Human Language Processing
Dr. Susan Carey	Department of Psychology Harvard University	Thursday March 2, 2006 3:30 PM	The Origins of Concepts
Dr. David Embick	Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania	Thursday February 16, 2006 3:30 PM	Combinatorics and Competition in Word/Phrase Interactions
Dr. Nora Newcombe	Psychology; Temple University Infant Lab at Ambler Temple University	Thursday December 8, 2005 3:30 PM	What do we mean when we say Modularity?
Dr. Jonathan Bobaljik	Linguistics University of Connecticut	Thursday November 10, 2005 3:30 PM	Agreement as a post-syntactic operation
Dr. Matthew M. Botvinick	Dept. of Psychiatry & Center for Cognitive Neuroscience University of Pennsylvania	Thursday October 27, 2005 3:30 PM	Short-term memory for serial order
Dr. Gail Mauner	Psychology/Linguistics SUNY Buffalo	Thursday October 6, 2005 3:30 PM	Syntactically active, inactive, and evoked implicit agents in pronoun and metonymy resolution
Dr. Delphine Dahan	Department of Psychology University of Pennsylvania	Thursday April 28, 2005 3:30 PM	The Integration of Phonetic Cues and Contextual Biases in Speech Comprehension
Dr. Arto Anttila	Department of Linguistics Stanford University	Thursday April 14, 2005 3:30 PM	UNIVERSALS OF VARIATION
Dr. Rajesh Bhatt	Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania	Thursday April 7, 2005 3:30 PM	Temporal Correlatives
Dr. Paul Bloom	Department of Psychology Yale University	Thursday March 31, 2005 3:30 PM	Bodies and Souls
Dr. David Poeppel	Department of Linguistics University of Maryland, College Park	Thursday March 3, 2005 3:30 PM	Fractionating speech in the time domain: psychophysical and neurobiological evidence
Dr. Thierry Nazzi	Laboratoire Cognition et De veloppement, CNRS and the Universite Rene -Descartes (Paris V)	Wednesday, January 5, 2005	Segmentation and Representation of Words by French-learning Infants
Dr. Raul Aranovich	University of California at Davis	Thursday December 2, 2004 3:30 PM	The Preservation of the Marked: Animacy and Arbitrary se in Romance and Slavic
Dr. Emmanuel Dupoux	Laboratoire de Science Cognitive et Psycholinguistique Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences in Sociales in Paris	Thursday November 4, 2004 3:30 PM	Plasticity and Non-Plasticity in Second Language Acquisition
Dr. Lila Gleitman	Department of Psychology University of Pennsylvania	Thursday October 28, 2004 3:30 PM	HARD WORDS
Dr. Jeffrey Lidz	Department of Linguistics Northwestern University	Thursday October 14, 2004 3:30 PM	Complex Predicates and the Semantic Basis of Syntactic Locality
Dr. Zenzi M. Griffin	Department of Psychology Georgia Institute of Technology	Thursday September 30, 2004 3:30 PM	How Speakers' Eye Movements Reflect Spoken Language Generation
Dr. Marie-Josephe Tainturier	School of Psychology University of Bangor	Thursday September 23, 2004 3:30 PM	The acquisition of past-tense spelling in English: Rules or rote?
Dr. Henriëtte de Swart	UiL-OTS/Utrecht University	Thursday April 8, 2004 3:45 PM	Explorations in bi-directional Optimality Theory: the issue of negation
Dr. David Corina	Department of Psychology University of Washington	Thursday April 1, 2004 3:45 PM	Towards a Neurocognitive Model of Human Language Processing: Data from Studies of American Sign Language.
Dr. Bencie Woll & Harry Sieretazki	Department of Language & Communication Science - City University, Northampton Square, London	Thursday Feb 12, 2004 4:00 PM	Neurolinguistics and the Atypical Acquisition of Signed & Spoken Language
Dr. Andy Ellis	Department of Psychology - The University of York	Thursday Feb 5, 2004 3:45 PM	Age of Acquisition: Linking Development to Adult Processing to neuropsychological impairment
Dr. David Gow	Salem State College and Massachusetts General Hospital	Thursday Dec 4, 2003 3:30 PM	Place Assimilation and the Temporal Integration of Speech
Dr. John Alderete	Department of English, Linguistics Program University of South Carolina	Thursday Nov 20, 2003 3:30 PM	Navigating the overlap between phonology and morphology: Perspectives from Optimality Theory
Dr. Barbara Partee & Dr. Vladimir Borschev	University of Massachusetts & VINITI/Russian Academy of Sciences	Thursday Oct 23 2003 3:30 PM	The Semantics of Russian Genitive of Negation: the Nature and Role of Perspectival Structure
Dr. Judy Shepard-Kegl	Linguistics Department, University of Southern Maine	Thursday Oct 16, 2003 3:30 PM	Language Predispositions that Persist Beyond Critical Periods for Language Acquisition
Dr. Ed Connor	The Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, The Johns Hopkins University	Thursday Oct 9, 2003 3:30 PM	Shape Processing in Ventral Pathway Visual Cortex
Dr. Martin Nowak	Institute for Advanced Study	Thursday, April 10, 2003, 3:30 PM	Computational and Evolutionary Aspects of Language
Dr. Colin Wilson	Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics UCLA	Thursday, April 3, 2003, 3:30 PM	Experimental phonology and phonological naturalness
Dr. Helene Intraub	Professor, Psychology Department, University of Delaware	03/27/2003 03:30 PM	Anticipatory Representation of Natural Scenes
Dr. Letitia Naigles	Associate Professor, Psychology Department University of Connecticut	03:30 PM Mar-20-2003	Form is Easy, Meaning is Hard: Resolving a Paradox in Early Child Language
Dr. Yan Huang	School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies University of Reading/UK	03:30 PM Feb-13-2003	Anaphora, Generative Grammar, and Formal Pragmatics
Dr. Richard L. Lewis	Associate Professor Department of Psychology, Linguistics, and EE & Computer Science University of Michigan	03:30 PM Feb-06-2003	Sentence Processsing as Memory Retrieval
Dr. Diamandis Gafos	New York University	03:45 PM Nov-14-2002	Self-organization and adaptation in an integrated phonetics-phonology
Dr. Linda Smith	Indiana University	03:45 PM Oct-31-2002	On the Origins of the Perceived Sameness in Shape
Dr. Bryan Gick	University of British Columbia	03:45 PM Oct-10-2002	Why liquids are hard to pronounce: The development of tongue motor differentiation.
Dr. Jason Eisner	Johns Hopkins University	03:45 PM Sep-26-2002	Doing OT in a Straitjacket