Linguistics Lectures

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The Department of Linguistics offers a series of lectures about the study of language and linguistics, in which a variety of internationally known scholars are invited to participate. These talks, which are open to the entire university community, feature in-depth discussion and state of the art an…

Department of Linguistics


    • Mar 22, 2013 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 165 EPISODES


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    Bodo Winter: Categorical Speech Perception is not that Categorical

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2013 55:14


    2/15/2013 Linguistic Colloquium, Bodo Winter (Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences, University of California, Merced)

    Exploring Variability in Speech Production and Morphological Interactions

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2013 54:51


    Computational Explorations into Bilingual Vowel Acquisition

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2013 21:22


    Accent Patterns of Non-English Loanwords in Japanese

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2013 20:52


    A Tripartite Model of Human Word Prediction

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2013 23:50


    LouAnn Gerken, October 26 2012

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2012 37:34


    ALC Keynote: Experimenting with Treebanks

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2012 58:38


    Emergent Phonology: Evidence from English

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2012 53:17


    Incorporation and the syntax of argument structure

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2012 49:39


    Sentence Planning in Little Talkers

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2012 51:48


    The problem we address is sentence planning in 3-8 year-olds and adults. We measure planning via patterns of non-fluency in studies with and without modeling. Participants in the study without modeling observed stories and then directed a blindfolded experimenter to pick up one of two identical toys in each story. Participants in the imitation study repeated a puppet?s request for a toy after each story. Both studies tested the same four types of relative clauses (varying gap position and depth of embedding). We analyzed time to utterance onset; frequency, duration, and distribution of filled and unfilled pauses; and use of optional functional elements. There were reliable effects of structural complexity on non-fluency patterns in both experiments, with some informative shifts across methods. For example, unfilled pauses distributed similarly across age groups, structures, and methods. But filled pauses (primarily, um) differed. In the elicited production study, adults preferred filled pauses before utterance onset; children also used them in the locations preferred for unfilled pauses. In the imitation study, the incidence of filled pauses sharply declined: Adults and older children produced almost none; young children?s pattern was more similar to that of the elicited production study.

    Elena Guerzoni (Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2012 60:13


    Causative Iteration: Recursion, Reduplication, or Multiple Exponence? The Case of Turkish

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2012 40:09


    Causative Iteration: Recursion, Reduplication, or Multiple Exponence? The Case of Turkish

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2012 40:11


    Colloquium given April 27, 2012

    Sentence Planning in Little Talkers

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2012 52:07


    Elena Guerzoni (Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2012 60:13


    Where do Grammars Come From?

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2012 71:26


    The origins of the low focus position

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2012 69:26


    Colloquium given April 6, 2012

    Superlative movement out of nominal phrases and focus intervention effects Joint work with Barbara Tomaszewicz, USC

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2012 45:13


    Audio-only recording of colloquium presented March 30, 2012

    'I' Before 'E' in Semantics

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2012 51:56


    Colloquium presented jointly with Department of Philosophy, March 23, 2012

    Superlative movement out of nominal phrases and focus intervention effects Joint work with Barbara Tomaszewicz, USC

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2012 45:01


    The preservation, translation and transcription of Hiaki (Yaqui): narratives of persecution, displacement and resistance

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2012 62:26


    The preservation, translation and transcription of Hiaki (Yaqui): narratives of persecution, displacement and resistance

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2012 57:44


    Lexical representation of printed words: Language specific or structure specific?

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2012 42:02


    How many 'normal' neurological organizations for language and cognition are there? At least two.

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 29, 2012


    Thomas Bever speaks about "Investigations of familial handedness, behavior, and the brain" at the University of Arizona Department of Linguistics Colloquium Series.

    How many 'normal' neurological organizations for language and cognition are there? At least two.

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2012 62:59


    A Basic Introduction to Chomsky's Linguistics

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2012 95:22


    Presentations given on February 2, 2012.

    What is Special About Language?

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2012 105:30


    Noam Chomsky, a world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist lectured at the University of Arizona on Feb. 7, 2012, on "What is Special About Language?" Noam Chomsky is an Institute Professor and a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked for more than 50 years. Chomsky, who according to The New York Times is “arguably the most important intellectual alive,” is credited with revolutionizing the field of linguistics by introducing generative grammar and the concept of a universal grammar, which underlies all human language and is based in the innate structure of language. Beyond linguistics, his work has influenced fields such as cognitive science, philosophy, computer science, mathematics, and psychology. Noam Chomsky has received numerous awards, including the Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences, the Helmholtz Medal, the Dorothy Eldridge Peacemaker Award, and the Ben Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science. Since the 1960s, Chomsky has been an influential social analyst and critic. He has published numerous books on U.S. foreign and domestic policies, international politics, the media and related subjects. His writings are among the most quoted in today's world.

    Steps towards the physics of language

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2012 45:56


    February 10, 2012

    Which Comes First, the Stop or the Spirant? A Quasi-Longitudinal Study of Bilingual Children

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2012 54:31


    Syntactic (in)variation in young children’s comprehension of A-movement

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2012 75:29


    Twin Reflexives

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2012 61:46


    January 20, 2012

    The role of language in structure dependent thought

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2012 58:01


    The diachrony of pronouns and demonstratives: Feature economy meets Old Norse

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2011 38:35


    De Re and De Se: Linguistic and Conceptual Parameters

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2011 59:32


    Al-Sayyid: A language blooms in the desert.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2011 66:12


    Types of information in ambiguous casual speech: 'He was like' or 'He's like'?

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2011 61:09


    A Movement Theory of Pronominal Binding

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2011 67:47


    Spell-Out, Movement, and the Copy Theory

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2011 54:40


    Regularity as a continuum: Why 'irregular' doesn't have to be the opposite of 'regular'

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2011 69:10


    Brain Optimization and Biological Satisficing

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2011 66:54


    Leibniz's Problem, Frege's Puzzle

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2011 63:43


    Morphological Conspirators: morpho-syntax and the apparent event-structure differences across forms of nominalization

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2011 49:11


    On the generative capacity of natural languages: human and non-human

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2011 53:07


    Where do linguistic universals come from?

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2011 62:48


    Generalized Contiguity

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2011 43:21


    Some Effects of Dialect Variation on Lexical Processing

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2011 58:03


    The anatomy of the language network: Insights from neurodegenerative aphasias

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2011 55:07


    The relation between codas and onset clusters

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2011 61:18


    Tracking Tip-of-the-Tongue States in a Multilingual Speaker: Evidence of Attrition or Instability in Lexical Systems?

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2011 50:11


    Exploring ERP Effects of Metaphor via Crowdsourcing

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2011 33:04


    Factors that influence word learning in bilingual children

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2010 46:16


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