27 May: Rebekah Baglini (UChicago)

Friday, May 27 @ 3pm, Karen Landahl Center for Linguistics Research “Modeling variation and change in radoppiamento sintattico“ Abstract: The external sandhi phenomenon of raddoppiamento sintattico (RS) in Italian has been a prominent topic in phonology for decades. While the existing theoretical literature treats RS as a regular phonological process, recent research has found that there is […]

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04 March: Lisa Pearl (UC Irvine)

Friday, March 04 @ 3 pm, Harper 148 Looking Beyond: What Indirect Evidence Can Tell Us About Universal Grammar Abstract: One of the most controversial claims in linguistics is that children learning their native language face an induction problem: the data in their input are insufficient to identify the correct language knowledge as rapidly as […]

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05 Nov: Sravana Reddy

SRAVANA REDDY (Computer Science, University of Chicago) Friday, November 5 @ 3:00pm, Karen Landahl Center Co-sponsored with the Workshop on Language, Computation and Cognition “Decoding the Voynich Manuscript” Abstract: The Voynich manuscript is a medieval illustrated folio written in an undeciphered script. I will present some results about the linguistic properties of the text.

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