Common Ground Seminar Spring 2008
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When: |
Wednesdays, 12–2
pm |
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Where: |
Large Conference
Room |
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Coordinators: |
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This
weekly research seminar is designed to provide an intellectual gathering for
students interested in the interdisciplinary study of language and
communication. It is our hope that this seminar will increase scholarly
interaction among students from different disciplines who are engaged in the
study of language and communication. Sessions
will alternate between what we call From-Within and From-Without
meetings. During a From-Within meeting, a student participant will be asked to
present his/her ongoing research to the group, providing an opportunity both
for the student to explain his/her work to informed non-experts and for the
rest of us to learn something about a related discipline. During From-Without
weeks, students will present and discuss selected readings by experts from
outside Penn, often something written by the speaker for that week's IRCS or
Brain and Language colloquium. This
journal club will expose students to research going on outside Penn, and prepare
us all for the colloquium in a way that is not normally possible. |
Schedule of Meetings
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Date |
Topic / |
Presenter |
Source |
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1/23 |
Organizational
meeting |
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1/30 |
Lingering
Misinterpretations in Language Comprehension |
Sarah Johnstone
Drucker |
From Within |
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2/6 |
Penn Discourse
Treebank (PDTB 2.0): A New Resource for Possible Use in Psycholinguistic Work Supplemental Material: The list of all "attributing phrases" in the PDTB corpus (there are far more attributing phrases than just the verbs of "saying") http://www.seas.upenn.edu/ The list of phrases
that behave as connectives; |
Aravind Joshi
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From Within |
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2/13 |
Animal Behavior Elephant Vocalizations (Shermin) Elephant
Vocalizations (early report) Social Position and Stress in
Primates (Maria) |
Shermin DeSilva
and Maria Rakhovskaya |
From Within |
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2/20 |
Prep for the Penn
Linguistics Colloquium |
Kyle Gorman |
From Without
(Linguistics) |
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2/27 |
On Dan Grodner |
David January |
From Without
(IRCS) |
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3/5 |
Processing
Intrusive [r] |
Annelie Tuinman |
From Within |
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3/19 |
On Arthur Samuel |
Sarah Johnstone
Drucker |
From Without (CCN) |
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3/26 |
Verb Learning |
Ann Bunger |
From Within |
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4/2 |
On Deb Roy |
John Trueswell |
From Without
(IRCS) |
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4/9 |
VOT and f0 |
Chandan Narayan and Kyle Gorman |
From Within |
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4/16 |
On Nick Chater |
Neville Ryant |
From Without
(IRCS) |
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4/23 |
Panel Discussion
on Categories |
Lila Gleitman, Barbara
Malt, Dan Swingley, Sharon Thompson-Schill, John Trueswell |
From Within |
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To volunteer to present or to suggest a
topic, contact Chandan. To submit materials to be posted to the
course website, contact Ann Bunger. To be added to the mailing list, contact David January.
This seminar is being held as part of the
Language and Communication Sciences IGERT grant from the National Science
Foundation to the |
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Language and Communication Sciences (LCS) / Last updated 4.14.08 |
