Fall 2018 – Wednesdays 2-3:20pm, Baldy 603
29 August – First meeting for Fall 2018
5 September – Juergen ICSC Dry run, Erika on Embodied Construction Grammar
12 September – NO LAB (Juergen away)
19 September – NO LAB (CogSci event)
21 September (Friday @ 3.30pm) – Ali & Juergen field reports
26 September – Juergen UBC colloquium dry run (Counterfactuals in Yucatec)
3 October – Monique Flecken lab-fest: event representation in language and cognition (Presentations by Juergen, Erika, and Ali)
10 October – Juergen: “Inside the macro-event property”
19 October (Friday @ 3:30pm)- Presentations of 4 papers on whether iconicity effects in grammar can be reduced to frequency-based iconicity. Presentations are given by Ali, Anastasia, Erika, and Juergen
24 October – Stephanie’s AMPRA dry run, Juergen on “iconicity in Yucatec causatives: frequency vs. complexity”
31 October – No lab this week
7 November – Dr. David Braun’s presentation of his paper: “Questions are not Answers”
14 November (Friday at 3:30pm) – Yu Li: “degree expressions in Zauzou”
21 November (THANKSGIVING, NO MEETING)
30 November – 1. Anastasia (Field work report), 2. Juergen (discussion of advising models)
5 December – 1. Juergen & Erika: Talmy’s Windowing of Attention chapter, 2. Kate: LSA dry run
14 December – 1. Juergen : motion macro-event property (Practice run), 2. Saima: Proposal brainstorming
Potential topics:
- Stephanie dissertation proposal brainstorming
- Majid lab-fest, von Stutterheim lab-fest,
- Juergen on Event Semantics for RRG,
- field report (Anastasia),
- dissertation proposal brainstorming (Saima),
- dissertation updates (Ali, Anastasia, Erika),
- Erika on Frame Semantics, coherence and event representations
- more on Bayesian regression analysis (Kruschke 2015)
- professionalism topics
- Erin research
- Philosophy of Language appreciation day
Spring 2018 – Thursdays 1-2:20pm, Baldy 617
1 February: First meeting for Spring 2018
8 February:
- Kruschke: Doing Bayesian Data Analysis. Review of material covered last semester.
- The conquest of manipulable space: The case for a pan-simian geocentrism bias. (Juergen Bohnemeyer)
15 February: Kruschke: Doing Bayesian Data Analysis.
22 February: Regierfest: Terry Regier lab update
- Joe: Yang Xu, Terry Regier, and Barbara C. Malt (2016). Historical semantic chaining and efficient communication: The case of container names. Cognitive Science, 40, 2081-2094.
- Juergen: Terry Regier, Naveen Khetarpal, and Asifa Majid (2013). Inferring semantic maps. Linguistic Typology, 17, 89-105. [Preprint] [Supplementary material]
- Erika: Terry Regier and Yang Xu (2017). The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and inference under uncertainty. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, e1440. [Preprint]
1 March: CAL Language and Cognition update: new datasets, possible incorporation of linguistic predictors & sociocentrism survey
8 March: Spatial reference frames
9 March (Friday 2-3pm, 617 Baldy): Prospective student weekend – Speed Dating!
15 March: The history of linguistics: the jet perspective (Juergen)
22 March: Spring Break, no meeting
29 March: Erika dissertation proposal
5 April: Stephanie dissertation brainstorming
12 April: Anastasia dissertation update
19 April: Ali dissertation proposal workshopping
26 April: Myth-busting semantics for typologists – brainstorming (Juergen)
3 May: “Temporal remoteness markers in a tenseless language” SULA dry-run (Juergen)
10 May: Narrative relative clauses (brainstorming)
Fall 2017 – Fridays 2-3:20pm, Baldy 617
8 September: Doing Bayesian Data Analysis (Kruschke, 2015): Chapters 2, 4, 5
15 September:
1. Dry run: Juergen “Causality Across Languages: State of the Art”
2. Reading: Doran, R., Ward, G., Larson, M., McNabb, Y., & Baker, R. E. (2012). A novel experimental paradigm for distinguishing between what is said and what is implicated. Language, 88(1), 124–154.
(22, 29 September, 6 October: No lab)
13 October:
- Reading: Li P & Abarbanell L. (2018) Competing perspectives on frames of reference in language and thought. Cognition. 170:9-24.
- Doing Bayesian Data Analysis (Kruschke, 2015): Chapter 5
20 October: Saima Hafeez: QP Update
27 October: Doing Bayesian Data Analysis (Kruschke, 2015): Chapters 6 & 7
3 November:
- Stephanie QP Research Update
10 November:
- Saima Urdu Causality Research Update
- Doing Bayesian Data Analysis (Kruschke, 2015): Chapter 15
17 November: Dry run spectacular! Randi (AAA); Erika (ALT); Juergen (ALT)
1 December: Language Evolution/Complex Adaptive Systems
Spring 2017 – Tuesdays, 4-5:20 pm, Baldy 617
April 4Data talk: Ali
| January 31 | First meeting! |
| February 7 | Future in tenseless languages: Juergen Bohnemeyer |
| February 14 12:30-2:00 | Space Robots in love |
| February 21 | Data talk: Saima |
| February 28 | Data talk: Erika |
| March 7 | Data talk: Kate |
| March 10 2:00-3:30 | *Friday* Speed dating |
| March 14 | **SNOW DAY** Data talk: Holly |
| March 21 | Spring Break |
| March 28 | AAG Dryrun: Randi Moore (and Holly Data) |
| March 31 12:30-2:00 | Special cross-pollination: SemTyp and SynSem combined for future time reference |
| April 4 | Ali Alshehri |
| April 11 | Discussion: Li & Abarbanell in response to Haun 2006 |
| April 18 | BTLI Dryrun: Randi Moore |
| April 25 | QP Dryrun: Stephanie |
| May 2 | Event description with LSTM-RNNs |
| May 9 | IPrA Dryrun: Erika |
Other topics of interest:
Data discussions: Ali, Erika, Holly, Kate, Saima
Robot direction paper: Michael Spranger “The evolution of grounded spatial language”
Stats paper: Eager & Roy (2017) “Mixed effects models are sometimes terrible”
Iconicity LSA
Selected Papers to discuss:
Lupyan, G. & R. Dale (2010), Language structure is partly determined by social structure. PLOSone http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0008559
Li, P. & L. Abarbanell (submitted), Alternative spin on phylogenetically inherited spatial reference frames. http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/peggyli/files/liabarbanell_cups.pdf
Li, P. & L. Abarbanell (submitted), Competing Perspectives: Frames of Reference in Language and Thought. http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/peggyli/files/liabarbanellanimals.pdf
New papers from Terry Regier’s webpage:
Emily Cibelli, Yang Xu, Joseph L. Austerweil, Thomas L. Griffiths, and Terry Regier (2016). The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and probabilistic inference: Evidence from the domain of color. PLOS ONE 11(7): e0158725. [Preprint]
Terry Regier, Alexandra Carstensen, and Charles Kemp (2016). Languages support efficient communication about the environment: Words for snow revisited. PLOS ONE 11(4): e0151138.
Yang Xu, Terry Regier, and Barbara C. Malt (2016). Historical semantic chaining and efficient communication: The case of container names. Cognitive Science, 40, 2081-2094. [Supplementary material]
Terry Regier, Charles Kemp, and Paul Kay (2015). Word meanings across languages support efficient communication. In B. MacWhinney & W. O’Grady (Eds.), The handbook of language emergence (pp. 237-263). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
Terry Regier, Naveen Khetarpal, and Asifa Majid (2013). Inferring semantic maps. Linguistic Typology, 17, 89-105. [Preprint] [Supplementary material]
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