Semantic Typology Lab @ University at Buffalo

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)

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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: 

1. Reading: Li P & Abarbanell L. (2018) Competing perspectives on frames of reference in language and thought. Cognition. 170:9-24.
2. 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: 

1. Stephanie QP Research Update

10 November:

1. Saima Urdu Causality Research Update
2. 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

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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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