Colloquium

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School of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Science Studies Thursday Interdisciplinary Colloquium Webb 103/Online lecture Spring 2023
16.3	Ezer Rasin (joint work with Alma Frischoff) Tel Aviv University	Canceled; On the absence of crucially-simultaneous phonological interactions in natural language
23.3	Alex Grosu Tel Aviv University	Canceled; A Fresh look at transparent free relatives; read more; handout
30.3	Shirly Orr Tel Aviv University	Scales and Inferences; read more
20.4	Keny Chatain Institut Jean Nicod	Reducing Pronoun Accessibility To Presupposition Satisfaction; read more
27.4	Georgios Vardakis University of Padua and Tel Aviv University
4.5	Andrea Beltram Upenn
11.5	Gillian Ramchand University of Tromsø
18.5	Galit Agmon Upenn
8.6	Nofar Rimon Tel Aviv University
15.6	Eyal Marco Tel Aviv University
22.6	Mats Rooth Cornell University
29.6	Alma Frischoff Tel Aviv University

School of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Science Studies Thursday Interdisciplinary Colloquium Webb 103/Online lecture Fall 2022
27.10		Meeting: Graduate Students
3.11	Idan Keissar Tel Aviv University	Gender agreement attraction in Hebrew comprehension; read more
10.11	Milica Denić Tel Aviv University	Languages optimize the trade-off between lexicon size and average utterance length: A case study of numeral systems; read more
17.11	Chris Tancredi Keio University	The syntax and semantics of Japanese internally- and doubly-headed relatives (joint work with Alex Grosu and Koji Hoshi) read more; handout; slides
24.11	Paloma Jeretič ZAS, Berlin	Force and flavor of derived modals: Lessons from an existential construction in Ecuadorian Siona; read more
1.12	Athulya Aravind MIT	Alternatives in word learning; read more
8.12	Kenyon Branan Universität Göttingen	Situational Transparency; read more; handout;
15.12	Malka Rappaport-Hovav The Hebrew University, Jerusalem	Variable agentivity: between polysemy and underspecification; read more
22.12	Adam McCollum Rutgers	Input- and output-oriented generalizations in Iny ATR harmony; read more
29.12	Bruno Nicenboim Tilburg University	Revising the linking hypothesis between reading times and processing difficulty using a computational model of reading; read more
5.1	Moshe Bar-Lev and Roni Katzir Tel Aviv University	Positivity, (anti-)exhaustivity and stability; read more
12.1	Mandy Cartner Tel Aviv University
19.1	Naama Gidron Tel Aviv University

School of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Science Studies Thursday Interdisciplinary Colloquium Webb 103/Online lecture Spring 2022
3.3	Roey Gafter Ben-Gurion University of the Negev	The misrepresentation of pharyngeals in parodic imitations of Mizrahi Hebrew Speakers; read more
10.3	Laura Kalin Princeton University	On the (non-)transparency of infixes that surface at a morpheme juncture; read more; handout
24.3	Colin Davis University of Konstanz	On parasitic gaps, anti-locality, and the distribution of subject movement; read more; handout
31.3	Enoch O. Aboh University of Amsterdam	A constrained syntax in a creative mind; read more; handout
7.4	Nitzan Trainin Tel Aviv University	Learning to associate a specific speaker with their specific ‘style’; read more
28.4	Adi Behar Medrano Tel Aviv University	The Relevance of Cost to the Computation of Inferences; read more; handout
12.5	Ola Watad Tel Aviv University	The Acquisition of Word Initial Consonant Clusters in Jatt Arabic; read more
19.5	Niki Koesterich Tel Aviv University	Early resumptive pronouns in Hebrew: Acceptability and production preferences; read more
26.5	Elinoar Ganani Tel Aviv University	Phonological Reduction as a Marker for Modalization in Verbs in Israeli Hebrew; read more

School of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Science StudiesS Thursday Interdisciplinary Colloquium Webb 103/Online lecture Fall 2021-Winter 2022
14.10		Graduate students meeting
21.10	Alona Golubchik Tel Aviv University	Three Men Walk into A Bar: Quantifying Phonological Distance Between Languages; read more
28.10	Chris Tancredi Keio Univeristy	A One-world I-semantics for Belief Attribution; read more
4.11	Renate Raffelsiefen Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache	Patterns in affixation: narrow phonological causes and wide-ranging effects; read more
11.11	Ziv Plotnik-Peleg Tel Aviv University	The Relevance of Unaccusativity to Possessive Datives; read more
18.11	Nicholas Rolle ZAS	Dominant grammatical tone at the syntax/phonology interface; read more
25.11	Elizabeth Ritter University of Calgary	Pronouns and Paranouns: A new pronominal typology; read more
2.12	Brian Dillon University of Massachusetts	Grammatical constraints on reference: The view from comprehension; read more
9.12	Ittamar Erb Tel Aviv University	From synchrony to diachrony and back: the case of pronominal possessives in Hebrew; read more
16.12	Aviv Schoenfeld Tel Aviv University	Bare NPs and the kind-instance ambiguity; read more
23.12	Menahem Yeari Bar Ilan University	Deficits of poor comprehenders during reading comprehension: Evidence from online studies; read more
30.12	Maayan Jonat Tel Aviv University	Generalized and ad-hoc scalar implicatures: methodological considerations and insights from ASD; read more
6.1	Noa Brandel The Hebrew University	The Long-Term Effect of Explicit Positive Evidence: Hebrew Speakers Unlearning Resumptive Pronouns in L2 English; read more

Colloquia of Previous Semesters

School of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Science Studies Thursday Interdisciplinary Colloquium Spring 2021
4.3	Amir Anvari IJN, École Normale Supérieure, Paris	Type-driven local contexts; read more
11.3	Imola-Ágnes Farkas Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj	Aspectual cognate object constructions in Hungarian; read more
18.3	Moshe Elyashiv Bar-Lev Hebrew University	An implicature account of Homogeneity and Non-maximality; read more
8.4	Yasutada Sudo University College London	What primes what? Experimental framework to explore alternatives for SIs; read more
22.4	Aviv Schoenfeld Tel Aviv University	Inclusion in the subkind relation; read more
29.4	Udi Wahrsager Tel Aviv University	Rhythmic similarities between language and music: Jazz and bluegrass musicians as a case study; read more
6.5	Gyӧrgy Rákosi University of Debrecen	Reciprocals vs plural reflexives: A singular difference; read more
13.5	Richard Stockwell Oxford University	Contrast and Verb Phrase Ellipsis: Triviality, Symmetry, and Competition; read more
20.5	Jane Chandlee Haverford College	Formalizing Iterativity and the Computation of Rule Application Modes; read more
3.6	Stav Klein Tel Aviv University	Like Father, Like Son, Like Father: Investigating Developmental Stages in Child-Directed Speech; read more
10.6	Shaul Ashkenazi Tel Aviv University	Recovery Strategies in Dialogue with Senior Adults; read more; The lecture will begin at 15:50.
17.6	Daphna Heller University of toronto	TBA

School of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Science Studies Thursday Interdisciplinary Colloquium Fall 2020-Winter 2021
22.10	Aya Meltzer-Asscher, Julia Horvath, Tal Siloni Tel Aviv University	Graduate students meeting; invitation
29.10	Omer Preminger University of Maryland	Waving goodbye to Ferdinand: natural language is not composed of Saussurean signs; read more
5.11	Hedde Zeijlstra University of Goettingen	v; read more; see handout
12.11	Daniella Yariv Tel Aviv University	The Markedness over Faithfulness Bias: Coda moraicity in the early acquisition of Hebrew; read more
19.11	Lior Laks Bar Ilan University	How do penguins differ from kangaroos? Vowel 'dropability' in the pluralization of vowel ending loanwords in Hebrew; read more
26.11	Michael Becker University of Massachusetts, Amherst	The incoherent stress of Kuikuro; read more
3.12	Uriel Cohen Priva Brown University	Understanding lenition through its causal structure; read more
17.12	Radek Šimík Charles University, Prague	How to derive a relative pronoun from an interrogative one; read more
24.12	Itamar Shefi Tel Aviv University	Evolution of Phonological Typology: an Iterated Learning Model of the Emergence of Phonological Patterns; read more
31.12	Tal Tehan Tel Aviv University	Neuroimaging of scalar implicatures: task differences and individual differences; read more
7.1	Omri Amiraz Hebrew University	A diachronic explanation for cross-linguistic variation in the use of inverse-scope constructions; read more
14.1	Suzi Lima University of Toronto	Counting in Brazilian Indigenous Languages; read more

School of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Science Studies Thursday Interdisciplinary Colloquium Winter 2020-Spring 2020
12.3	Naomi Havron École Normale Supérieure, Paris	Prediction as a Key Mechanism in Language Acquisition? read more - Cancelled due to COVID-19
19.3	Luigi Rizzi & Adriana Belleti Universities of Geneva and Siena	Cancelled due to COVID-19
26.3	Lotte Sommerer University of Vienna	On Shifting Strategies in the Coding of (In)definiteness: From Old English to Early Modern English - Cancelled due to COVID-19
2.4	Neta Haluts Tel Aviv University	Signs for Similar Language Mechanisms: Phonological Output Buffer Impairments in Deaf Users of Israeli Sign Language; read more
23.4	Maayan Keshev Tel Aviv University	Avoiding Marked Structures in Sentence Processing: Evidence from Hebrew Post-Verbal Subjects; read more
30.4	Alon Fishman Tel Aviv University	Copulative Perception Verbs: The Sounds of Hebrew; read more
7.5	Yechezkel Shabanov Tel Aviv University	Double Negation in Hebrew: Interpretation and Motivation; read more
14.5	Carlo Meloni Tel Aviv University	In Search of the Biblical Rhotic: A Phonological Reconstruction of resh; read more
21.5	Valeriya Afus Tel Aviv University	The Role of Prosody and Segmental Features in the Perception of Palatalization; read more
4.6	Hila Davidovich Tel Aviv University	Understanding Center Embedding Sentences: Can Agreement and Resumption Help? read more
11.6	Maayan Abenina-Adar UCLA	Expressing Ignorance with Determiner Phrases; read more
18.6	Noa Geller Tel Aviv University	Animacy, Attitudes, and Sentence Processing; read more
25.6	Anna Szabolcsi NYU	Obviation in Hungarian; read more; see slides

School of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Science Studies Thursday Interdisciplinary Colloquium Fall 2019-Winter 2020
Mess Mass Measure and Neat Mass Measure; read more; see handout	Fred Landman Tel Aviv University	31.10
Cell Identification and the Duality of Questions; read more	Danny Fox MIT	07.11
Informative Counterfactuals; read more	Todd Snider The Hebrew University	14.11
Semantic Characteristics of Schizophrenic Speech; read more	Vered Zilberstein Tel Aviv University	21.11
What Can Jewish Languages and Creoles Teach Us on Language Evolution? read more	Ilil Baum The Hebrew University	28.11
A Partially Unified Analysis of Japanese Internally and Doubly-Headed Relatives; read more	Alex Grosu Tel Aviv University	05.12
A Subregular Approach to the Problem of Learning Underlying Representations; read more* *Note that the lecture will be delivered on a Monday, at 16:15, in Gilman 496.	Adam Jardine Rutgers University	09.12
Convex Geometry Methods in Phonology: Two Examples; read more* *Note that the lecture will start at 16:15.	Giorgio Magri CNRS and University of Paris 8	12.12
Expressing Experience: Not Necessarily 'Stoned', But 'Beautiful'; read more	Chris Kennedy University of Chicago	19.12
On Sloppy Non-Pronominals in Focus Contexts; read more	Itai Bassi MIT	26.12
Deconstructing Only; read more	Aron Hirsch McGill University & The Hebrew University	02.01
Category-Specific Phonology in the Acquisition of Hebrew; read more	Noa Handelsman Tel Aviv University	09.01
Phonology-Morphology (A-)Synchronization: Typical vs. Atypical Development; read more	Mor Haim Tel Aviv University	16.01
Universal Principles and Statistical Learning in Phonology: Evidence from Early Hebrew Speech; read more	Outi Bat-El Tel Aviv University	23.01

School of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Science Studies Thursday Interdisciplinary Colloquium Winter 2019-Spring 2019
The Interface between Syntax and Theory of Mind in Pronoun Use of Children with Autism; read more	Rama Novogrodsky University of Haifa	28.02
Allomorphy and Abstractness: Empirical Considerations; read more; see handout	Renate Raffelsiefen Institute for German Language, Mannheim	07.03
On Timing of Ellipsis: Evidence from Parasitic Deletion Processes; read more	David Erschler Ben-Gurion University	14.03
Representation and Learning of Quantificational Determiners; read more	Noa Peled Tel Aviv University	28.03
Countability Expressions in Hungarian: Can Classifiers and a Mass-Count Distinction Coexist? read more	Bridget Schvarcz Bar-Ilan University	04.04
Hierarchical Processing with Sequential Models? read more	Yoav Goldberg Bar-Ilan University	11.04
Homogeneity and the Distributive-Collective Distinction; read more* .Note that the lecture will be delivered on a Tuesday, at 14:00*	Moshe Bar Lev École Normale Supérieure, Paris	30.04
Intra-Dialect Diversity in Palestinian Arabic; read more	Ori Shachmon The Hebrew University	02.05
Russian Diminutives and the Semantics of Measure, Size, and Individuation; read more	Keren Khrizman Bar-Ilan University	16.05
Towards a Relational Eigenplace; read more	Jurģis Šķilters University of Latvia	30.05
The Semantics of Prenominal Possessives in Russian; read more	Maria Gepner Bar-Ilan University	06.06
The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Verbal Alternations; read more	Yuval Katz Tel Aviv University	13.06

School of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Science Studies Thursday Interdisciplinary Colloquium Fall 2018-Winter 2019
Language from Gesture: Case Studies from Kenya and Mexico; read more	Kate Mesh and Hope Morgan University of Haifa	25.10
Grammaticalization Paths of Rectification Constructions; read more	Ruti Bardenstein Tel Aviv University	01.11
No Case for Case (or Gender) in Stamford Hill Hasidic Yiddish; read more	Kriszta Szendroi, in collaboration with Zoe Belk and Lily Kahn University College London	08.11
A Non-Unified Account of Obligatory "Focused" Expressions in Hungarian; read more	Flóra Lili Donáti Université Paris 8 - SFL, CNRS	15.11
American Sign Language Pronouns and Their Acquisition; read more	Diane Lillo-Martin University of Connecticut	22.11
Who Is Your Name?; read more	David Gil Max Planck Institute	29.11
The Spontaneous EMERGEnce of Recursion in Child Language; read more	Stephen Crain Macquarie University	06.12
Positional Allomorphy: Pausal vs. Context Forms in Tiberian Hebrew; read more	Roman Himmelreich Tel Aviv University	13.12
Ellipsis Licensing and Redundancy Reduction: A Focus-Based Approach; read more	Hadas Kotek Yale University	20.12
Mapping Natural Language Questions and Commands into Programs; read more	Jonathan Berant Tel Aviv University	27.12
Quantifier Float with Overt Restriction; read more; see handout	Daniel Margulis MIT	03.01
Minimum and Maximum Constructions: Semantics and Argumentation; read more	Nicole Katzir Tel Aviv University	10.01

School of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Science Studies Thursday Interdisciplinary Colloquium Winter 2018-Spring 2018
Expression of Negation in Hebrew: From Grammar to Co-Speech Gestures; read more	Anna Inbar and Leon Shor Tel Aviv University	08.03
The Interrelation between Root and Nominal-Pattern Extraction in the Course of the Morphological Decomposition of Hebrew Words in a Fast Priming Procedure for Sentence Reading; read more	Avital Deutsch The Hebrew University	15.03
Analyses of Japanese 'Internally-Headed' Relatives, and the Pitfalls of Homophony; read more	Alex Grosu & Koji Hoshi Tel Aviv & Keio Universities	22.03
From Predication to Prediction: Grammaticalization of the Temporal, Aspectual, and Modal Senses of the Hebrew Past Tense Copula; read more	Elior Elkayam Tel Aviv University	12.04
The New Field of Afro-Eurasian (Silk Road) Linguistics; read more	Paul Wexler Tel Aviv University	26.04
Strictly Incremental Parsing, Unconscious Deletion, and C-Command; read more	Omer Rosenbaum Tel Aviv University	03.05
On Abilities and Priorities: Existential Possessive Modals in Hebrew; read more	Aynat Rubinstein The Hebrew University	10.05
Constraints on Propositional Anaphora; read more	Todd Snider Cornell & Hebrew Universities	17.05
Working Memory, Speech Perception, and Eye-movements: The Interaction of Working Memory Load, Working Memory Span, and Noise on Spoken Word Recognition; read more	Boaz Ben-David IDC Herzliya, University of Toronto, & Toronto Rehabilitation Institute	24.05
On the Syntactic Abilities of Recurrent Neural Networks; read more	Tal Linzen Johns Hopkins University	07.06
Must/Need, May/Can, and the Scope of Negation: The Downside of Logical Paraphrases; read more	Patrick Duffley Laval University	14.06

School of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Science Studies Thursday Interdisciplinary Colloquium Fall 2017-Winter 2018
02.11	Luka Crnič The Hebrew University	Some Questions in the Theory of Antonymy; read more
09.11	Galia Hatav University of Florida	Secondary Predication and Converbs in Hebrew; read more
16.11	Annamária Kresztyankó Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest	Language Socialization and Hierarchy: Identity, Ethnicity, and Language Practice of Gypsy Children in Hungary; read more
23.11	Gabi Danon Bar-Ilan University	The Hebrew Genitive Alternation: Empirical Data and Theoretical Questions; read more
30.11	Julie Fadlon The Hebrew University	It Depends: Structural Choices in the Production of Filler-Gap Dependencies; read more
07.12	Ravit Melamed Tel Aviv University	Processing Costs of Non-Canonical Word Order Sentences in Hebrew; read more
14.12	Itamar Shatz Tel Aviv University	Phonological Selectivity in the Acquisition of English Clusters; read more
21.12	Isabelle Charnavel Harvard University	Independence from Perspective: French (Exempt) Anaphora; read more
28.12	Jonathan Avidan Tel Aviv University	The Rhyming Grammar of Modern English: A Study in Musical Theater; read more
04.01	Eli Dresner Tel Aviv University	Formal Proofs and Textual Cohesion; read more
11.01	Moshe Ziat Tel Aviv University	Null Complement Anaphora and Null Object in Hebrew; read more
18.01	Yakir Dalal Tel Aviv University	The Controlled Passive in Hebrew;

TBA