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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 morehandout

30.3

Shirly Orr

Tel Aviv University 

Scales and Inferences; read more; handout

20.4

Keny Chatain

Institut Jean Nicod 

Reducing Pronoun Accessibility To Presupposition Satisfaction; read moreslides

27.4

Georgios Vardakis

University of Padua and Tel Aviv University

The documentation and the syntax of Corfioto; read more

4.5

Andrea Beltrama

University of Pennsylvania

Navigating imprecision: how comprehenders integrate social information in pragmatic reasoning; read more
 

11.5

Gillian Ramchand

University of Tromsø 

Events in Time: On the Difference Between Endpoint and Telos; read moreslides

18.5

Galit Agmon

Upenn

Spontaneous speech: Semi-controlled linguistic stimuli in the healthy brain and in neurodegeneration; read more

8.6

Nofar Rimon

Tel Aviv University

Subject to Change: Agreement Patterns with Unaccusatives; read more
15.6

Eyal Marco

Tel Aviv University

Phonological derivations are not harmonically improving: Evidence from Nazarene Arabic; read more
22.6

Mats Rooth

Cornell University  

Semantic ellipsis after all?; read more; handout
29.6

Alma Frischoff  

Tel Aviv University

Conjunctive Readings of Disjunction and Iterated Rationality Models; read more

 

 

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 morehandoutslides

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 morehandout;

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

Units of Intra-sentential Code-Switching and the Modularity of the Language Faculty; read more  
 
19.1

Naama Gidron

Tel Aviv University

Similarity-based interference impairs comprehension: The case of Animacy; read more  

 

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 morehandout

24.3

Colin Davis

University of Konstanz

On parasitic gaps, anti-locality, and the distribution of subject movement; read morehandout

31.3

Enoch O. Aboh

University of Amsterdam

A constrained syntax in a creative mind; read morehandout

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 morehandout

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 moreThe 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 

vread moresee 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 constructionsread more

14.1

Suzi Lima

University of Toronto

Counting in Brazilian Indigenous Languagesread 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 moresee 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;
 

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