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; handout
20.4	Keny Chatain Institut Jean Nicod	Reducing Pronoun Accessibility To Presupposition Satisfaction; read more; slides
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 more; slides
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 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	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 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