Colloquium
The meetings are at 4:15pm in Webb 103 (unless otherwise announced) •
• Refreshments are served after the lecture at Webb 401
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School of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Science Studies Spring 2023 |
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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 Fall 2022 |
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27.10 |
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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 Spring 2022 |
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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 |
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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 Fall 2021-Winter 2022 |
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14.10 |
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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12.3 |
Naomi Havron |
Prediction as a Key Mechanism in Language Acquisition? read more - Cancelled due to COVID-19 |
19.3 |
Luigi Rizzi & Adriana Belleti |
Cancelled due to COVID-19 |
26.3 |
Lotte Sommerer |
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 |
Signs for Similar Language Mechanisms: Phonological Output Buffer Impairments in Deaf Users of Israeli Sign Language; read more |
23.4 |
Maayan Keshev |
Avoiding Marked Structures in Sentence Processing: Evidence from Hebrew Post-Verbal Subjects; read more |
30.4 |
Alon Fishman |
Copulative Perception Verbs: The Sounds of Hebrew; read more |
7.5 |
Yechezkel Shabanov |
Double Negation in Hebrew: Interpretation and Motivation; read more |
14.5 |
Carlo Meloni |
In Search of the Biblical Rhotic: A Phonological Reconstruction of resh; read more |
21.5 |
Valeriya Afus |
The Role of Prosody and Segmental Features in the Perception of Palatalization; read more |
4.6 |
Hila Davidovich |
Understanding Center Embedding Sentences: Can Agreement and Resumption Help? read more |
11.6 |
Maayan Abenina-Adar |
Expressing Ignorance with Determiner Phrases; read more |
18.6 |
Noa Geller |
Animacy, Attitudes, and Sentence Processing; read more |
25.6 |
Anna Szabolcsi |
Obviation in Hungarian; read more; see slides |
School of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Science Studies
Thursday Interdisciplinary Colloquium Fall 2019-Winter 2020 |
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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
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Todd Snider
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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;
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Alex Grosu Tel Aviv University |
05.12 |
A Subregular Approach to the Problem of Learning Underlying Representations*; *Note that the lecture will be delivered on a Monday, at 16:15, in Gilman 496. |
Adam Jardine
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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 |
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
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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 |
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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
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David Erschler
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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 |
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
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Keren Khrizman
Bar-Ilan University
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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 |
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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
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Kriszta Szendroi, in collaboration with Zoe Belk and Lily Kahn
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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
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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
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Hadas Kotek
Yale University
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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 |
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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
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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
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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
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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 |
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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 |