Weekly Digest 10/09

Reed Blaylock gave an invited talk titled “Breaking Down the Beat: The Art and Science of Beatboxing” at the Sonic R/Evolutions exhibition on Friday 09/29.

Khalil Iskarous gave an invited talk  titled “Dynamical principles of hydrostat movement: worm, octopus, and tongue” on 10/6, at Ultrafest 8, University of Potsdam.

Elsi Kaiser gave an invited plenary talk titled “Informativity, interaction and  information structure:  Psycholinguistic investigations of prosody” (based on joint work with Arunima Choudhury and Iris Ouyang) on 10/04 at the Workshop on Prosody and Meaning, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany. Elsi also gave an invited colloquium talk on 10/02 at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands as part of the Center for Language and Cognition colloquium series, titled “Subjectivity and perspective-sensitivity in adjective interpretation: Effects on pronoun interpretation”.

Groningen

the university of konstanz campus

the university of konstanz campus

the old town of Konstanz

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Here’s the breakdown for this week:

Monday 10/09 at 2:30pm in the Conference Room: PhonLunch! Sarah Harper will present “Phonological and phonetic knowledge in the segmentation of words with novel onset phonotactics.”

Also on Monday, at 3:30pm in the Conference Room: Syntax+! Stefan Keine and Bhamati Dash will present their NELS talk on “Agreement reversals and the cyclicity of Agree.”

and Wednesday 10/11 at 12pm in the Conference Room: Psycholinguistics lab meeting! Monica Do will give a presentation titled “Focus on planning messages.“