Weekly Digest, 9/9/2022

After a nice long weekend, our linguists have had a short but busy (and very hot) week!

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Look Who’s Talking 🗣

• Several members of our department gave talks and posters at AMLaP (Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing), held in a hybrid format at York University in York, UK Sept. 7-9:

  • Ian Rigby and Elsi Kaiser: “Breaking the Tie: Sound Symbolism in Visual Categorization”

  • Adam Woodnutt and Elsi Kaiser: “Principled Differences between Singular Definite and Bare Plural Generics”

  • Jun Lyu and Elsi Kaiser: “Cataphora resolution and Principle B in L2 English”

  • Jesse Storbeck and Elsi Kaiser: “Real-time discourse processing of possessed referents”

  • Elsi Kaiser and Jesse Storback: “Who said that? Referential effects during processing of subjective and objective adjectives”

  • Elsi Kaiser, Deborah Ho, Haley Hsu, Claire Benet Post, and Madeline Rouse: “How we talk about people: On the gender bias associated with referring to someone with only their last name”

  • Elsi Kaiser, Deborah Ho, and Claire Benet Post: “(Un)certainty in language and cognition: Eyewitness reports vs. statistical probability”

Dani Byrd’s class tours USC Dynamic Imaging Science Center

Dani Byrd‘s Freshman Seminar class took a tour of the Dynamic Imaging Science Center with Viterbi Professor Krishna Nayak. Graduate students Yijing Lu, Jessica Campbell, Haley Hsu, and Prakash Kumar and undergraduate Pooja Kowshik assisted, while Dani was scanned! A fun time was had by all!

Teatime is back! 🫖

After several years of hiatus due to the pandemic, we’re so happy to announce that department teatime is finally back! Regular teatime will resume this coming Thursday and recur every week on Th 3:30-4:30 in the conference room. Take a break and come say hi! (Hint: Early birds get the rare M&M chocolate chip cookies!)

Upcoming Events

• Monday 9/12, 1pm @ PhonLunch: Organizational Meeting

• Tuesday 9/13, 9:30am @ Psycholing Lab: Zuzanna Fuchs on “Teasing apart the statistical vs grammatical account for facilitative use of gender in Heritage Spanish (a project in development)”

• Thursday 9/15, 3:30pm: Department Teatime!