Weekly Digest – September 23, 2019

Hello everyone! This week, in the Linguistics department…

Today, at 3:30 in the Conference Room: Jason Shaw (Yale) will be giving the first colloquium of the semester: “The temporal geometry of phonology.”

Tuesday (09/24) 9:30am in the Conference Room: Psycholinguistics Lab Meeting!Cindy Chiang will talk about “Examining the effects of disfluencies on verb bias”.

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The Washington Postfeatured facial and voice recognition technology developed by Shrikanth Narayanan of the USC Viterbi School and his team to help the Geena Davis Institute on Gender ascertain the screen and speaking time of men and women in movies, TV shows and ads. “An analysis of leading characters in the 50 most popular children’s television programs in 2018 showed that on-screen gender parity had been achieved, with women accounting for 52 percent of lead or co-lead roles in those shows,” they wrote.