Month: May 2013

Has been moved Go to: http://websites.umass.edu/linguist501-moiry/ ? Read more →

The CHILDES manual is on line @ http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/manuals/chat.pdf This manual is shorter: http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/intro/stephany.pdf  Choose a language:  http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/browser/ Look at http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/UG/course/lx700-s02/childesclass.html Final projects: experiment papers Read more →

Fall 2012 MACHMER E 37, TUTH 11.15-12.30 MAGDA OIRY MOIRY AT LINGUIST.UMASS.EDU 313 SOUTH COLLEGE, 545-6826 OFFICE HOURS: TUTH 10-11 OR BY APPOINTMENT MATTHIEU DECKER MPDECKER AT STUDENT.UMASS.EDU OFFICE HOURS: MWF 11-12 OR BY APPOINTMENT SYLLABUS Themes: What syntactic properties are shared by all natural languages? What syntactic properties distinguish them? What do we know when we know a language? What… Read more →

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This year UUSLAW is being held at UMass on November 10th. The schedule is right below. We will have the workshop in the Math Lounge, directions below.   Schedule 10:15-10:45 | Coffee & Refreshments 10:45- 11:15 | Andie Faber (UMass Amherst), “L1 & L2 Processing of subject pronouns with Epicene and Bigender Antecedents” 11:15-11:45 | Lyn Tieu & Troy Messick… Read more →

Workshop on the Acquisition of Quantification We are pleased to announce a workshop on the acquisition of quantification, to be held at UMass Amherst, Oct. 4-5 2013. Invited Speakers: Martin Hackl (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Julien Musolino (Rutgers University) William Philip (University of Utrecht) The past two decades have seen detailed and wide-ranging investigations of quantification in child language. This… Read more →