January 13

Misha Becker

University of North Carolina

Strategies for Learning the Raising-Control Distinction

Tuesday, January 17, 5:00 pm (NOTE unusual time & day)

Ted Gibson

MIT

Syntactic processing: (1) Constraint interaction in the resolution of syntactic category ambiguity; and (2) Phrasal adjacency in syntactic structure

January 27

Suzanne Romaine

(Oxford)

"Egad, but I had like to have been baffled again": The rise and death(?) of a rare syntactic construction

February 24

Florian Jaeger

Stanford University

Beyond Optionality: How Language Use Shapes Syntactic Selection

March 3

Brian MacWhinney

Carnegie-Mellon University

A Unified Model of First and Second Language Acquisition

April 7

Paul Smolensky

Johns Hopkins University

Toward a unified science of language

April 14

John A. Hawkins

Cambridge University

Some Issues for a Processing Typology of Relative Clauses

May 12

Andrew Garrett

UC Berkeley

Paradigmatic heterogeneity

October 27

Shalom Lappin

King's College, London

Stuart Shieber

Harvard University

Weak Bias Language Models and Universal Grammar

Jointly sponsored by The Symbolic Systems Program

November 3

Julie Sedivy

Brown University

Temporal dynamics of conversational implicature during real-time processing

December 1

John T. Hale

Michigan State University, visiting Stanford Fall 2006

Design Choices in Computer Models of Human Sentence Comprehension