The colloquium takes place on Thursdays 16:00-17:30 at Webb 103 (unless otherwise announced). After the colloquium refreshments are served at Webb 405.
The Shirley and Leslie Porter School of Cultural Studies Thursday Interdisciplinary Colloquium Winter 2018-Spring 2018 |
08.03 |
Anna Inbar and Leon Shor
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Expression of Negation in Hebrew: From Grammar to Co-Speech Gestures |
15.03 |
Avital Deutsch
The Hebrew University
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TBA |
22.03 |
Alex Grosu
Tel Aviv University
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TBA
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12.04 |
Elior Elkayam
Tel Aviv University
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TBA |
26.04 |
Paul Wexler
Tel Aviv University
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TBA
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03.05 |
Omer Rosenbaum
Tel Aviv University
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TBA |
10.05 |
Aynat Rubinstein
The Hebrew University
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TBA |
17.05 |
TBA
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TBA |
24.05 |
Boaz Ben David
IDC Herzliya
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TBA |
07.06 |
Tal Linzen
Johns Hopkins University
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TBA |
14.06 |
Patrick Duffley
Laval University
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TBA |
Colloquia of Previous Semesters
The Shirley and Leslie Porter School of Cultural Studies Thursday Interdisciplinary Colloquium Fall 2017-Winter 2018 |
02.11 |
Luka Crnič
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Some Questions in the Theory of Antonymy; read more |
09.11 |
Galia Hatav
University of Florida
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Secondary Predication and Converbs in Hebrew; read more |
16.11 |
Annamária Kresztyankó
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
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Language Socialization and Hierarchy: Identity, Ethnicity, and Language Practice of Gypsy Children in Hungary; read more
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23.11 |
Gabi Danon
Bar-Ilan University
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The Hebrew Genitive Alternation: Empirical Data and Theoretical Questions; read more |
30.11 |
Julie Fadlon
The Hebrew University
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It Depends: Structural Choices in the Production of Filler-Gap Dependencies; read more
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07.12 |
Ravit Melamed
Tel Aviv University
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Processing Costs of Non-Canonical Word Order Sentences in Hebrew; read more |
14.12 |
Itamar Shatz
Tel Aviv University
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Phonological Selectivity in the Acquisition of English Clusters; read more |
21.12 |
Isabelle Charnavel
Harvard University
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Independence from Perspective: French (Exempt) Anaphora; read more |
28.12 |
Jonathan Avidan
Tel Aviv University
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The Rhyming Grammar of Modern English: A Study in Musical Theater; read more |
04.01 |
Eli Dresner
Tel Aviv University
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Formal Proofs and Textual Cohesion; read more |
11.01 |
Moshe Ziat
Tel Aviv University
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Null Complement Anaphora and Null Object in Hebrew; read more |
18.01 |
Yakir Dalal
Tel Aviv University
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The Controlled Passive in Hebrew; read more |
The Shirley and Leslie Porter School of Cultural Studies Thursday Interdisciplinary Colloquium Winter 2017-Spring 2017 |
23.03 |
John Myhill & Dua'a Abu Elhija Mahajne
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Hebrew Loanwords in the CMC Usage of the Palestinian Israeli Variety of Arabic; read more
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30.03 |
Susan Rothstein
Bar Ilan University
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Cardinality Scales, Measuring, and Approximation; read more |
20.04 |
Shirly Or
Tel Aviv University
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The Case of Literally True Propositions with False Implicatures; read more
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27.04 |
Scott Spicer
Northwestern University
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Dressing to Change; read more |
04.05 |
Pavel Ozerov
The Hebrew University
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Beyond Information Structure: “Information-structural” Phenomena in Burmese and Their Functional Origins; read more
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11.05 |
Ruben van de Vijver (& Jessica Nieder)
Heinrich-Heine-Universität at Düsseldorf
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Analogy in the Plural System of Maltese; read more
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18.05 |
Peter Cole & Gaby Hermon
University of Delaware
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Can UG Explain the Variation in WH in Situ?; read more |
01.06 |
Samuel Jay Keyser
MIT
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Music, Poetry, Painting, and Easter Eggs; read more |
08.06 |
Tomer Avraham
Tel Aviv University
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Learning Head-Complement Order with Minimalist Grammars; read more |
15.06 |
Adam Rimon
Tel Aviv University
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A Frequency-Based Model for Lexicalization of Logical Operators; read more |
22.06 |
Noa Bassel
Tel Aviv University
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Reflexive PPs; read more |
29.06 |
Ezer Rasin
MIT
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An Argument for Severing Stress from Phonology; read more |
The Shirley and Leslie Porter School of Cultural Studies Thursday Interdisciplinary Colloquium Fall 2016-Winter 2017 |
10.11 |
Michael Rochemont
University of British Columbia
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Raising only; see abstract and handout
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17.11 |
Norvin Richards
MIT
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Contiguity Theory and Pied-Piping; see abstract and handout |
24.11 |
Fred Landman
Tel Aviv University
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Why Measures Are Mass and How Mass Counts; see abstract and handout
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01.12 |
Tal Ness
Tel Aviv University
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Lexical Inhibition Due to Failed Prediction: Behavioral Evidence and ERP Correlates; read more |
08.12 |
Tova Rapoport
Ben-Gurion University
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Interfaces and the Middle; read more
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15.12 |
Sharon Peperkamp
CNRC & École Normale Supérieure
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Experimental Investigations in Loanword Phonology; read more
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22.12 |
Kayla Gold-Shalev
Tel Aviv University
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Verb-Specific Lexical Knowledge and Online Sentence Processing in Hebrew: A Look at Prepositions and Filler-Gap Formation; read more |
29.12 |
Idan Landau
Ben-Gurion University
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Hybrid Nouns and Agreement Zones within DP; read more |
05.01 |
Nomi Erteschik-Shir
Ben-Gurion University
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Variation in Mainland Scandinavian Object Shift as Prosodic Repair; read more |
19.01 |
Israela Becker
Tel Aviv University
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The Negation Operator Is Not a Suppressor of the Concept in Its Scope. In Fact, Quite the Opposite; read more |
26.01 |
Malka Rappaport-Hovav
The Hebrew University
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Towards a Theory of Grammatically Relevant Ontological Categories; read more |
The Shirley and Leslie Porter School of Cultural Studies Thursday Interdisciplinary Colloquium Winter 2016-Spring 2016 |
25.02 |
Alex Grosu
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Two Case Studies in (In)definiteness and (In)determinacy: FRs/TFRs and (In)definite Amount Relatives; read more |
03.03 |
Vered Silber-Varod
The Open University
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A Linguistic Perspective on Hesitation Disfluencies: Evidence from Hebrew and Japanese; read more |
10.03 |
Yael Greenberg
Bar-Ilan University
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Metalinguistic Contrast and Scalar Implicatures: The Case of x, but (really) X; read more |
17.03 |
Julie Fadlon
Univeristy of California, San Diego
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There’s a Pronoun Which I Don’t Like to Hear But I Do Like to Produce It: What Modulates the Effect of Resumption on Processing?;read more |
31.03 |
Sharon Armon-Lotem & Reem Bshara
Bar-ilan University & Bet Berl College
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Production of Relative Clauses by Arabic- Speaking Children with Language Impairment: Two Sources of Difficulty; read more
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07.04 |
Omer Korat
Tel Aviv University
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Semantic Shifts in the Nominal Domain; read more |
14.04 |
Outi Bat-El
Tel Aviv University
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Hebrew Stress: Back to the Future; read more |
05.05 |
Assif Am-David
Goethe University, Frankfurt
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Conventional Implicatures as a Meaning Component in Definites; read more |
19.05 |
Si Berebi
Tel Aviv University
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Consonantal Roots from a Universal Perspective; read more |
02.06 |
Guglielmo Cinque
University of Venice
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Sources of Parametric Variation across Languages; read more |
09.06 |
14:15-15:45: Gregory Ward
Northwestern University
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A Pragmatic Analysis of a Focus-Indicating Modal: That would be would; read more |
16:15-17:45: Inbal Abarbanel
Tel Aviv University
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From Bambara to Hebrew: Perception of Lexical Tone by Speakers of a Non-tonal Language; read more |
The Shirley and Leslie Porter School of Cultural Studies Thursday Interdisciplinary Colloquium Fall 2015-Winter 2016 |
29.10 |
Lior Laks
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Hebrew Agent Nouns: Competing Patterns and Doublets Formation; read more
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05.11 |
Daphna Heller
University of Toronto
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What Visual Memory Can Tell Us about the Context: The Case of Modification; read more |
12.11 |
Angelika Kratzer
University of Massachusetts
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Attitude Ascriptions and Speech Reports: A Requiem for Sentential Complements; read more |
19.11 |
Brian Buccola
McGill Uni. & LLCC, Hebrew Uni.
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Modified and Unmodified Numerals: Lessons from Genericity; read more |
26.11 |
Maayan Keshev
Tel Aviv University
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Active Dependency Formation in Islands: First and Last Resorts; read more
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03.12 |
Andreas Haida
LLCC, Hebrew University
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On Deriving the Intermediately Exhaustive Reading of Wh-Complements; read more
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10.12 |
Michael Becker
Stony Brook University
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Acquiring and Learning Irregular Plural Morphology in Brazilian Portuguese; read more |
17.12 |
Mira Ariel
Tel Aviv University
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Variable Discourse Prominence for Various Pragmatic Inferences; read more |
24.12 |
Yifat Stern
Tel Aviv University
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Syncretism in Modern Hebrew: A Study of Word Recognition and Lexical Storage; read more |
07.01 |
Shoval Sadde
Tel Aviv University
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What's Difficult about the Interpretation of Disjunctions (in Light of Scalar Implicatures); read more |
14.01 |
Daniel Margulis
MIT
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Expletive Negation and only; read more |
The Shirley and Leslie Porter School of Cultural Studies Thursday Interdisciplinary Colloquium Winter 2015-Spring 2015 |
12.03 |
Yishai Neuman
Achva College for Education
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Inalienable Possession Constructions in Spoken Hebrew; read more |
19.03 |
Aldo Sevi
Tel Aviv University
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Nuclear Accent and Lexical Meaning: The Case of bixlal; read more |
26.03 |
Elitzur Dattner
Tel Aviv University
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Discourse Profile Constructions: A Usage-based Approach to the Hebrew Dative; read more
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31.03 |
Bridget Schvartz
Bar-Ilan University
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Classifier Constructions in Hungarian and the Semantics of the -nyi Suffix; read more
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16.04 |
Paul Egré
Institut Jean-Nicod
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Vague Judgment: A Probabilistic Account; read more
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30.04 |
Netanel Haim
Tel Aviv University
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Lexical Acquisition Requires Syntactic Acquisition; read more |
07.05 |
Gabi Danon
Bar-Ilan University
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Ranking Alternative Specifications of Abstract Agreement Features; read more |
14.05 |
Haifa University
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Bilingualism and Cross-language
Influences; read more
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21.05 |
Irena Botwinik, Efrat Harel, & Sharon Armon-Lotem
Tel Aviv University, Ono College, & Bar-Ilan University
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Production of Object Relatives in Bilingual Acquisition: L1 Russian, L2 Hebrew; read more |
04.06 |
Olga Aizenberg
The Hebrew University
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Complex Sentence Comprehension in Healthy and Dyslexic Adults; read more
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11.06 |
Moshe Elyashiv Bar-lev
The Hebrew University
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De Re Tenses in English and Hebrew and Trace Conversion; read more |
18.06 |
Iddo Berger
Tel Aviv University
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Learning Rule-based Morpho-phonology; read more |
The Shirley and Leslie Porter School of Cultural Studies Thursday Interdisciplinary Colloquium Fall 2014-Winter 2015 |
06.11 |
Hadas Yeverechyahu
Tel Aviv University
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The Role of Similarity in Co-Occurrence Restrictions: Evidence from the Hebrew Verbal System; read more
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13.11 |
Roey Gafter
Tel Aviv University
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Socially Meaningful Variation in Hebrew Consonants: Authenticity and Ethnic Identity in the Tel Aviv Area; read more
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20.11 |
Marie-Christine Meyer
The Hebrew University
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When and How Implicatures Make You More Efficient (When Talking); read more |
27.11 |
Lior Laks
Bar-Ilan University
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Morpho-Thematic Transparency: Instrument Noun Formation in Hebrew and Its Relation to the Verbal System; read more |
04.12 |
Stephen Schiffer
New York University
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The Impossibility of Gricean Semantics; read more
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11.12 |
Hadas Kotek
McGill University
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Two Arguments for Partial Covert Wh-Movement in English Questions; read more
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18.12 |
Colin Philips
University of Maryland
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Cognitive Mechanisms for Encoding and Navigating Structured Linguistic Representations; read more |
25.12 |
Omri Abend
University of Edinburgh
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Bootstrapping of Grammar from Sentence-Meaning Pairs; read more
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01.01 |
Aya Meltzer-Asscher
Tel Aviv University
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How the Brain Processes Different Dimensions of Argument Structure Complexity: Evidence from fMRI; read more
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15.01 |
Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal
The Hebrew University
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NP-Strategies for Expressing Reciprocity: History and Semantics; read more
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22.01 |
Björn Köhnlein
Leiden University & Ben-Gurion University
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The Interaction of Prosody and Segmental Structure in Language Change; read more |
The Shirley and Leslie Porter School of Cultural Studies Thursday Interdisciplinary Colloquium Winter 2014-Spring 2014 |
20.02 |
Einat Shetreet
Children's Hospital Boston & Harvard University
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Scalar Implicatures in the Brain: Implications for Language Acquisition; read more
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27.02 |
Lyle Lustigman
Tel Aviv University
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Interfaces between Linguistic Systems: Evidence from Hebrew Child Language; read more
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06.03 |
Aynat Rubinstein
The Hebrew University
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A Few Lessons Hebrew Can Teach Us about Gradable Modality; read more |
13.03 |
Tel Aviv University
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Symposium on Brain and Language; read more
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20.03 |
Ilona Spector-Shirtz
The Hebrew University
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Hebrew Nonverbal Sentences Revisited; read more
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27.03 |
Noa Shuval
Tel Aviv University
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The Processing and Representation of Negated and Repaired Constituents; read more |
03.04 |
Rama Novogrodsky
Haifa University
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The Case of Every and Each in Child Language: Evidence from English and Hebrew; read more |
24.04 |
Tel Aviv University
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2nd Graduate Student Workshop
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01.05 |
Tanya Philippova
Ben-Gurion University
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P-Stranding, [P Clitic] and Prosody; read more
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08.05 |
Lior Laks, Evan Cohen, & Stav Azulay
Bar-Ilan & Tel Aviv Universities,
Oranim Academic College
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What Are We Faithful to? On Vowel Epenthesis and Variation (or Lack Thereof) in Hebrew Verbs; read more
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15.05 |
Avi Mizrachi
Tel Aviv University
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Voicing Assimilation in Hebrew, Voice Hert Zich? read more
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29.05 |
Tal Linzen
NYU
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Uncertainty and Prediction in Language Comprehension as a Platform for Studying Linguistic Representations; read more |
05.06 |
Thomas Groβ
Aichi University, Japan
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Catena-based Dependency Grammar; read more |
12.06 |
Noa Brandel
Tel Aviv University
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Parameters (or Lack Thereof) in L2 Acquisition: The Null Subject Parameter; read more |
The Shirley and Leslie Porter School of Cultural Studies Thursday Interdisciplinary Colloquium Fall 2013-Winter 2014 |
24.10 |
Dganit Kim Tel Aviv University |
The Dative Dispositional Construction; read more |
31.10 |
Alex Grosu Tel Aviv University |
Transparent Free Relatives: The 'Headedness' Controversy - Semantic and Morphological Argumentation; read more |
07.11 |
Sefi Potashnik Tel Aviv University |
The Locus of the Transitive-Unaccusative Alternation: Syntax or Lexicon?; read more |
14.11 |
Noam Faust The Hebrew University |
Metathesis in Tigre Verbs; read more
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21.11 |
Olga Kagan Ben-Gurion University |
On the Interaction of Gradability and Modality: The Case of almost; read more
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28.11 |
Hadass Zaidenberg Tel Aviv University |
Prosody-Pragmatic Interface: Evidence from Hebrew Speakers with Asperger Syndrome; read more
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05.12 |
Nomi Erteschik-Shir Ben-Gurion University |
Prosody: A Source of Word-Order Microparameters; read more
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12.12 |
Keren Khrizman Bar-Ilan University |
Approximative Inversion in Russian as a Measure Construction; read more
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19.12 |
Yael Sharvit UCLA |
Whether or not Anything; read more
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26.12 |
Daphna Heller University of Toronto |
On the Probabilistic Nature of Referential Domains: Evidence from Mismatched Perspectives; read more
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02.01 |
Uriel Cohen Priva Brown University |
Informational Constraints; read more
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09.01 |
Maria Goldshtein Tel Aviv Universtiy |
A Discourse-Based Typology of Intensifiers; read more |
16.01 |
Tali Arad Tel Aviv University
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The Nature of Resumptive Pronouns: Evidence from Parasitic Gaps; read more
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The Shirley and Leslie Porter School of Cultural Studies Thursday Interdisciplinary Colloquium Winter 2013-Spring 2013 |
28.02 |
Aviad Albert Tel Aviv University |
Phonotactic Universals in Modern Hebrew: Evidence for Prosodic Alignment of Stops; read more
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07.03 |
Bruno Nicenboim University of Potsdam |
The Effect of Distance on Wh-Dependencies: An Individual Differences Perspective; read more
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14.03 |
Hadas Velan The Hebrew University |
Lexical Representation of Printed Words: Language Specific or Structure Specific? read more
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04.04 |
Nirit Kadmon & Aldo Sevi Tel Aviv University |
On the Pragmatics of Three Prosodic Patterns in All-New Sentences; read more
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11.04 |
Tel Aviv University |
Graduate Student Workshop in memory of Tanya Reinhart; read more
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18.04 |
Geoffrey Khan University of Cambridge |
Some Features of the Phonology and Morphophonology of Neo-Aramaic; read more |
25.04 |
Ariel Cohen Ben-Gurion University |
An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Embedded Epistemic Modals; read more
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02.05 |
Shira Farby Bar-Ilan University |
Islands for WH-Movement: Acceptability Judgments of Gaps and Pronouns; read more |
09.05 |
Ezer Rasin Tel Aviv University |
A Learning Algorithm for Optimality Theory Grammars; read more
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16.05 |
Elizabeth Ritter Ben-Gurion University |
Animating the Clausal Spine: INFL and Aspect in Blackfoot; read more
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30.05 |
Leonard Babby Princeton University |
An Integrated Theory of Morphosyntax; read more
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06.06 |
Julie Fadlon Tel Aviv University |
The Directionality of Verbal Derivational Relationships: A Psycholinguistic Study; read more |
13.06 |
Gal Belsitzman Tel Aviv University |
On the Notion of Equivalence in Narrative Coordinated Constructions; read more |
The Shirley and Leslie Porter School of Cultural Studies Thursday Interdisciplinary Colloquium Fall 2012-Winter 2013 |
01.11 |
Fred Landman Tel Aviv University |
Japanese Internally Headed Relatives: Phantom Gaps, Role Choice, and How to Stay away from Scope |
08.11 |
Susan Rothstein Bar-Ilan University |
Adjectivally Headed Construct States |
15.11 |
Orna Peleg Tel Aviv University |
The Relationship between Orthographic, Phonological and Semantic Representations in the Two Cerebral Hemispheres |
22.11 |
Inbal Arnon University of Haifa |
Starting Big: When Bigger is Better in Language Learning
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29.11 |
Danny Fox The Hebrew University |
Children’s Interpretation of Disjunctive Sentences and the Theory of Scalar Implicature
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06.12 |
Galit Sasson The Hebrew University |
Absolute vs. Relative Adjectives: From Stage-Level Measurements and Comparison Classes to Absolute Properties
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13.12 |
Gabi Danon Bar-Ilan University |
Hebrew ze-Clauses and Beyond
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20.12 |
Nadezhda Samokhin Tel Aviv University |
Negation in Context: Novel Metaphors in Russian
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27.12 |
Asaf Bachrach UMR 7023 |
Linearizing Multi-Dominance Structures
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03.01 |
Shaul Lev Tel Aviv University |
Two Types of Argument Structure for the Same Verb in Hebrew
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10.01 |
Ira Noveck CNRS, Lyon |
Narrowing
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17.01 |
Loraine Obler CUNY Graduate Center |
What Does It Mean to Lose a First Language? |
24.01 |
Ana Müller University of São Paulo
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Universal Quantification in Brazilian Portuguese
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