Dissertation Talk: Natalia Talmina

111 Krieger Hall 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD, United States

Pragmatic inference in spatial language. ABSTRACT: Spatial prepositions left, right, above, below, in, on, and others belong to a closed lexical class, meaning that the same spatial term frequently describes a wide range of spatial relations. As a result, speakers have to make generalizations about what kind of spatial relations can be described with the […]

Dissertation Talk: Suhas Arehalli

111 Krieger Hall 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD, United States

Structural Representations in Online Syntactic Processing: An Artificial Neural Network Approach. ABSTRACT: Speakers of a language are able to effortlessly determine whether sentences abide by grammatical rules: we instantly know "The dog runs" is a good sentence, but "The dogs runs" is not. Work in syntactic theory suggests that it is necessary to represent complex […]

Event Series Brown Bag Talks

Brown Bag Talk: Yingqi Rong

111 Krieger Hall 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD, United States

Brain and Emergence: From Syntergetic Cort to Causal Structure ABSTRACT: Emergence, also known as "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts", is a widespread phenomenon in various complex systems. How did the first living cell emerge from the collisions of different molecules in the early Earth's environment? How do large neural language […]