Psychobabble Schedule

UCLA Department of Linguistics
Spring 2006

Psychobabble (the Psycholinguistics Seminar, Linguistics 264) meets Spring Quarter 2006 in Campbell Hall 2122, the Linguistics Conference Room. Meetings are held on Thursdays from 4 to 6. Please contact the convener, Susie Curtiss at scurtisss@ucla.edu. with questions or comments.

Thursday, April 6^th

Speaker: Frauke Berger “The Processing of Sentences Containing the Focus Particle auch (also) by German 4-Year-Olds – an Eye-

Tracking-Study.”

Thursday, April 13th

Speaker: David Clark, M.D “A computational model for agrammatic comprehension”

Thursday, May 4th

Speaker: Shabnam Shademan “Analogy vs. Grammar in English Phonotactics”

Thursday, May 11^th

open

Thursday, May 18th

Speaker: Angela M. Nonaka “Ban Khor Sign Language: Life Cycle of a Thai Speech/Sign Community”

Thursday, May 25th

Speaker: Enchao Shi “Creativity in second language grammar: Evidence from the knowledge of causatives, resultatives, and depictives”

Thursday, June 1^st

Speaker:

Thursday, June 8^th

Speaker: Robin Thompson The grammatical functions of eye gaze in American Sign Language