Psychobabble Schedule

UCLA Department of Linguistics
Winter 2007

Psychobabble (the Psycholinguistics Seminar, (Linguistics 264) meets Winter Quarter 2006 in Rolfe Hall, 3123.. Meetings are held on Wednesdays from 4 to 6. Please contact the convener, Susie Curtiss at scurtisss@ucla.edu with questions or comments.

Wednesday, Wednesday, January 24^th Speaker: Eunjeong Oh of Korea University.,: Title: “A Case study of Structural Transfer the Acquisition of English Double Objects by Korean Speakers".

Wednesday, January 31^st Speaker: Susannah Kerby, Title of talk: “When the Learning Gets Tough, the Tough Get Learning:

Abstract verb-learning in the face of ambiguous strings (The case of raising-to-object and object control)

Wednesday, February 7^th

Wednesday, February 14^th Speaker: Lawrence Cheung: "The acquisition of elliptical constructions in Cantonese."

Wednesday, February 21^st Speaker: Anne-Catherine Bachould-Levi, “Striatum and language: the model of Huntington’s disease”

Wednesday, February 28^th Speaker:

Wednesday, March 7^th

Wednesday, March 14^th

Wednesday, March 21^st

Wednesday, March 28^th

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