Psychobabble Schedule

UCLA Department of Linguistics
Spring 2008

Psychobabble (the Psycholinguistics Seminar, (Linguistics 264) Spring quarter, 2008, meets in Royce 166. Meetings are held on Wednesdays from 4 to 6. Please contact the convener, Susie Curtiss at scurtisss@ucla.edu with questions or comments.

Wednesday, April 16^th Speaker: Grace Kuo

Title: "Mandarin Non-Canonical Word Orders in Sentence Processing"

Wednesday April 23^rd Speaker: Claribel Concepion

Title: TBA

Wednesday, April 30^th Speaker: Tomoko Ishizuka

Title: Development of Cross-linguistic variation in Speech and Gesture: Motion events in English and Turkish

Wednesday, May 7th^th Speaker: Flavia Adani

Title: TBA

Wednesday, May 14^th Postponed

Wednesday, May 21^st Speaker: Corianne Marie Rogalsky

Title: "Parsing the brain:  The functional neuroanatomy of sentence-processing networks".

Wednesday, May 28^th Speaker: Aniruddh Patel

Title: Music and the brain: 3 links to language

Wednesday. June 4^th Speaker: Rachel Mayberry

Title: Input and biology in language acquisition:  Insights from American Sign Language

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