Speech production is a core component of human communication, allowing individuals to express meaning and engage with others seamlessly. This thesis explores the mechanisms underlying language production in native Mandarin Chinese, with a particular focus on semantic and lexico-syntactic features involved in word production.
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A syntax-semantics workshop "Onward and Upward, or Not: Form-meaning mismatches in Modality, Agreement, and Negation" will take place in Georg-August-University G枚ttingen on 14th November 2025. The topics of this workshop include negation, modality and agreement. The workshop is celebrating the achievements and contributions of Hedde Zeijlstra and his colleagues to the study of the syntax-semantics interface. The workshop will include 6 invited talks and a poster session.
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This dissertation examines three kinds of grammatical structures present in Yoruba drum music and language.
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鈥淵ou ask what Hanfu is? Essentially, you are asking what this group of people is doing!鈥�
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A syntax-semantics workshop "Onward and Upward, or Not: Form-meaning mismatches in Modality, Agreement, and Negation" will take place in Georg-August-University G枚ttingen on 14th November 2025. The topics of this workshop include negation, modality and agreement. The workshop is celebrating the achievements and contributions of Hedde Zeijlstra and his colleagues to the study of the syntax-semantics interface. The workshop will include 6 invited talks and a poster session.
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RALFe 2026, the ninth edition of Rencontres autour de la linguistique formelle, France鈥檚 premier annual conference for formal linguistics, will take place at Universit茅 Paris Cit茅 on June 3 2026 and Universit茅 Paris 8 on June 4鈥�5 2026. Paris Cit茅鈥檚 Laboratoire de linguistique formelle (LLF) will host a one-day workshop entitled 鈥楢llomorphy across grammar鈥�. Paris 8鈥檚 Structures formelles du langage (SFL) will host the main conference.
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Our invited speakers are:
- Colin Phillips (University of
Japhug is a vulnerable Gyalrongic language, which belongs to the Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan) family. It is spoken by several thousand speakers in Mbarkham county, Rngaba district, Sichuan province, China. This grammar is the result of nearly 20 years of fieldwork on one variety of Japhug, based on a corpus of narratives and conversations, a large part of which is available from the Pangloss Collection. It covers the whole grammar of the language, and the text examples provide a unique insight
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We invite you to participate in the 'South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language (SAFAL) 2025'. The conference will bring together researchers investigating South Asian languages to exchange ideas in different domains of psycholinguistic inquiry including language acquisition, language processing, multilingualism, and literacy development. The meeting will be held in hybrid modality to allow for broad participation of students and researchers. Participants can attend remotely
Open Call
Short-term Fellowships at the Collaborative Research Center 1629 鈥淣egation in language and beyond鈥� (NegLaB)
The Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 鈥淣egation in language and beyond鈥� (SFB 1629 NegLaB) at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universit盲t Frankfurt am Main, focuses on a comprehensive exploration of the topic of negation in language and cognition. The general aim of the CRC is to unravel the complexities of negation across different languages and its implications for our understandin
We invite you to participate in the 'South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language (SAFAL) 2025'. The conference will bring together researchers investigating South Asian languages to exchange ideas in different domains of psycholinguistic inquiry including language acquisition, language processing, multilingualism, and literacy development. The meeting will be held in hybrid modality to allow for broad participation of students and researchers. Participants can attend remotely
Call for Papers:
The study of modality in logic is as old as logic itself. Modern propositional and predicate logic replaced notions like 鈥榥ecessary鈥� and 鈥榩ossible鈥�, traditionally used to define what it means for a proposition to follow from other propositions, by quantification over ways to interpret the non-logical symbols of the language. But the study of reasoning with the modalities themselves has continued in logic, with the modern tools now available. Early syntactic studies of systems
Our next presentation will be on Tuesday, November 4, from 1-2 pm in room 002 and on Zoom. Presenter: Morgan Sonderegger Title: A survey of the corpus phonetics pipeline Abstract: Morgan will give the first lecture of his LSA 2025 course, described here — covering speech corpora and available tools for doing corpus phonetics, in current practice, at a high level. The full schedule […]
Professor Kriszta Eszter Szendr艖i (University of Vienna) will give a guest presentation in the Syntax-Semantics meeting on November 4, at 3:00-4:20pm. A reception will follow at 4:30pm in Thomson House. The 3:00pm meeting will be held in Room 117 of the 9I制作厂免费 linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/bQ4IXlJxTTShVcMHOosNtQ Kriszta will be presenting on 鈥淭he typology […]
Formal Linguistic Approaches to MultiModality (FLAMM) will take place at Trinity College Dublin on 4-5 December 2025. The workshop aims to promote and advance the study of multimodality from a formal linguistic perspective by bringing together scholars interested in the formal study of multimodality.
Invited Speakers:
- Cornelia Ebert (Goethe-Universit盲t Frankfurt)
- Donna Jo Napoli (Swarthmore College)
- Philippe Schlenker (CNRS - Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris / New York University)
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Formal Linguistic Approaches to MultiModality (FLAMM) will take place at Trinity College Dublin on 4-5 December 2025. The workshop aims to promote and advance the study of multimodality from a formal linguistic perspective by bringing together scholars interested in the formal study of multimodality.
Invited Speakers:
- Cornelia Ebert (Goethe-Universit盲t Frankfurt)
- Donna Jo Napoli (Swarthmore College)
- Philippe Schlenker (CNRS - Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris / New York University)
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