Stanford linguists at summer conferences
The academic year is winding down, and this will be the last edition of the Sesquipedalian this academic year. The editors wish everyone an enjoyable and productive summer!
Needless to say, Stanford linguists continue to present their work across the globe this summer. Below is a brief list of planned activities:
- Paul Kiparsky is presenting "The Evolution of Subject Licensing in Indo-European Languages" at the 20th Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference at the University of York from June 18-21.
- Emily Lake is presenting "Speaker persona as ideological message: How do we interpret political slogans?" at Political Discourse - Multidisciplinary Approaches #2: New discourses of populism and nationalism in Edinburgh from June 21-22.
- Judith Degen is teaching a computational linguistics course at Carnegie Mellon's North American Summer School on Logic, Language, and Information from June 23-29.
- Several Stanford researchers, including Judith Degen, Reuben Cohn-Gordon, Rob Podesva, Sunwoo Jeong, Emily Lake, Chantal Gratton, and Teresa Pratt, will be speaking at Sociolinguistic, Psycholinguistic and Formal Perspectives on Meaning in Paris from July 1-3.
- Eva Portelance will present a poster titled "A Framework for Lexicalized Grammar Induction Using Variational Bayesian Inference", with co-authors Chris Bruno, Daniel Harasim, Leon Bergen and Timothy J. O'Donnell, at Language learning in humans and machines 2018 in Paris, France from July 5-6, 2018. Stanford psychology colleague Michael Frank will also be there as a keynote speaker, presenting on the theme of word learning.
- Michael Hahn is presenting "Wreth Products of Distributive Forest Algebras", with co-authors Andreas Krebs and Howard Straubing, at the Logic in Computer Science symposium in Oxford from July 9-12.