A special lecture by: Dr. Adam Ussishkin at WFU, Thursday March 1st @ 4pm in Greene Hall 162

Our WFU Interdisciplinary Linguistics Minor
announces a special lecture by


Dr. Adam Ussishkin
University of Arizona

Assoc. Professor of Linguistics & Cognitive Science

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Psycholinguistics of under-studied languages: the case of subliminal speech priming in Maltese

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Early and automatic processing of linguistic stimuli is fairly well-studied for resource-heavy languages such as English (cf. work on visual masked priming by Forster and Davis 1984, Forster et al. 2003, among many others), whereas psycholinguistic studies on languages with few resources are much rarer. In this talk, I first describe the creation of the first online language corpus of Maltese, a Semitic languages for which few electronic resources exist. Next, I discuss the application of the corpus to a psycholinguistic question and investigate the psycholinguistic reality of the consonantal root, a building block of Semitic languages. This investigation is carried out using the relatively novel subliminal speech priming technique.

Thursday March 1st @ 4pm in Greene Hall 162

English woman develops French-sounding accent – USATODAY.com

Another curious report of brain trauma leading to language variation.

English woman develops French-sounding accent – USATODAY.com.

Smarter Than You Think – I.B.M.s Supercomputer to Challenge Jeopardy! Champions

Smarter Than You Think – I.B.M.s Supercomputer to Challenge Jeopardy! Champions – NYTimes.com.

Teen Wakes from Coma Speaking Fluent German – ABC News

Teen Wakes from Coma Speaking Fluent German – ABC News.

Fairness is socially-learned, not innate, research suggests – Science Fair: Science and Space News – USATODAY.com

Fairness is socially-learned, not innate, research suggests – Science Fair: Science and Space News – USATODAY.com.

How reliable are fMRI results?

Mind Hacks

via How reliable are fMRI results?.

Bilingual babies: The roots of bilingualism in newborns

Brain And Consciousness Research

via Bilingual babies: The roots of bilingualism in newborns.

Seeing the brain hear reveals surprises about how sound is processed (2/5/2010)

Seeing the brain hear reveals surprises about how sound is processed (2/5/2010).

Everybody laughs, everybody cries: Researchers identify universal emotions (2/1/2010)

Everybody laughs, everybody cries: Researchers identify universal emotions (2/1/2010).

On Language – Crash Blossoms – NYTimes.com

McDonald’s Fries the Holy Grail for Potato Farmers.

An article on ‘double-take headlines’, otherwise know as garden-path sentences in linguistics. A nice set of sentences demonstrating power of syntactic parsing preferences despite the resulting odd semantic propositions.

via On Language – Crash Blossoms – NYTimes.com.