March 2021 News

March 16, 2021
Sarah Babinski and Claire Bowern both presented at The 7th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC): Recognizing Relationships, which was...
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March 16, 2021
Sigríður Sæunn Sigurðardóttir published a paper entitled, “’Haf góðan dag’ Um uppkomu nýrrar kveðju út frá hugmyndum um talgjörðir” [‘Have a nice day’ The emergence of a new...
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March 8, 2021
The talk presents several inter-related puzzles:   Puzzle 1: Why does declarative syntax plus rising intonation lead to a biased question in some languages (English) but is...
photo of Veneeta Dayal
March 6, 2021
Veneeta Dayal gave an invited talk on “(Alternative) Polar Questions, Bias and Embedding” at a workshop on Biased Questions: Experimental Results and Theoretical Modelling”,...