Wednesday Workshops

July 9th

3:30–5:00 pm
Reading Group: “How to Do Things with Mental Spaces”
Organizer: Don Peterkin (independent researcher)

July 16th

9:00 am–12:00 noon and 2:00–5:00 pm
Round Table: “LLT^2: From learning to linguistic theory; From language to learning theory”
Organizers: Dagmar Divjak (University of Birmingham), Petar Milin (University of Birmingham), Vsevolod Kapatsinski (Uiniversity of Oregon)

July 16th

9:00 am–12:00 noon and 2:00–5:00 pm
Tutorial: “One size does not fit all: Tailoring the Montreal Forced Aligner (MFA) to your data”

July 16

12:00 noon – 1:00 pm
Mentoring session: PUMP (pop-up mentoring program)
Organizers: Hadas Kotek (Apple/MIT), Melissa Baese-Berk (University of Chicago), Michael McAuliffe (McGill University), Kaylynn Gunter (University of Oregon)

July 30th and August 6th

9:00 am–12:00 noon
Tutorial: “Generalized Additive Mixed Models for Linguistic Data”
Harald Baayen (University of Tuebingen)

July 30th

10:30 am–12:00 noon
Book Talk: “We Do the Talking: Language Production, not Language Knowledge or Comprehension, is Uniquely Human”
Maryellen MacDonald (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

July 30

12:00 noon – 1:00 pm
Mentoring session: PUMP (pop-up mentoring program)
Organizers: Hadas Kotek (Apple/MIT), Melissa Baese-Berk (University of Chicago)

July 30th

2:00–5:00 pm
Tutorial: “Bayesian regression for linguistics: Applications, misconceptions and best practices”
Natalia Levshina (Radboud University)

August 6th

2:00–5:00 pm
Workshop: “National Science Foundation Funding for Linguistics Research”
Rachel M. Theodore (National Science Foundation Program Director for Linguistics)