In Psycholinguistics Workshop, Caroline Andrews is leading a discussion of recent work in the ACT-R framework.

Andrew Murphy will give a talk this Friday in Syntax Workshop, which meets in N458 at 2:15. The title of his talk is “Cumulativity and Opacity in Syntactic Derivations: Arguments for Weighted Constraints.”

UMass is hosting the third meeting of the American International Morphology Meeting this weekend. The meeting starts this Friday, October 2, with a tutorial from 2:30 to 5:30 on Building digital resources by Kie Zuraw and Matt Wagers. The talks start on Saturday at 9:00 and the conference ends on Sunday. UMass is represented by Hsin-Lun Huang who will be giving the paper “Argument structure and causatively in Mandarin resultatives”, Kristine Yu who will be giving the paper “Tonal marking of absolutive case in Samoan.” and Jaieun Kim who will be jointly presenting “Locality in Suppletive Allomorphy of ?GIVE in Korean.” For more information, go here.

Gaja Jarosz will present a practice talk for AMP in rm. N451 at 4 p.m. Thursday to the phonology grant group.

Wendell Kimper will present a practice talk for AMP in Sound Workshop Friday at 1:15. Optional background reading is here (Moreton and Pater 2012 Part II).

Wednesday 9/30 at 12:20, the Semantics Workshop will feature a talk by Daniel Altshuler (Hampshire), titled “Does Viewpoint Aspect Make Reference to Time?”

All interested graduate students and faculty are welcome to attend the CogSci planning mixer at 5 pm at the ABC.

In the meeting at 4 pm in rm N451, Brian Dillon and John Kingston will present planned experiments for feedback.

The second meeting of the weekly SpectroLunch meets this Friday at 11am in N400. SpectroLunch is a venue in which participants practice spectrogram reading and WHISC has learned that this week’s meeting will feature “Peggy’s Animals pt. 2.”