Organized by the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication! (ACLC) Speaker: Sonja Riesberg Location: P.C. Hoofthuis Room: 5.60 Title: Word order and discourse prominence in western Austronesian symmetrical voice languages Abstract: the abstract can be found here.

Organized by the UvA Data Science Centre! For more information on the event, click here. Click here to register! Registration is free and everyone (UvA and non-UvA) is welcome to join! How does data science inform environmental policy? Why is it important that we value research outputs in a future-proof way? And how can we … Continue reading UvA Data Science Centre | The Societal Impact of AI & Data Science →

Organized by the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication! (ACLC) Speaker: Astrid De Wit Location: P.C. Hoofthuis Room: 3.08 Title: The present perfective paradox across languages Abstract: This talk starts from the observation that, in many genetically and geographically unrelated languages, there is a remarkable restriction on the use of the present tense to refer … Continue reading ACLC Seminar | Astrid De Wit: The present perfective paradox across languages →

Organized by the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication! (ACLC) Speaker: Ivan Yuen Location: P.C. Hoofthuis Room: 5.60 Title: The effect of predictability on the duration of phrase-final syllables and pause Abstract: The abstract can be found here.

Registration is open, click here to reserve your spot! Organized by Cognito! CogniTalks is an annual event organized by the student union Cognito of the University of Amsterdam. The event consists of several outstanding neuroscientists who will be sharing their inspiring and relevant research during a 15-minute-talk, covering topics from the biology of language to human … Continue reading Cognitalks: Neuroscience, Cognition, and Beyond! →

Organized by the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication! (ACLC) Speaker: Hielke Vriesendorp Location: P.C. Hoofthuis Room: 1.15 Title: Exemplars vs. allophones: the role of lexical frequency and listener experience in sociolinguistic processing Abstract: Do we recognise a Northern English speaker saying ‘way’ as Northern because we have memories of other times we’ve heard Northern speakers … Continue reading ACLC Seminar | Hielke Vriesendorp: Exemplars vs. allophones: the role of lexical frequency and listener experience in sociolinguistic processing →

Organized by the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication! (ACLC) Speaker: Markus Steinbach Location: P.C. Hoofthuis Room: 5.59 Title: Is there anything special about special signs? A cross-modal study of a special class of parts of speech in spoken and sign languages Abstract: A special class of lexical items frequently used in many different signs … Continue reading ACLC Seminar | Markus Steinbach: Is there anything special about special signs? A cross-modal study of a special class of parts of speech in spoken and sign languages →

Organized by the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication! (ACLC) Speaker: Eva van Lier Location: P.C. Hoofthuis Room: 3.01 Title: Alternation in argument coding across languages: lexical and other factors Abstract: In this talk, we give an overview of the research carried out so far in our Vidi project ‘Exceptions rule! Lexical restrictions on grammatical … Continue reading ACLC Seminar | Eva van Lier: Alternation in argument coding across languages: lexical and other factors →

Organized by the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication! (ACLC) Speaker: Tineke Snijders Location: PC Hoofthuis Room: 5.60 Title: Neural tracking of speech in infants and their later language development Abstract: Neuronal groups in the brain process information in a rhythmical way, and can also track the speech rhythm. Using EEG, the coherence between the … Continue reading ACLC Seminar | Tineke Snijders: Neural tracking of speech in infants and their later language development →

Organized by the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication! (ACLC) Speaker: Lauren Fonteyn (Meertens Instituut) Location: P.C. Hoofthuis Room: 1.15 Title: Methods of semi-automatic data annotation with contextualized word embeddings Abstract: In corpus linguistics, the collection and annotation of data commonly involve a relatively balanced combination of computer-aided and manual labour. It is still common practice, … Continue reading ACLC Seminar | Lauren Fonteyn: Methods of semi-automatic data annotation with contextualized word embeddings →

Organized by the Amsterdam Brain and Cognition! (ABC) Speaker: Sabine Kastner Location: Science Park 904 Room: SP C0.110 Title: Neural dynamics of the primate attention network Abstract: The selection of information from our cluttered sensory environments is one of the most fundamental cognitive operations performed by the primate brain. In the visual domain, the selection … Continue reading ABC Lecture | Sabine Kastner: Neural dynamics of the primate attention network →

Organized by the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication! (ACLC) Speaker: Odette Scharenborg Location: P.C. Hoofthuis Room: 1.15 Title: Inclusive automatic speech recognition: Quantifying and mitigating bias in automatic speech recognisers Abstract: Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is increasingly used, e.g., in emergency response centers, domestic voice assistants, and search engines. Because of the paramount relevance … Continue reading ACLC Seminar | Odette Scharenborg: Inclusive automatic speech recognition: Quantifying and mitigating bias in automatic speech recognisers →