The 56th Language Lunch Date: 2017-02-16 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Individual differences in perspective taking: inhibition and switching across the lifespan Madeleine,Long; None; None Work on the role of executive functions (EF) in regulating communicative perspective taking has primarily focused on inhibitory control in younger adults, the results of which are mixed. Less consideration hasContinue reading The 56th Language Lunch

The 55th Language Lunch Date: 2016-12-01 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum The space of possible grammars revisited Patrik,Austin; Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki; None How linguistic variation is limited is one of the basic questions of syntactic theory. The prevalent paradigms concerning the amplitude of possibility were delineated in the 20th century when ChomskyContinue reading The 55th Language Lunch

The 54th Language Lunch Date: 2016-10-20 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Variation of adjective placement in complex noun phrases in Italian Kristina,Gulordava; None; None Romance languages show a substantial degree of variation in prenominal versus postnominal adjective placement. In particular, the semantic differences between prenominal and postnominal adjectives has been studied extensively, both in theoretical andContinue reading The 54th Language Lunch

The 53rd Language Lunch Date: 2016-06-16 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Document Embeddings with Context Sampling Stefanos,Angelidis; None; None The Paragraph Vector model has been recently proposed as a method for learning low-dimensional representations of multi-sentence documents. As with most embedding models, it relies on a proximity context to associate co-occurring words, while jointly learning embeddingsContinue reading The 53rd Language Lunch

The 50th Language Lunch Date: 2015-12-10 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Northern Arizona: Sound Change and Dialect Contact Lauren,Hall-Lew; LEL; Lauren.Hall-Lew@ed.ac.uk Mirjam,Eiswirth; PPLS; s1322502@sms.ed.ac.uk Mary-Caitlyn,Valentinsson; None; None William,Cotter; None; None This poster reports on the English short-a ‘nasal split’ in progress in Northern Arizona. Two subsets of acoustic data from 2002 were analyzed for social predictorsContinue reading The 50th Language Lunch

The 48th Language Lunch Date: 2015-06-11 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Are Comprehension-Elicited Lexical Predictions Specified at a Phonological Level within the Speech Production System? Eleanor,Drake; PPLS; e.k.e.drake@sms.ed.ac.uk The generation of comprehension-induced predictions affects both the timing and articulatory realization of spoken output (e.g., Drake, Schaeffler, & Corley, 2014). The current study investigates whether these effectsContinue reading The 48th Language Lunch

The 47th Language Lunch Date: 2015-04-30 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum An fMRI study of semantic diversity effects upon the semantic network Ellise,Suffill; None; None Semantic diversity in language has been found to increase processing costs on both a behavioural (RT) and neural basis, reflecting diversity within the mental representation required to process a concept, orContinue reading The 47th Language Lunch

The 46th Language Lunch Date: 2015-02-19 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum The source of ‘said’, the overlooked English determiner Brett,Reynolds; None; None Dictionaries almost universally list said as an adjective in cases like a true copy of (the) said document, and the fact that the is optional or even redundant for some speakers is broadly overlooked.Continue reading The 46th Language Lunch

The 45th Language Lunch Date: 2014-11-24 Location: Mini Forum 2, Informatics Forum An investigation of the application of dynamic sinusoidal models to statistical parametric speech synthesis Qiong,Hu; None; None This paper applies a dynamic sinusoidal synthesis model to statistical parametric speech synthesis (HTS). For this, we utilise regularised cepstral coefficients to represent both the staticContinue reading The 45th Language Lunch

The 44th Language Lunch Date: 2014-10-13 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Chinese Poetry Generation with Recurrent Neural Networks Xingxing,Zhang; None; None We propose a model for Chinese poem generation based on recurrent neural networks which we argue is ideally suited to capturing poetic content and form. Our generator jointly performs content selection (“what to say”) andContinue reading The 44th Language Lunch