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MPI colloquium series

The formal colloquium series is the main ongoing lecture series for speakers from outside the Institute, and is intended to be of interest to members of the entire Institute. Formal colloquia take place eight times per year, once per month except in January, July, August, and December. Formal colloquium speakers are well known in their fields, and work in a variety of areas of interest to members of the Institute, such as language production, language perception, first and second language acquisition, formal linguistics, phonology, neurocognition of language, language and cognition, and linguistic anthropology. Formal colloquia are open to the public, and are often attended by members of the psycholinguistics community from outside the Institute. The colloquia always begin at 3:45 PM, and are most often held on the third Tuesday of the month in room 163 of the Institute. Colloquia are followed by a reception at the Institute, and then by a dinner with the speaker. For further information about formal colloquia, contact Dan Acheson ( ), current member of the colloquium committee.

Titles and exact dates of later speakers will be announced as they become available. All colloquia begin at 3:45 PM, and are held in Room 163 of the Institute.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, lectures can be canceled at short notice. It is therefore advisable to confirm dates by telephone: +31 24 352 1911.

Program 2013

Tuesday, February 19
Rens Bod
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam
How hierarchical is language?

Tuesday, March 19
Jeffrey Lidz
Dept. of Linguistics, University of Maryland
The Representational Basis of Statistical Learning in Natural Language

Tuesday, April 16
Herbert H. Clark
Department of Psychology, Stanford University
Depicting as part of spontaneous communication
Location: MPI, room 163

Tuesday, May 21
Martin Corley

University of Edinburg
Disfluency in Speech: The Listener's Perspective

Location: MPI, room 163

Monday, June 3
Gary Dell

Department of Psychology, University of Illinois
Location: MPI, room 163
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Tuesday, September 17
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Tuesday, October 15
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Tuesday, November 19
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The name of the speaker and the title of the abstract will be announced as soon as possible.

Colloquium series in previous years

Program 2012

Program 2011

Program 2010

Program 2009

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