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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 nine times per year, once per month except in 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 2011

Program 2012

Colloquium series in previous years

Program 2010

Program 2009

Manfred Krifka, February 21

Modality (and Tense) in Daakie (Austronesian, Vanuatu)

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Barbara Kaup, June 21

The experiential-simulation view of language comprehension: How is meaning composed?

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Sven Mattys, May 17

Penetrability of the speech system by cognitive load

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D. Robert Ladd, April 19

Gradience in linguistic and psycholinguistic perspective

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Dianne Newbury, March 15

Genetic investigations of speech and language disorders

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Östen Dahl, February 15

The structure of human memory and tense-aspect-mood-evidentiality (TAME)

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Anne-Lise Giraud, January 18

Ideas about the role of cortical oscillations in speech and language

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