The Logic of Pronominal Resumption by Dr. Ash Asudeh has been published by the Oxford University Press.
This book is a cross-linguistic investigation of resumptive pronouns and related resumption phenomena. The author proposes a new theory of resumption based on the use of a resource logic for semantic composition and the typologically robust observation that resumptive pronouns are ordinary pronouns in their morphological and lexical properties.
You can find out more about the book on Amazon.
Steph and Gianluca are looking for participants for an online experiment. To participate in the experiment you must be an English native speaker with a computer (on which you are probably already reading this message) and (no more than) 15 minutes. Just click on one of the two links below and follow the online instructions. You will be asked to watch some short video clips and to answer some short questions about the videos.
http://xerxes.carleton.ca/~giorgolo/e1.php
And if you know anyone who could be interested just point them here or directly to the experiment.
Thanks in advance for your collaboration!
LLI member Gianluca Giorgolo gave us an update on what he’s been up to this summer.
1. “Gestures explained without (too much) handwaving”, DIP Colloquium, April 29, 2011.
The DIP is a bi-weekly colloquium of the Logic and Language group at the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation, University of Amsterdam (from their website). In this talk, I presented the more formal and logically related aspects of my work on the semantic interaction between verbal language and hand gestures. The best comment from the audience was: “At first I thought that it was just a joke, but I see that there is something to it”.
2. Guest lecture for the “Ethnolinguistics” course at Universita’ degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (I got my bachelor from this university), May 3, 2011.
I was asked to give a general introduction to the study of co-speech gestures and more specifically to my work on the topic.
3. Presentation for the Embots group (Embodied Agents research group) http://embots.dfki.de/, May 13, 2011.
The Embots group is doing very interesting work on building animated 3D agents and collecting large amount of annotated data about spontaneous gestures and sign languages. I visited them to discuss a possible collaboration. I gave a presentation of my work and got some really interesting comments on it.
4. “A formal framework for the integration of gesture and verbal language”, GW 2011: The 9th International Gesture Workshop
Gesture in Embodied Communication and Human-Computer Interaction, May 26, 2011.The International Gesture Workshop is an interdisciplinary event, where researchers interested in understanding gesture and using it for human-computer interaction meet to present and exchange their ideas and newest research (taken from the workshop website). At the workshop I presented the general framework for speech and gesture I worked on during my PhD. It was one of the few theoretical presentations at the conference.
Some LLIers went for a hike in the Gatineau Hills this past weekend. Liz Christie took this picture of the Québec countryside.
A view of Québec from the Gatineau Hills.
LLI student, Liz Christie, presented at the Annual Canadian Linguistics Association Conference last week. She has returned to Ottawa (by way of Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! — seriously!) and she took this picture for us. Congratulations!
Liz Christie at CLA conference.
PhD student and LLI member, Liz Christie, is slated to present at the Annual Canadian Linguistics Association Conference as part of Congress 2011 of the Humanities and Social Sciences in New Brunkswick! Her talk is titled “Investigating the differences between the English way-construction and the fake reflexive resultative construction”.
On April 21, 2011, the Cognitive Science Spring Conference was held at Carleton University. The organizers Ash Asudeh and Ida Toivonen did an excellent job organizing the conference, including getting the keynote speaker Matthew Stone, organizing the printing for the LLI’s students posters, and a post-conference party!
A quarter of the posters were by LLI students! You can view the program here.
Crystal Bruce & Stephanie Needham
Liz Christie
Deirdre Gardiner
Marzieh Mortazavinia
The Institute of Cognitive Science hosts an annual spring conference, which features a keynote speaker and posters by graduate students in ICS.
This year’s conference takes place on April 21st, 2011.
The keynote speaker is Matthew Stone (CS, Rutgers University). The conference website is here.
All are welcome!
The Logic, Language & Information Lab at the Institute of Cognitive Science, Carleton University, supports foundational research in cognitive science, with an emphasis on formal and experimental linguistics.
Address
LLI Lab, 2222 Dunton Tower, Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6
Current associated faculty
Ash Asudeh
Lev Blumenfeld
Masako Hirotani
Raj Singh
Ida Toivonen
Andre Vellino
Current postdoctoral fellow
Gianluca Giorgolo
Current associated students
Crystal Bruce
Elizabeth Christie
Janine Fitzpatrick
Deirdre Gardiner
Tabish Ismail
Hana Rae Lang
Marzieh Mortazavinia
Stephanie Needham
Shannon Pertl
Daniel Sachs
