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Language & Cognition (LangCog)

Hosted by Psychology Language Development Labs (Snedeker Lab & Bergelson Lab), Meaning and Modality Lab (Davidson Lab)

Tuesdays, 5:30 – 7:00 pm ET in William James Hall 1550 (Harvard University)

Supported by Mind Brain Behavior Interfaculty Initiative

Fall 2025 Schedule

DateSpeaker and Talk TitleLocationAbstract
Sep 9picnic, no speakerWJH courtyard
Sep 16Thomas Clark
A Model of Incremental and Approximate Noisy-Channel Language Processing
WJH 1550Available
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Sep 23Wednesday Bushong
How do listeners represent linguistic information during real-time processing?
WJH 1550Available
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Sep 30Ethan Wilcox
Informational Overlap between Linguistic Channels: Prosody as a Case Study
WJH 601
(different from usual)
Available
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Oct 7Ryan O’Leary
Flexibility and limits of spoken language comprehension under perceptual challenge
WJH 1550Available
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Oct 14Meredith Rowe
The Importance of Decontextualized Conversations for Preschool Children’s Language and Cognitive Development
WJH 1550Available
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Oct 21Sophie Hao
Towards a Linguistics of Large Language Models
WJH 1550Available
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Oct 28Dorothy Ahn
Reference Makers in Discourse
WJH 1550Available
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Nov 4Joseph Coffey
Mapping the global geography of childhood conversation
WJH 1550Available
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Nov 11Ankana SahaWJH 1550
Nov 18Zhenghan QiWJH 1550
Nov 25Thanksgiving, no speaker
Dec 2Viola SchmittWJH 1550

Talks in Fall 2025