The Forum lectures are plenary talks of
general linguistic interest given by major figures in linguistics and allied disciplines.
Where: MUEN E050 (Muenzinger Auditorium)
When: 7:00pm
Three Forum lectures will be held during the 2011 Institute. The 2011 Institute Forum lectures
will be given by the following scholars:
Tuesday, July 12
Kathryn Bock,
Department of Psychology and the Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
'Syntactically Speaking'
Thursday, July 14
Michael Collins,
Department of Computer Science, Columbia University
'Statistical Models for Natural Language Parsing'
Thursday, July 21
Terrence Deacon,
Program in Biological Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
'Language Origins: What Co-evolved, what De-volved, and what's Universal'