The Department of Linguistics Winter 2019 Colloquium Series continues March 15 with a presentation by Linguistics Professor Colin Phillips of the University of Maryland. Professor Phillips is Director of the Maryland Language Science Center and Associate Director of the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program. He will present “The Relationship between Speaking and Understanding." Light refreshments will be served. All are welcome!

ABSTRACT
The Relationship between Speaking and Understanding

Language comprehension, language production, and grammatical analysis are typically pursued relatively independently of one another. We have long been interested in the relation between parsing and grammar, but have neglected mechanisms for production. If we cannot unify mechanisms for speaking and understanding, then unifying grammatical computation with either of them is likely fruitless. I will discuss the progress that we have made on understanding these issues.