October 2020
52nd Algonquian Conference
UW-Madison will be hosting the 52nd Algonquian Conference October 23-25, 2020, virtually, of course. Program and registration details are available at the website. Registration is free for UW-Madison students, and is available for $10-40 for…
Find out more »Linguistics Fridays: Jacobson – Form and Content
On the relationship between form and information content Cassandra Jacobs, UW-Madison Research Associate in Psychology Zipf (1949) famously demonstrated that longer words are typically less frequent. However, more recent work has suggested that word frequency…
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Linguistics Fridays: Koranda – Word selection and recent utterances
The probability of saying a word depends on form properties of recent utterances Mark Koranda, UW-Madison Graduate Student, Psychology
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