about

CogNetwork is an interdisciplinary weekly forum focused on discussing ongoing research in language and cognition; both theoretical and experimental approaches are welcomed.

It features presentations of works in progress by members of the UC Berkeley Linguistics Department and other campus departments as well as invited visitors.

A major goal of the forum is to foster cross-department and cross-disciplinary communication and contact.

when & where

Wednesdays 1:00-2:30

2308 Tolman

contact information

Contact

Please email one of the organizers for more information.

Organizer

Ozge Ugurlu

Previous Organizers

Oana David Elise Stickles

additional links

UC Berkeley Linguistics UC Berkeley Psychology International Computer Science Institute Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences

September 10, 2014

Till Bergmann (UC Merced Cognitive and Information Sciences)
(website)
Observing Fictive Motion in the Wild (abstract)

September 17, 2014

Kevin Ezra Moore (SJSU)
The primary-metaphor components and generic structure of Moving Ego and Moving Time (abstract)

September 24, 2014

Alex Paxton (UC Merced Cognitive and Information Sciences)
Here for an argument: Conflict in laboratory and real-world settings (abstract)

October 1, 2014

Katie Sardinha (UC Berkeley Linguistics)
Semantic Fieldwork on Cognitive State and Process Terms (abstract)

October 8, 2014

Katrien Beuls (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
(website)
Computational Construction Grammar for Speech (abstract)

October 15, 2014

No meeting this week

October 22, 2014

Rick Dale (UC Merced Cognitive and Information Sciences)
(website)
Languages as Adaptive Systems (abstract)

October 29, 2014

CSDL practice talks
1229 Dwinelle, 11:30-3pm

Oana David: Frame metonymy and definite null instantiation in ECG
Elise Stickles, Ellen Dodge, & Jisup Hong: A construction-driven MetaNet approach to corpus metaphor analysis
Karie Moorman: Polyfunctionality of -ara: analyzing metonymy and metaphor in Karuk
Matt Goss: A blending analysis of the English get-passive
Eve Sweetser, Oana David, Seiko Fujii, & Paula Radetsky: CUT/BREAK verbs in verb-particle constructions
André Coneglian & Maria Helena de Moura Neves: Fuzzy grammar and the categorization of adverbial relations

November 5, 2014

No meeting this week

November 12, 2014

Drew Abney (UC Merced Cognitive and Information Sciences)
(website)
Complexity matching across conversational settings (abstract)

November 19, 2014

Ulla Kleinberger (Universität Zürich)
(website)
The Connecting Functions of Phrasemes in Texts (abstract)

November 26, 2014

No meeting this week - Thanksgiving holiday

December 3, 2014

Sean Trott (ICSI)
Domain-Specific Applications of Embodied Construction Grammar (abstract)

December 10, 2014

André Coneglian (Mackenzie Presbyterian University; FAPESP)
Causal and concessive adverbial subordinators in Brazilian Portuguese (abstract)