Call for papers
The 2022 Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal Semantics Workshop (TOM 14) will be
hosted by the Department of Cognitive Science at Carleton University on May 28, 2022. The workshop will be held online via Zoom, is free to attend, and serves as a friendly forum where students can share their research. We invite the submission of abstracts on any topic in semantics and its interfaces.
Talks will be 20 minutes long with 10 minutes for questions. Abstracts
should be maximum one-page in length, with at least one-inch margins and 12 point font (Times or equivalent), and should indicate whether they
should be considered for a talk, a poster, or both.
Abstracts are due on May 6th and authors will be notified of
acceptance by May 13th.
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Please submit your abstract to the contact in your area:
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Toronto: Michela Ippolito (michela.ippolito@utoronto.ca)
Montreal: Bernhard Schwarz (bernhard.schwarz@mcgill.ca)
Ottawa: Raj Singh (raj.singh@carleton.ca)
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For general inquiries, please reach out to:
Program
9:00 – 10:00 am
Neglect-zero effects at the semantics-pragmatics interface
Dr. Maria Aloni, University of Amsterdam
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Dr. Aloni is a Professor at the University of Amsterdam's Institute for Logic, Language and Computation. Broadly interested in formal semantics and pragmatics, philosophical logic, and philosophy of language, Dr. Aloni's current work focuses on how human reasoning deviates from formal logical-mathematical reasoning.
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10:00 – 10:15 am
Break
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10:15 – 10:45 am
Crystal Chen & Michela Ippolito, University of Toronto
10:45 – 11:15 am
Lexical Semantics for Expressives
Gaurav Kamath, McGill University
11:15 am – 12:45 pm
Lunch Break & Poster Session
12:45 – 1:15 pm
Determiner Quantifiers: Differences Between Native and Non-native Speakers of English
Taeko Bourque, Lara Russo, & Ashley Promislow, Carleton University
1:15 – 1:45 pm
Syntactic freezing as semantic matching: licensing syntactic deviation in echo questions
Jing Ji, McGill University
1:45 – 2:00 pm
Break
2:00 – 3:00 pm
Dr. Ai Taniguchi, University of Toronto
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Dr. Taniguchi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Language Studies at the University of Toronto. Their research and teaching interests span formal semantics and pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and pedagogy, including the use of technology and public outreach in linguistics.
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https://aitaniguchi.github.io/
3:00 – 3:15 pm
Business Meeting
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Poster Session
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*Note: posters should be at least 1000px by 600px, and use high quality images for easier viewing. Please submit a png or pdf version of your poster image to tom14ottawa@gmail.com by end of day on May 26th, as we will be providing download links for each poster. If you have any formatting questions, do not hesitate to reach out via the above email.
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Room 1: Lounge
Room 2: Does a Neural Network Language Model Understand De Re / De Dicto Ambiguities?
Gaurav Kamath & Laurestine Bradford, McGill University
Room 3: Comparisons of two right peripheral phenomena in German
Jasper Jian & Liam Rinehart, McGill University
Room 4: Navigating theories of the meanings of each, every, and all
Chester Leopold, Carleton University
Room 5: Reducing barriers to data access with machine translation
Sean Riley, Deniz Askin, & Raj Singh, Carleton University