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The Linguistics and Cognitive Science Department at Pomona College offers a multidisciplinary approach to the study of language and mind integrating ...
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2007 Senior Thesis Awards (click on thesis title to download a PDF of the thesis)

John Purvis Prize for best Cognitive Science thesis:
Stephen Conn, Critiquing Findings of Depressive Realism in Contingency Judgment Tasks: Examining the Effects of Outcome Density and Response Rate

Glass Linguistics Prize for best Linguistics thesis:
Hannah Pick, Mexican-American Chicago English (MACE): A case study of four speakers

Announcements

•Sharon Inkelas
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Public lecture: "On (Un)Naturalness in Child Phonology"
Monday March 31st 2008, 4:15PM Smith 208

Colloquium: "The Morphology-Phonology Connection: A Case for Cophonologies"
Tuesday April 1st 2008, 4:15PM Edmunds 217

•Edwin Williams
Public lecture: "You Didn't Hear It From Me"
Monday January 28th 2008, 4:15PM Hahn 101

Colloquium: "Derivational Prefixes Are Projective, Not Realizational"
Tuesday January 29th 2008, 4:15PM Edmunds 217

•Geoffrey K. Pullum
Modeling Human and Non-Human Languages
Monday April 16th 2007, 7:00PM SCC 208
Colloquium: The Elusive Concept of Sytematicity
Tuesday April 17th 2007, 12:00PM
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•We've moved! The department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science is now located in the new Lincoln and Edmunds buildings at 185 E. 6th St.

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•"How is the Mind Prepared to Learn Language" Symposium, March 31 2006
Elissa Newport, Steven Crain, Susan Goldin-Meadow
Sponsored by The Hart Institute for American History
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•John Searle, 4 pm March 1 2006
"Cognitive Science as Applied Philosophy" Rose Hills Theater.
Sponsored by The Hart Institute for American History

•Jerry Fodor
 7pm Nov 15 2005 "What We Still Don't Understand about Cognition"
 4pm Nov 16 2005 "Current Views About Concepts"
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•"Asserting, Meaning, and Implying" A conference in Linguistics and Philosophy in honor of Jay D. Atlas. Click for more information.