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Refereed talks

  • (with Suzanne Stevenson) `Perceptual, Conceptual, and Frequency Effects on Error Patterns in English Color Term Acquisition’. Talk given at the Sixth Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning. Lisbon, Portugal (18 September 2015)
  • (with Suzanne Stevenson) `Crowdsourcing Elicitation Data for Semantic Typologies’. Poster presented at the thirty-seventh international Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Pasadena, CA (24 July 2015).
  • `A Usage-Based Model of Early Grammatical Development’. Talk given at the sixth bi-annual Belgian-Dutch Cognitive Linguistics Days. Ghent, Belgium (12 December 2014)
  • (with Afsaneh Fazly and Suzanne Stevenson). `Learning Meaning without Primitives: Typology Predicts Developmental Patterns’. Talk given at the thirty-sixth international Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Quebec City, Canada (25 July 2014).
  • (with Rens Bod, Afsaneh Fazly, Suzanne Stevenson and Arie Verhagen). `A Usage-Based Model of Early Grammatical Development’. Talk given at the workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (26 June 2014).
  • (with Afsaneh Fazly, Aida Nematzadeh and Suzanne Stevenson) `Word Learning in the Wild: What Natural Data Can Tell Us’. Poster presented at the thirty-fifth international Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Berlin, Germany (2 August 2013).
  • (with Max van Duijn) `Packaged and Ready-to-Go: Linguistic Tools for Communication and Mental Processing.‘ Talk given at the thirteenth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Edmonton, Canada (28 June 2013)
  • (with Afsaneh Fazly, Aida Nematzadeh and Suzanne Stevenson) `Learning relational meanings from situated caregiver-child interaction. A computational approach’. Talk given at the thirteenth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Edmonton, Canada. (25 June 2013).
  • (with Max van Duijn). `Kinship terms as tools for thinking.‘ Poster presented at the European Human Behavior and Evolution Association (March 24-27, 2013).
  • (with Max van Duijn). Gereedschap voor de geest: Hoe verwantschapstermen ons denkvermogen vergroten' (Tools for thought: How kinship terms enhance our thinking capacity’). Talk given at the TIN-dag (Linguistics in the Netherlands conference). (February 9, 2013).
  • (with Afsaneh Fazly, Aida Nematzadeh and Suzanne Stevenson) `Referenti\“ele onzekerheid, computermodellen en semantische kindertaalcorpora.‘ Talk given at the TIN-dag (Linguistics in the Netherlands conference). (February 9, 2013).
  • (with Afsaneh Fazly, Aida Nematzadeh and Suzanne Stevenson) `Modelling the acquisition of lexical meaning from caregiver-child interaction Getting the semantics straight.‘ Talk given at the Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands conference (January 18, 2013).
  • Hoe leer je een grammatica uit voorbeelden? Een computationele benadering.' (How do you learn a grammar from examples? A computational approach.‘) Talk given at the fifth bi-annual Belgian-Dutch Cognitive Linguistics Days. Groningen, the Netherlands (December 15, 2012).
  • `The emergent constructicon. A computational take.‘ Talk given at the workshop The construction grammar of Dutch. Leiden, the Netherlands (March 26, 2011).
  • Abstractie en grammaticale kennis.' (Abstraction and grammatical knowledge’). Talk given at the fourth bi-annual Belgian-Dutch Cognitive Linguistics Days. Antwerp, Belgium (December 18, 2010).
  • (With Folgert Karsdorp) De rol van abstractie bij categorisatie: Het modelleren van de Nederlandse superlatiefalternantie.' (The role of abstraction in categorization: modelling the Dutch superlative alternation’). Talk given at the TIN-dag (Linguistics in the Netherlands conference) (February 6, 2010).
  • (With Folgert Karsdorp) Regelmaat in een regelloos systeem: de Nederlandse superlatief'. (Regularity in a rule-less system: the Dutch superlative’). Talk given at the Nederlandse morfologiedagen' (Dutch morphology days’) at the Universit\‘e de Li`ege (December 12, 2009).
  • (With Folgert Karsdorp) Regularity in a rule-less system. The case of Dutch superlatives'. Talk given at the conferenceIrregularity in Morphology and Beyond’ at the University of Bremen (October 6, 2009).
  • Een functionele verkenning van de onpersoonlijke complementatieconstructie' (A functional exploration of the impersonal complementation construction’). Talk given at the students’ congress Werk in uitvoering of the Institut f\“ur Deutsche und Niederl"andische Philologie at the Free University Berlin. (May 23, 2008)

Invited talks

  • `Errors in word meaning acquisition as explained by semantic typology and computational modeling’. Talk given at the UCSB Linguistics colloquium (March 10, 2016)
  • V1-bijzinnen. Verbonden in vorm, verdeeld in functie'. (Verb-first conditionals. Connected in form, divided in function’) Talk given at the annual \textit{Dag van de Nederlandse Zinsbouw} (Day of Dutch Syntax; 28 November 2014)
    • `Kids say the darndest things’. Introduction to the SMART-cognitive science lecture of Charles Yang (12 September 2014)
    • `Dimensionality reduction and linguistics’. Talk/tutorial given at an informal workshop for typological linguists at the University of Amsterdam (28 August 2014).
    • `The acquisition of lexical meaning. A plea for naturalism’. Talk given at the Lorentz institute workshop Modeling Meets Infant Studies (12 September 2013)

Local talks

- `Constructions emerging. Modeling early grammatical
  production'. Talk given at the Language and Cognition Group,
  Leiden University (April 10, 2014).
- Learning Meaning without Primitives. Typology Predicts
  Developmental Patterns. Talk given at the Computer Linguistic
  Seminar, University of Amsterdam (March 12, 2014).
- `What can we learn from bound learners?' Talk given at the
  workshop `Learnability and Computational Models of Language
  Acquisition', University of Amsterdam. (11 March 2013)
- `What can we learn from bounded learners?' Talk given at the
  Leiden University Linguistics PhD students' discussion group (27
  March 2013).
- (with Afsaneh Fazly, Aida Nematzadeh and Suzanne Stevenson)
  `Learning relational meanings from situated caregiver-child
  interaction A computational approach' Talk given at the regular
  talks of Computational Linguistics at the University of
  Toronto. (13 November 2012)
- `Simulating the acquisition of grammar. The extraction of
  structure.' Talk given at the Language and Cognition Group
  meetings, Leiden University (December 9, 2010).
- `On abstraction in Construction Grammar. An exercise in
  methodology. Talk given at the Computer Linguistic Seminar,
  University of Amsterdam (October 20, 2010).
- `Dutch Verb-First Conditionals'. Talk given at the
  mini-symposium `Usage-Based Approaches to Languages' at the
  University of California, Los Angeles (November 5, 2008).
- `Dutch Verb-First Conditionals'. Talk given at the visiting
  scholars' talks at the University of California, Santa Barbara
  (November 24, 2008).
- `Onderzoek naar demonstrativa. Stand van zaken en toekomst'
  (`Research on demonstratives. Status quo and future'). Talk
  given at the Scriptiepraatjes (`Thesis talks') of the department
  of Dutch Language and Culture at Leiden University (November 6,
  2007).