Cognitive Science series

Dr. D. Terence Langendoen

Dr. D. Terence Langendoen, a professor in the department of linguistics at the University of Arizona , will give the third lecture in March for the new Cognitive Science weekly lecture series, hosted by the Linguistics Department.

Langendoen will speak on "The Representation of (Some Grammatical) Knowledge" at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 18. He will address the question "How do we know what we know?"

March speakers from Fresno State are: March 4, Walter Read, Computer Science; March 11, William Lewis, Linguistics; March 25 Ojoung Kwon, Information Systems. All lectures will be in Science 147 from 6:30 to 9:20 p.m.

Cognitive Science is an interdisciplinary area of study focusing on cognition: How we think about and perceive the world, the nature of thought itself and how we can model the ways in which we think or perceive.

Langendoen is currently a professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

He has published in all areas of linguistics, including formal grammar theory, syntax, semantics, sentence processing, phonology (including a seminal edited text on Optimality Theory), the history of linguistics, computational linguistics, and the morphology and syntax of various languages (English, Mundari, Chinese and Yaqui).

Cognitive Science lecture schedule (subject to change)

For more information contact William Lewis in the Linguistics Department at 8-2441.