Friday, May 4

 9:30AM Coffee

10:00AM Richard Futrell, MIT/UCI, Information locality: An information-theoretic principle of natural language word order

11:00AM Masha Fedzechkina, University of Arizona, Human information processing shapes language change

12:00PM Discussion

12:30PM Lunch Break

2:00PM Kyle Gorman, Google Inc, Linguistic insights in text normalization

3:00PM Michael Frank, Stanford University, Variability and consistency in early language learning: The Wordbank project

4:00PM Discussion

Saturday, May 5

9:30AM Coffee

10:00AM Emily Morgan, UC Davis, Generative and item-specific knowledge in language processing

11:00AM Timothy O'Donnell, McGill University, Algorithmic program synthesis of morphophonological rules

12:00PM Discussion

12:30PM Lunch Break

2:00PM Judith Degen, Stanford University, Rethinking 'overinformativeness' as rationally redundant reference

3:00PM Roger Levy, MIT, Gender bias in preferred linguistic descriptions for expected events

4:00PM Discussion