{"id":15199,"date":"2022-11-28T06:21:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T11:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=15199"},"modified":"2022-11-22T16:30:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T21:30:48","slug":"hungry-wugs-11-30-giorgio-magri-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2022\/11\/28\/hungry-wugs-11-30-giorgio-magri-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungry Wugs (11\/30) - Giorgio Magri (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Hungry Wugs is an undergraduate discussion group aimed to connect linguistics undergraduates and prospective students with the research going on in our department and broadly, in the field of linguistics, in an accessible way. They have an event this week:\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><span class=\"ContentPasted0 elementToProof\"><b>Hungry Wugs discussion group<\/b><br clear='none'\/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><span class=\"ContentPasted0 elementToProof\">Date\/time: Nov 30, Wednesday, 6pm<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><span class=\"ContentPasted0 elementToProof\">Location: 32-D461<br clear='none'\/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><span class=\"ContentPasted0 elementToProof\">Although it is aimed to be accessible to undergraduates, the talk is open to everyone. <br clear='none'\/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><span class=\"ContentPasted0 elementToProof\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><span class=\"ContentPasted0 elementToProof\">Our presenter this week is Prof. Giorgio Magri.<br clear='none'\/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><span class=\"ContentPasted0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><span class=\"ContentPasted0\">The title of the presentation is:<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"ContentPasted0\">\n<p>The shifted sigmoids generalization.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"ContentPasted0\">A short summary of the talk:<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"ContentPasted0\">\n<p>This talk will illustrate the gist of current research in linguistics by discussing a recent, beautiful, mysterious empirical observation: the shifted sigmoid<span class=\"ContentPasted0\">s<\/span> generalization (Hayes 2022). It says that, when four linguistic forms are the cross-product of two independent linguistic dimensions, the empirical frequencies of the four forms fall on two shifted sigmoids, as illustrated <span class=\"ContentPasted0\">by the plots <\/span>at <a class=\"ContentPasted0\" href=\"https:\/\/linguistics.ucla.edu\/people\/hayes\/GalleryOfWugShapedCurves\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-safelink=\"true\" data-linkindex=\"0\">https:\/\/linguistics.ucla.edu\/people\/hayes\/GalleryOfWugShapedCurves\/index.htm<\/a>. I will introduce the generalization and present a couple of results that try to explain what it means and why it holds.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"ContentPasted1\">Dinner will be provided after the talk. 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