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The Department of LinguisticsThe LSA Executive Committee voted to award the 2013 Best Paper in Language Award (for Volume 88, published in 2012) to Bruce Hayes, Colin Wilson (Johns Hopkins) and Anne Shisko for their jointly-authored paper “Maxent Grammars for the Metrics of Shakespeare and Milton”. They will receive the award at the LSA Annual Meeting in Boston…
Read MoreDustin Bowers will be presenting part of his MA work at the 44th Algonquian Conference to be held at the University of Chicago this week, 25th-28th October. His talk is entitled: Phonological restructuring in Odawa.
Read MoreThe 5th California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics (CUSP 5) will be held at UCSD on October 27 – 28, 2012. UCLA faculty and graduate students will be well-represented: Natasha Korotkova: Evidentiality in Georgian Deniz Ozyildiz: When I is not me: A preliminary case study of shifted indexicals in Turkish Philippe Côté-Boucher: Beyond the King of…
Read MoreHilda Koopman was recently invited to the USC Undergraduate Linguistics Conference on October 12, where she introduced the audience to the the Syntactic Structure of the World’s Languages (SSWL and Terraling) database project. The slides can be found here. She will also be heading out to Cornell for the Workshop on Suspended Affixation on October…
Read MoreSun-Ah Jun will be speaking at MIT this Friday, October 26, as part of their colloquium series. Her talk is entitled: Prosodic Priming in Relative Clause Attachment. An abstract follows: In a sentence such as “Someone shot the servant of the actress who was on the balcony”, the relative clause (RC) can modify NP1 the servant (i.e.,…
Read MoreLaura McPherson will be presenting on his work on Dogon this week in Phonology Seminar. All are welcome! Speaker: Laura McPherson Date/Time: Wednesday, October 24, 4-6pm Location: Campbell 2122K Title: Replacive Grammatical Tone In The Dogon Languages Contact: Kie Zuraw
Read MoreKathleen O’Flynn will be presenting in the American Indian Seminar this week. Speaker: Kathleen O’Flynn Date/Time: Tuesday, October 23, 1-2pm Location: Campbell 2122 Title: TBA Contact: Pam Munro
Read MoreSun-Ah Jun will be giving a talk this week in Phonetics Seminar Speaker: Sun-Ah Jun Date/Time: Monday, October 22, 4-6pm Location: Campbell 2101K Title: Prosodic Priming In Relative Clause Attachment Contact: Megha Sundara
Read MoreA number of graduate students and faculty will be giving practice talks for CUSP 5 which takes places next weekend at UCSD. Speaker: Various Date/Time: Friday, October 19, 1-4pm Location: Campbell 2122 Title: Various Contact: Hilda Koopman
Read MoreRobert Daland’s paper, “Variation in the input: a case study of manner class frequencies,” has appeared in the October Issue of Journal of Child Language. Congratulations Robert! In addition, Robert writes, on Open Access: I believe that Open Access is the right way to go when possible. The federal and state governments have already paid for…
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