Syntax and Semantics Seminar: Tim Hunter
Campbell 2122Morphology Reading Group (MoRG): Ideophone Fest!
Campbell 3103DAmerican Indian Seminar: Harold Torrence, Pam Munro — Research Orientation for Field Linguistics and Such
2122 Campbell HallOur Oct. 31 meeting will feature Harold and Pam talking about their work and the department's opportunities for field linguistics (research orientation, replacing a session of the traditional Linguistics 411 for first-year graduate students). All are welcome!
Chinese Lunch
Campbell Hall 2125Colloquium: Nancy Hall, “Incomplete phonetic neutralization: What Arabic can bring to the debate”, California State University, Long Beach
Haines Hall A25Arabic has played a central role in the development of phonological theory, with the challenge of describing its complex and interacting alternations spurring theoretical developments from the cycle to variants of Optimality Theory. The phonetic study of these alternations, however, has attracted less attention. In this talk, I give an overview of one controversial topic...