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February 27, 2011

Anne Pycha and John Kingston at CLS

We are happy to announce that the Chicago Linguistics Society's program has just come out, and UMass is well represented. Anne Pycha and John Kingston, for instance, will present their paper "Duration variation triggered by consonant voicing is not gestural: Evidence from production." The CLS is one of the oldest continuously running conferences on formal linguistics, and takes place each Spring on the campus of the University of Chicago. This year it will occur April 7-9.

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Terue Nakato-Miyashita's paper accepted at CLS

Terue Nakato-Miyashita will present her paper "The economy of encoding and anaphoric depen- dency with relational nouns: Evidence from child grammar" at the 47th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society on April 7.

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Preregister for Penn Linguistics Colloquium by March 4

The 35th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium will take place March 18-20, 2011 at the University of Pennsylvania. All sessions will be held in Claudia Cohen Hall.

KEYNOTE ADDRESS:

Virginia Valian (CUNY, Hunter College)
"Competence, performance, and language acquisition"

SPECIAL PANEL:

"Language Acquisition"
Speakers:
Jeff Lidz (University of Maryland, Linguistics)
Anna Papafragou (University of Delaware, Psychology)
Jennifer Smith (University of Glasgow, Linguistics)
Charles Yang (University of Pennsylvania, Linguistics)

The preregistration deadline is Friday, March 4. To preregister, go here and follow the link to fill out the online form. All registration fees, including preregistration, will be collected onsite.

Onsite registration will cost an additional $10. Be sure to pre-register before March 4!

For further information, please go to the link above, or email plc35@ling.upenn.edu.

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Noah Constant's paper accepted to CLS

Congratulations to Noah Constant, whose paper "Re-diagnosing appositivity: Evidence for prenominal appositives from Mandarin" has also been accepted to the 47th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society.

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Acquisition Lab and LARC meeting

On Monday, February 28, 2011 at 5:15 in the Partee Room (South College 301), Rama Novogrodsky will present:

"What are the stages in the acquisition of each and every: From generic to specific or vise versa?"

All are welcome!

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