The 1st Summer Dialect Research Project finished up on June 17. It was two intense and productive weeks of seminars, group research projects, and talks. On June 16, the students presented their work in an extended afternoon seminar.
We hope to have pictures and a fuller report for the July issue. Stay tuned!
[Thanks Barbara!]
Kathryn Flack will be Visiting Assistant Professor at Hampshire for the 2007-8 academic year. She'll be teaching in the school of cognitive science.
PhG has been meeting throughout the month.
June 6: Tim Vance (University of Arizona) gave a talk on Lyman and Lyman's Law.
June 13: The phonetics lab presented a paper entitled "Hearing precedes knowledge: The autonomy of auditory and lexical effects of context". The authors are John Kingston, Dan Mash, Della Chambless, Shigeto Kawahara, and Jonah Katz.
June 27: Shigeto Kawahara presented ongoing joint research with Yurie Hara called 'Patterns of hiatus resolution in Hiroshima Japanese'.
[Thanks Kathryn P!]
Florian Schwarz's paper 'Processing presupposed content' has been accepted by the Journal of Semantics.
The recent Illinois workshop on recursion, which included a presentation by Tom Roeper and Bart Hollebrandse, was covered by the Chicago Tribune. It's best to look at the article only after first reading the responses to it by Tom, by Dan Everett, and by Mark Liberman (an onlooker):
Tom Roeper was in Japan this month. He gave the keynote lecture, 'Recursion and exclusivity', based on joint work with Bart Hollebrandse, at the Kansei Linguistics Society meeting. There were many UMass Amherst folks in attendance, including Armin Mester, Junko Ito, Mariko Sugahara, Mari Takahasi, and Masanobu Ueda.
Tom also spoke in Sendai, at Tohuku University, on acquisition and implicatures, based in part on Anna Verbuk's work, at a workshop in Kyoto on morphology on joint work with Angeliek van Hout and Masaaki Kamiya, and at an acquisition workshop at Nanzan University on the acquisition of quantification.
(Wow, that's a lot of talks.)
