Veneeta Dayal Colloquium
Veneeta Dayal
Rutgers
Free choice Any: Two recalcitrant problems
Friday, February 15, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-26
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06:04 (2008-02-14)
February 14, 2008
GLSA Symbolic Bake Sale Today (with Real Goodies)
The GLSA is holding a Symbolic Bake Sale today, 12:00-2:00 pm, in the South College Lounge, to raise money for advertising GLSA titles on Linguist List. The sale symbolizes an attempt to alleviate GLSA's temporary financial woes with real baked goods. Please come stuff your face with copious quantities of cookies and cupcakes -- you'll be contributing to two very worthy causes with one bite: the GLSA and Linguist List!! We will also be accepting donations from those wishing to abstain from the sugar fest (or from those feeling extra generous).
[Thanks Jesse!]
Undergrad Linguistics Club Meeting
The Undergrad Linguistics Club is back! The group held a preliminary organizational meeting yesterday (Feb 13) at the Blue Wall. If you missed the meeting but would like to be involved, drop Chris Potts a note, so that he can put you in touch with the organizers.
[Thanks Ginny!]
Joint SRG and SRG Meeting
The Syntax Reading Group and the Semantics Reading Group join forces this week to prepare for Veneeta Dayal's colloquium on Friday. The plan is to read Dayal's The universal force of free choice any. The meeting will be at Amy Rose's place, starting at 8:00 pm. The goal is an informal, inclusive discussion.
[Thanks Annahita!]
Michael Becker in Phonology Group
PhG holds its first meeting of the semester tomorrow (Feb 15), 2:00 pm, in the Partee Room. Michael Becker will give a talk about his recent experimental work.
This is unlikely to be the regular PhG meeting time. We'll have more details about the schedule soon.
[Thanks Kathryn!]
Key and Kingston to LabPhon 11
Mike Key and John Kingston have had papers accepted to LabPhon 11, which will be held at Victoria University of Wellingston, NZ, June 30-July 2. Mike's is called 'Interactive and autonomous modes of speech perception: Consonant place discrimination', and John's is called 'The independence of auditory and categorical effects on speech perception'.
2up PDF Maker Utility Website Announcement
From Jan Anderssen:
Do you sometimes print an article 2up (i.e. two pages per sheet) and end up regretting it because you have all that white space around a text block that is barely legible? PDF-2up can probably help.
NELS 37 Now for Sale on Amazon.com
NELS 37 is now for sale in cyberspace. Visit the GLSA website for direct links to the Amazon.com pages.
[Thanks Amy Rose!]
Calling all Ling 201 Materials
John Kingston is recompiling and expanding the department's collection of Ling 201 (Intro to Linguistics) materials. Get him your stuff on CD, and he'll help make the collection available to our community again.
[Thanks John! Thanks contributors!]
The Candy Monster is Broke Again
Dire news from the Candy Monster:
Candy monster currently has no money.
If we do not get some significant donations soon, we will be forced to stock the candy jars with nothing but chalky, unpleasant conversation hearts until Easter.
That is all.
Candy Monster
Harvard Adopts Open-Access Mandate
Nice coverage of this story by Kai von Fintel at the Semantics & Pragmatics Editors' weblog.
[Thanks Kai and Barbara!]