Keren Rice Colloquium
Keren Rice
University of Toronto
Place of articulation neutralization and substantive markedness hierarchies
Friday, October 24, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-26
[Thanks Emily!]
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06:28 (2008-10-23)
October 23, 2008
Keren Rice Special Lecture
Keren Rice (University of Toronto) will speak about her work on Athapaskan this Friday, October 24, at 10 am in the Partee room. The title and abstract are below. All are welcome!
[Thanks Emily!]
Syntax Reading Group
Syntax Reading Group meets today (October 23), 8:00 pm, at Rajesh's house in Northampton. The meeting features Meg Grant giving a practice talk for her NELS 39 talk 'A psycholinguistic investigation of MaxElide in variable-binding contexts'.
[Thanks Annahita!]
Phonology Reading Group
PhG met on Wednesday, October 22, at Peter and Diana's house in Northampton. In preparation for Keren Rice's colloq, the group read Rice's chapter 'Markedness in phonology' in the Cambridge Handbook of Phonology (Paul de Lacy, ed.). Emily Elfner led the discussion.
[Thanks Wendell!]
Maxi Limbach in the Acquistion Lab
Maxi Limbach
University of Köln
Experimental plans for recursive possessives in German/English bi-linguals
Monday, October 27, 12:15 pm, Partee Room
Speas Lecture at Purdue, From South College
Last week, Peggy Speas gave a guest lecture at Purdue University without having to leave South College. The talk, which Elena Benedicto arranged via Skype, was on Navajo Pronouns in Embedded Contexts. Peggy reports that it was fun and the students asked good questions, but the post-colloq party at her desk was pretty dull.
Undergraduate Majors Fair
Undergrads! Find the Linguistics outpost at the Majors Fair, Wednesday, October 29, 5:30-7:30 pm, Campus Center Auditorium and First Floor Concourse. Professors Bhatt and Potts will be on hand to answer questions.
UMass Amherst Linguists at BUCLD
The Boston University Child Language Development (October 31-November 2) will be bustling with UMass Amherst linguists. Anna Verbuk, Helen Stickney, Joe Pater, Jill deVilliers, Barbara Pearson, Ana Perez and D'jaris Coles White will all present papers or posters. In addition, Tom Roeper is giving a plenary lecture on Saturday evening, title 'From Input to Mind: How acquisition work captures the heart of linguistic theory and the soul of practical application'.
Judy Kegl Lecture at UMass Boston
On November 5, Judy Kegl will give a talk at UMass Boston. The title is 'Four Instincts that lead us to language'. The event is sponsored by the Hispanic Studies Department, the Undergraduate Program in Linguistics, and the Friends of Healey Library of the University of Massachusetts Boston. It takes place from 3:30 to 5:00 at the Center for Library Instruction, Healey Library, 4th floor, UMass Boston.
[Thanks Luis!]
An Important Announcement from the Candy Monsters
Dear Colleagues,
As I'm sure you're all aware, we are fast approaching that most important and glorious of holidays: the day after Halloween. This is the day when perfectly good Twix and Snickers bars that are wrapped in Halloween-themed wrappers are half off. This is a crucial time of the year. If we get enough candy donations in the piggy and yogurt container, we could be up to our elbows in chocolate bars until (the day after) Valentine's Day. If not, we may be headed for many cold winter months of dum dums and cheap bubble gum.
I implore you, fellow linguists: make a donation! Only by working together can we acquire ample amounts of life-giving chocolate. Give to the piggy by Halloween, and encourage your departmentmates to give as well!
The Candy Monsters