The Linguistics Department will host a lunch tomorrow (December 12) to celebrate our graduating seniors and to mark the end of the semester. The lunch will be from 12:00 to 2:00 pm in the Freeman Lounge (3rd floor of South College). Please come, congratulate graduating majors, and have lunch and cake with us.
[Thanks Sarah!]
As we announced last week, Seth Cable is speaking in the joint semantics and syntax reading group meeting today (December 11), 4:30 pm, in the department lounge. The title of the talk is 'Sequence of Tense as Abstraction over Topic Time'; here's the abstract.
[Thanks Annahita!]
Anisa Schardl is in Voces Feminae, the Five College Early Music women's vocal ensemble. They are performing a program of Spanish music this weekend. There will be two performances:
Both performances will be free and last under an hour.
Anisa Schardl put together the team Linguists and Friends to run and walk in the Mayor Higgins' Hot Chocolate Run to benefit Safe Passage, which took place on Saturday, December 6, in downtown Northampton. The team raised over $250 of the $55,000 that the event's 3,000 participants raised for Safe Passage.
This year's team was Anisa, Diana Apoussidou, Maria Biezma, Seth, Summer, and Hazel Cable, Noah Constant, Emily Elfner, Kathryn Flack, Meg Grant, Chloe Gu, Barak Krakauer, Jia Li, Emerson Loustau, Magda Oiry, Barbara Pearson, Chris Potts, Kathryn Pruitt, Martin Walkow, Alicia Wolf, and Tiantian Zhang.
Perhaps next year's Linguists and Friends team can be even bigger!
[Thanks Anisa!]
PhG met on December 9 to read chapter 3 of Matt Wolf's dissertation. Diana Apoussidou led the discussion.
[Thanks Wendell!]
Perceptual insight in the auditory domain: An Introduction to Sine-Wave Speech (Matt Davis) [via kottke.org]
