Eiling Yee
Brown PhD; now on a post-doc at Penn
Word recognition, from sound to meeting
Thursday, January 22, 10:30-12:00, Tobin 521B
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Angela Carpenter (2006 UMass Amherst Linguistics PhD) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the program in Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences at Wellesley College. She is taking up this academic position after spending the last few years as Class Dean and Director of Harambee House at Wellesley.
[Thanks Joe!]
Patrick Pratt successfully defended his honor's thesis, Typology in Harmonic Serialism, on December 18. His advisors were Andrew McCallum and Joe Pater. Pat will be continuing to work in the spring as an RA on the McCarthy/Pater NSF project, and you can look for the fruits of his labor in an upcoming version of OT-Help. Congratulations Pat!
[Thanks Joe!]
Yurie Hara (2006-2007 UMass Amherst Linguistics visitor) has accepted an Assistant Professor position at the City University of Hong Kong. Congratulations, Yurie!
A new year's treat from Tom and Laura!
There were many UMass Amherst linguists at the 4th Meeting on Prosody and Informational Structure, hosted by Haruo Kubozono in Shiga. Masako Hirotani, Taka Shinya, and Satoshi Tomioka all presented their work. Shin Ishihara (currently at Potsdam) presented his joint project with Yoshi Kitagawa. Shigeto Kawahara was an invited discussant. And Yurie Hara also attended the meeting.
Tom Roeper gave three lectures in Norway this past December: 'Recursion in Acquisition', 'Nodes, Features, and Labels' (Trondheim), and 'The impact of recursion and Phases on interpretation' (Tromsø). He also found time for some skiing and dog-sledding above the Arctic Circle:
Nathan Klinedinst and Daniel Rothschild are organizing a workshop on presuppositions at the 2009 ESSLLI: New Directions in the Theory of Presupposition. Two-page abstracts are due February 15, 2009. See the website for more details.
