Sigrid Beck Colloquium
Sigrid Beck
Tübingen
Crosslinguistic variation in comparison constructions
Friday, March 6, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-23
Reception to follow in the department lounge.
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07:07 (2009-03-05)
March 5, 2009
Job News: Florian Schwarz to Penn
Florian Schwarz has accepted a tenure-track position in Linguistics at Penn and will join the department this fall. Congratulations, Florian!
Job News: Cherlon Ussery to Carleton College
Cherlon Ussery has accepted a one-year position at Carleton College as a Consortium for Faculty Diversity in Liberal Arts Colleges Fellow. Her time will be equally split between teaching and research. Congratulations, Cherlon!
Recursion Conference in UMass Amherst Linguistics
UMass Amherst Linguistics will host a conference May 26-28, 2009, on Recursion in Language and Cognition featuring, among others, Noam Chomsky, our own alums Eva Juarros-Dausa and Bart Hollebrandse, plus Tecumseh Fitch, Aravind Joshi, Hilda Koopman, Marc Hauser, Andrea Moro and many others. The conference will include a poster session. Check out the website for more details.
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[Thanks Peggy!]
Computer Science Talk: Noah Smith
Noah Smith
Language Technologies Institute and Machine Learning Department
Carnegie Mellon
Hidden Grammar: Advances in Data-Driven Models of Language
Monday, March 9, 1:30 pm Computer Science Building, Room 151
Amherst College Lecture: Timothy Williamson
Timothy Williamson gave this year's Amherst Lecture in Philosophy today (March 5). His talk was called 'Probability and danger'.
[Thanks Aynat!]
HUMDRUM on the Horizon
HUMDRUM will take place here at UMass Amherst on April 18-19. This workshop invites work on Optimality Theory from any perspective, and encourages work-in-progress as well as more polished projects. If you would like to present, please contact Emily Elfner or Brian Smith.
[Thanks Emily!]
New Photo Section of the Department Website
The department website has a new photo area. Contact Sarah if you'd like to upload your own images. Right now, there is nothing very embarrassing there, so we'll just link to this department picture from the fall:
[Thanks Sarah!]
Watsky and Kingston at NEST
Sarah Watsky (UMass Amherst Linguistics undergrad) and John Kingston are giving a talk at the NEST (New English Sequence and Timing) meeting at Haskins Labs, March 7. The talk is called 'Counting sounds: Do musicians estimate relative numerosity better than non-musicians?'
Emily Elfner at Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics
Emily Elfner will present a paper at the conference Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics, March 27-29 at the University of Arizona. Emily has also been awarded a scholarship to attend the four-day mini-course on Celtic linguistics that precedes the conference.
Acquisition Lab Meeting
The Acquisition/Evidentials group was originally scheduled to meet in the evening on March 2. However, we ended up getting a huge amount of snow on March 2. So the meeting was moved to March 3 to give everyone time to shovel out. Jill de Villiers and Jay Garfield presented 'Acquisition of Tibetan Evidentials'.
Evidentials grant consultant Ed Garrett was on hand as well. He's in town visiting and available for meetings.
[Thanks Tom!]
Phonology Group
PhG meets on Tuesday, March 10. Emily Elfner will give a practice talk for her upcoming gig in Arizona.
[Thanks Wendell!]