Geraldine Legendre Colloquium
Geraldine Legendre
Johns Hopkins
On the typology of auxiliary selection
Friday, April 7, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-26
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04:10 (2006-04-06)
April 6, 2006
NSF Fellowships to Andrew McKenzie and Jonah Katz
Andrew McKenzie, currently a Year 2 grad student here, has received an NSF Graduate Fellowship.
Jonah Katz, a 2005 UMass Amherst Linguistics BA now in the Linguistics grad program at MIT, has also received an NSF Graduate Fellowship.
Workshop on the Acquisition of Phonology
The Brown--UMass Amherst Workshop on the Acquisition of Phonology takes place here in South College this Saturday, April 8, starting at 1:00 pm, in the new department lounge. An updated schedule is below.
| 1:00-1:35 | Claartje Levelt, Leiden | The development of schwa in Dutch child language |
| 1:35-2:10 | Elizabeth McCullogh, Brown | The acquisition of word-final clusters in French |
| 2:10-2:20 | short break | |
| 2:20-2:55 | Karen Jesney, UMass Amherst | Child chain shifts as faithfulness to input prominence |
| 2:55-3:30 | Jae Yung Song, Brown | Early representation of English prosodic structure: Evidence from compensatory vowel lengthening for omitted word-final codas |
| 3:30-4:00 | longer break | |
| 4:00-4:35 | Katherine White, Brown | Statistical learning of phonological alternations |
| 4:35-5:10 | Sharon Goldwater, Brown | Bayesian modeling for word and morpheme segmentation |
[Thanks Joe!]
Undergrad Linguistics Group
The Undergrad DARLings meet today (APril 6) at 6:30 pm in South College 301. David Fiske will present some of Geraldine Legendre's recent work arguing that Balkan clitics are not phrasal affixes. This evidence is taken to further the hypothesis that verbal clitic languages do not significantly differ from clausal clitic languages.
All are welcome to attend!
[Thanks Paula!]
Acquisition Lab Meeting
Monday, April 10, 12:15 pm, South College 301
- Barbara Pearson will present the AAE database and explain how anyone can use it who wants to work on acquisition or dialect. The database contains a great deal of verbatim material as well as experimental results.
- Helen Stickney: Brainstorming on experimental approaches to Partitives and Pseudo-partitives
Everyone welcome!
[Thanks Tom!]
Semantics Reading Group
The SRG meets today (April 6), at Jan's house. All but infinitely many interested parties are welcome to attend and to bring some beverage or other.
The plan is to continue the quantifier discussion from last time, by discussing papers by Angelika Kratzer and (Indefinites and the operators they depend on: From Japanese to Salish) and Lisa Matthewson (Quantification and the nature of cross-linguistic variation), in addition to the Ed Keenan paper from last time (Some properties of natural language quantifiers).
At the meeting after this one (April 20), there will again be student presentations. Jan Anderssen will give a practice talk for WCCFL 25, and Shai Cohen will present some of his current work.
If you have something you've been working on that you would like to discuss, please let Florian or Jan know! It doesn't necessarily have to be something that fills an entire meeting --- several people could present small things.
Finally, Florian has put handouts from SALT 16 in his department mailbox, in case you are interested in any of them. Please put these back after copying.
[Thanks Florian!]
UMass Amherst Linguists in Aalborg
Helen Stickney's paper has been accepted for presentation at the Workshop on Language Acquisition at the Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics 2006 in Aalborg, Denmark, at the end of June.
Fall 2005 visitor Erik-Jan Smits will also be presenting a paper that he coauthored with Bart Hollebrandse (2000 UMass Amherst PhD) and Tom Roeper co-authored.
Some Joys of Computing
UMail will be down today (April 6) from 7:00-10:00 pm EDT, for regular maintenance. After the service: if you work on a Mac, you will have to click "Go Online" in the Mail program. If you use a Windows machine, you will have to restart your computer(!?).
And for Mac users who wish they had more chances to restart their computers: Boot Camp Public Beta.
UMass Amherst Linguists at GLOW 29
Lisa Selkirk is an invited speaker in the Workshop on Prosodic Phrasing at GLOW 29, April 6-8 in Barcelona. Her talk is called Minimalist spellout of prosodic major phrases.
John McCarthy is also an invited speaker. His talk is called 'Derivations: Optimal and otherwise'.
And 1998 UMass Amherst PhD Ania Lubowicz (Assistant Professor at USC) is a speaker at the workshop on phonological opacity. Her talk is called Opaque allomorphy in Polish.