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04:16 (2006-05-18)
May 18, 2006
Angela Carpenter: Class Dean and Director of Harambee House
Angela Carpenter has accepted a permanent position as Class Dean and Director of Harambee House at Wellesley College. Congratulations, Angela!
[Thanks Joe!]
Dissertation Defense: Della Chambless
Asymmetries in the Acquisition of Consonant Clusters
Friday, May 26, 2006, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-26
Faculty Research Grant to Joe Pater
Joe Pater has beeen awarded a quite substantial UMass Amherst Faculty Research Grant. The title of his grant is 'Phonology with weighted constraints: A computational study of its typological implications'. Congratulations, Joe!
Undergrad Linguistics Club Party
The DARLings are having their final meeting of the year this SATURDAY (May 20) at 7 o'clock. The meeting will be at member David Fiske's apartment. For directions or more information, please contact Paula or Patrick.
We will be playing some excellent linguistics-related games, celebrating a great year, and discussing the upcoming year of DARLings meetings and activities. All undergraduate linguists are welcome, even if they've never attended a DARLings meeting before!
TA Training Seminar
The annual Linguistics Department TA Training Seminar will take place on Tuesday, May 23, in The Partee Room (SC 301). The event will begin with a catered lunch from 12:00-1:00, and then the group will get down to business. Projected finish time: 4:00 pm.
[Thanks John!]
First Algorithm from the comp4ling project
Chris Potts, Tim Beechey, and Aynat Rubinstein have begun the comp4ling project (view the announcement here). The first algorithm is up: it is a CGI/Perl implementation of Paul Dekker's Predicate Logic with Anaphora.
Watch this space for additional algorithms and other goodies as the summer progresses.
Suggestions for algorithms to include in the collection are very welcome. Send such suggestions to Chris.
GALANA 2 Acceptances
Della Chambless, Liane Jeschull, Karen Jesney, Helen Stickney, Anna Verbuk, and Jill de Villiers, had papers accepted to GALANA 2, which will take place at McGill University, August 17-19, 2006. Joe Pater is an invited speaker.
Tom Roeper in Cyprus
Tom Roeper is in Greece this week. He'll be at the Conference on the InterPhases, May 18-20. The conference is part of a celebration giving Noam Chomsky an honorary degree from the University of Cyprus. Tom's paper is called 'LF effects in DP: Evidence for phases and edges'. It is part of the special Edges in Syntax workshop.
Linguistics and LaTeX
LaTeX is used by mathematicians, physicists, logicians, and computer scientists the world over, and it was designed by one of the leading theoretical computer scientists. But the Wikipedia example of LaTeX in action is quite clearly a linguistics example.
By the way, do check out Knuth's answer to his FAQ "When did you stop using email?"
[Thanks Chris D!]
Wine Gathering: Terroir
The wine monsters present
Terroir
starring Spanish wine from the rioja region and co-starring tasty local New England cheeses along with end of semester festivity and merriment
for the blockbuster price of
$8 for students
$15 for faculty and generous people (payable to Rajesh)
not to mention a special recommended preview feature: dinner at your own house for the customary purpose of avoiding premature inebriation (not included)
and starring special guests the philosophers
conveniently located at Amy Rose's house.
Your RSVP is warmly solicited: Send a message to Rajesh.