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04:27 (2006-10-26)

October 26, 2006

Takahito Shinya Dissertation Defense

Takahito Shinya

The Role of Lexical Contrast in the Perception of Intonational Prominence in Japanese

Friday, October 27, 2006, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-26

Helen Stickney Talk at Springfield College

Helen Stickney

Nicaraguan Sign Language: Watching Language Emerge

Thursday, November 2, Springfield College

NELS 35 Published

NELS 35: here...

NELS 35, Volumes 1 and 2

...and gone!

NELS 35, packaged

GLSA thanks everyone who turned up on Friday to help get NELS 35 out to its public!

[Thanks Amy Rose!

Undergrad Linguistics Club

On Tuesday, October 31, the DARLings meet (as usual) at 6:30 pm in South College 301 (The Partee Room). Ryan O' Mara and David Fiske will be introducing Grice's Maxims of Conversation and dicussing some issues at the semantics--pragmatics interface. There will be food and beverages. As usual everyone/anyone is encouraged to come!

[Thanks David!]

Syntax Reading Group

Syntax Reading Group meets today (October 26) at 8:00 pm at Rajesh's house. Lisa Green will present Anita Mitwoch's paper 'Unspecified arguments in episodic and habitual sentences.

[Thanks Cherlon!]

Phonology Reading Group

PhG meets next on Halloween, at 3:30 pm, in the Partee Room. The group will discuss the following work:

Contact Kathryn P if you would like copies of these.

Kathryn P writes, "There is currently nothing spooky actually planned, but I'm happy to hear suggestions for increasing the spookiness, if this is exciting for people."

[Thanks Kathryn!]

Acquisition Lab

The Acquisition Lab met on Tuesday, October 23. Hristo Kyuchukov, currently a visitor at Smith, presented some of his recent work.

[Thanks Youri!]