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04:04 (2006-02-16)
February 23, 2006
February 16, 2006
WHISC as a Weblog: Trial Version
This week's WHISC is being doubly published, in its usual format and here in this trial weblog format. Please let us know what you think. We are seriously considering a switch to this new format for WHISC.
The category features are a prime motivation for the switch to a weblog. The links are in the bottom right of the sidebar. The pages they link to have static URLs, but the pages are updated with new information as it appears in WHISC. So you could, for example, link to the archive page of the semantics reading group from your homepage, and the latest from that group would always appear at the top of the linked page. (Don't create such a link yet. These URLs will change when we move out of test mode.)
Our thanks to Jan Anderssen for figuring out that we could install MovableType and then going right ahead and installing it.
Angela Carpenter Defense
Acquisition of a Natural vs. an Unnatural Stress System
Friday, February 17, 2006, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-26
[Party at Joe's after]
Lisa Green to Join the UMass Amherst Faculty
Lisa Green has accepted our offer of a position. She will be joining the UMass Amherst Linguistics Department faculty next fall. We are very fortunate to have her joining us.
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Undergrad DARLings Meeting
The Undergrad DARLings meet today (Thursday, February 16), at 6:00 pm, in the Partee Room (SC 301). Sarah Watsky will present. She will discuss acquisition in Italian. Specificially, she will address the issue of how two particles with a wide range of uses --- ci and ne --- are acquired.
[Thanks Paula!]
Report from Heather Walts, from Pakistan
Heather Walts, a recent graduate of the UMass Amherst Linguistics undergraduate program, is now living and working in Pakistan. She went expecting to work on a literacy project, but she has ended up teaching English at a Cultural Center and also teaching some modules of an MA TESOL program. She writes:
I have one student who is selling his motorcyle to have private lessons in linguistics, so I thought current students might be inspired by the work over here. Not to mention it's quite exciting with my classes being cancelled due to riots over the Danish cartoonist and the impending visit of George W. to Islamabad next month ... should be an exciting semester here!
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Acquisition Lab Session
Monday February 13, 2006, South College 301, 12:15 pm
Catherine Leger
Acquistion of Factivity with French and
English-speaking Children
Anna Verbuk
Acquisition of Evans-Style contexts
All are welcome!
Phonology Group
The next meeting of the PhG is Wednesday, February 22, 3:30 pm, in South College 301. The plan is to discuss Lev Blumenfeld's recent ROA posting, 'Tone domains in Tonga'. John Kingston writes, "I have a very soft spot in my heart (and a little heart break) about this language, as I wrote about it in my special field exam when I was a student."
John K. will lead the discussion, perhaps assisted by Mike Key.
UMMM 1 Report
From Kathryn Flack:
UMMM, the joint UMass and MIT phonology group, met for the first time on Saturday, February 11, and it was a great success! About 25 people gathered in our new lounge for seven talks and much lively conversation on a wide range of topics in phonetics and phonology. The MIT contingent successfully avoided driving in blizzard conditions, everyone gracefully adapted to a short-notice time change, and we're looking forward to another meeting (at MIT, so of "MUMM") in April.
Semantics Reading Group
From Florian Schwarz:
The new semester is beginning to stop looking so new, and it's about time to have our first SRG meeting. That will be today (Thursday, February 16). As usual, we'll start at 8:00 pm, and we'll be at Jan's house this week.
We'll continue to discuss Kamp and Partee 1995. We should focus on section 5, i.e., the striped (stri[pt], stri[pəd]?) apple case and the related problem for compositionality. Aynat has an interesting handout by a friend of hers from Israel, and I had prepared that section for the last meeting, so we should be all set. Maybe one or two people could prepare to help us get back to speed on the Osheron-Smith Challenge and supervaluations [We volunteer Chris for this ---WHISC eds.]?
We should also take time to discuss what we are doing this semester! There's only two more SRG's before spring break, and one of those will be practice talks by Ilaria and myself for SALT...
See you Thursday!
Florian
Syntax Reading Group
Dalina Kallulli will give a talk in the syntax reading group on Thursday, February 23. The title of the talk is 'Resumption and concealed relatives'. All are welcome!
Call to Chocolate!
The candy situation, always precarious, is now dire. The chocolate is gone. The nutty things are good. We are left with tooth-achingly sweet artificially fruity sugar globules.
Please donate to the worthwile cause of getting us more goodies. The WHISC staff depends on this fuel for their midnight publishing sessions.
[Thanks to Candy Monster Amy Rose for sounding the alarm!]