Sarah Thomason (University of Michigan) will give a colloquium talk on Friday, March 2, at 4pm in Room 104 of 10 Washington Place. The title and abstract are below.
Title: Contact-Induced Language Change and Typological Congruence
Abstract:
Cheers to Colin Coltrera and Donna Kiessling, who are recipients of DURF grants for Spring 2012. Their respective faculty sponsors are John Costello and Renee Blake.
Tim Leffel is going to present a poster on "Non-restrictive adjectives and the theory of scalar implicature" and Lucas Champollion on "Temporal dependencies: anaphora vs. movement" at GLOW 35, Potsdam, March 28-30.
Juliette Blevins will give a colloquium talk on Friday, Feb. 10, at 4pm in Room 104 of 10 Washington Place. The title and abstract are below.
Title: Duality of Patterning: Absolute Universal or Statistical Tendency?
Abstract:
The following articles by Liina Pylkkänen, Jon Brennan (NYU PhD 2010), and Hugh Rabagliati (NYU PhD 2010) are now published online, ahead of print:
Brennan J, Pylkkänen L. (2012). The time-course and spatial distribution of brain activity associated with sentence processing. Neuroimage. Jan 9. epub
Rabagliati H, Pylkkänen L, Marcus GF. (2012). Top-down influence in young children's linguistic ambiguity resolution. Developmental Psychology. Jan 9. epub
Maria Gouskova's article on “Unexceptional segments” has just appeared in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 30:1, pp. 79--133. See the pre-publication version here.
We celebrate our PhD alumni who defended and filed their dissertations during the calendar year 2011 or in January 2012. The dissertations can be accessed at their homepages and at the (pdf) links below.
Sonya Fix
"Dark-Skinned White Girls": Linguistic and Ideological Variation Among White Women with African American Ties in the Urban Midwest pdf
Daniel Lassiter
Measurement and Modality: The Scalar Basis of Modal Semantics pdf
Txuss Martín
Deconstructing Catalan Object Clitics pdf
Abdoulaye Laziz Nchare
The Grammar of Shupamem pdf
Laura Rimell
Nominal Roots as Event Predicates in English Denominal Conversion Verbs pdf
Marcos Rohena-Madrazo
Sociophonetic Variation in the Production and Perception of Obstruent Voicing in Buenos Aires Spanish pdf
Cheers to Cara Shousterman, who has just accepted the GSAS Dean's Dissertation Fellowship for 2012/13.
Unless otherwise noted, all talks will take place on Friday from 1.30-3pm in Room 103 of 10 Washington Place. See the Brown Bag website for details and updates.
February 3rd- Jim Wood (NYU)
February 10th- Omer Preminger (Harvard/MIT)
March 2nd- Jeffrey Watumull (University of Cambridge/MIT)
March 19th- Jessica Coon (McGill) (Special Time: Monday, 12.30-2pm)
March 23rd- Meera Saeed Al Kaabi (NYU)
April 6th- Ruth Kramer (Georgetown University)
May 4th- Gisli Har∂arson (UConn)
The Phonetics and Experimental Phonology Lab will meet on Fridays from 10:30 till 12 this semester, in the 5th floor Phonetics Lab of 10 Washington Place. Here is the current schedule:
Jan 27: Kikuyo Ito, CUNY Graduate Center
Feb 10: Lisa Davidson (with Sean Martin and Colin Wilson)
Feb 24 (2-3:30pm): Annual Conference on African Linguistics practice talks. Presenters: Melanie Pangilinan (Central Connecticut State University), Seunghun Lee (Central Connecticut State University), Sang-Im Lee (NYU), and Shigeto Kawahara (Rutgers University), "An acoustic comparison of palatal fricatives and whistled fricatives in Xitsonga" and Tim Mathes (NYU) Title TBA
Mar 9 (Open House week)
Mar 30: Neil Myler
Apr 13: Kathleen Currie Hall, College of Staten Island/CUNY Graduate Center
Apr 27: Sangjin Hwang
May 4: TBA