NYU Linguistics

Katrin Scultz, from the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation
at the University of Amsterdam, will give a talk in the linguistics
department this tuesday:

Tuesday May 5th
at 11:00am
in the seminar room of the Linguistics department

"If you wiggle A, then B will change. On causal conditionals - again"
Katrin Schultz, ILLC, UvA

Abstract:

Congratulations to three of our linguistics majors, who received Dean's Undergraduate Research Fund grants for 2009-10: Alexandra Furukawa, Anna Greenwood, and Shannon Mooney. Anna Greenwood got a grant for her project on the structure of Italian syllables. She will be going to Italy to collect data for her honors thesis in phonology, directed by Maria Gouskova. Alexandra Furukawa will be working on an honors thesis on (in)formality in the speech of teachers at New York City schools. Her thesis is directed by Greg Guy. Dr. Guy is also directing Shannon Mooney's research on the sociophonetics of /r/ in Glasgow English.

NYU Linguistics is going to be pretty well represented at this year's Eastern Generative Grammar summer school in Poznan, Poland. A few of our current majors and Bachelor's alumnae are attending as students, and Eytan Zweig, PhD (2007), is one of the teachers.

Amanda Rysling has been accepted to an Undergraduate Summer Workshop held at the UPenn Institute for Research in Cognitive Science. This workshop is prestigious and competitive, and those who get admitted also get financial aid for attending. Congratulations, Amanda!

During the summer of 2009, there will be a two-week school at the NYU-in-Ghana campus in Accra, Ghana that focuses on the study of African languages and linguistic theory. Chris Collins and John Singler are both organizers and lecturers; Violeta Vazquez-Rojas is one of the lecturers.

Gregory Guy will be presenting the keynote address at SIS-Vogais II (The second International Symposium on Vowels), at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, on May 23.

Three people from the department are participating in the Cross-Language Speech Perception and Variations in Linguistic Experience workshop at the Acoustical Society of America meeting in Portland, OR, May 18-22. Lisa Davidson and Jason Shaw will present a poster called "A closer look at perceptual epenthesis in cross-language perception", and Tuuli Adams will present a poster on "Second language word segmentation in a fluent speech listening task".

Cheers to Liina Pylkkanen, who has just been awarded NYU's 2009-2010 Whitehead Fellowship for Junior Faculty in Biomedical and Biological Sciences. Her research project that this grant will support is called "Neural Mechanisms in Combinatoric Semantics".

Katerina Souliopoulos, a freshman, has just received a Dean's Undergraduate Research Fund grant to do research on the spatio-temporal properties of syllables using data collected with the three-dimensional eletromagnetic articulometry method under Dr. Adamantios Gafos. Katerina presented the results of her research in Dr. Gafos's Freshman Honors Seminar at the Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium
this past April.

The Department of Cognitive Studies at the Paris Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS) organizes its seventh international Fall School in Linguistics. The goal of this interdisciplinary Fall school is to provide exposure to linguistic theory, and to grammar based approaches to cognitive studies. The EALing VII teachers include Guglielmo Cinque, David Pesetsky, Liina Pylkkänen, Luigi Rizzi, Benjamin Spector, Megha Sundara, Roger Schwarzschild, Michael Ullman, and Alan Yu.