NYU Linguistics

Two talks will take place in the classroom on the first floor of 10 Washington Place on Oct 22, 2009.

11am-12:15pm: Corrected High-Speed Anchored Ultrasound with Software Alignment
12:30pm-2pm: The Representation of Complex Segments (abstract in pdf)

For more information about events in the Phonetics and Experimental Phonology lab, click here.

Cheers to Suzanne, Hugh, and Liina re: the acceptance of this paper in Psychological Science!

Dikker, S., Rabagliati, H., Farmer, T. A., & Pylkkänen, L. (in press). Early occipital sensitivity to syntactic category is based on form typicality. Psychological Science.

Jon Brennan, Alec Marantz and Liina Pylkkänen will be giving talks at the MEG and Language (MEGLANG) 2009 workshop in Paris on Oct 8-9.

Jon Brennan: "Incrementally dissociating syntax and semantics with MEG"
Alec Marantz: "Single trial regression analyses in source space for linguistic variables: some results for visual word recognition"
Liina Pylkkänen: "Studying the neural bases of semantic composition with MEG"

The following three posters by NYU linguists (with psychologist and philosopher friends) will be presented at the first Neurobiology of Language Conference (NLC 2009) in Chicago, IL, on Oct 15-16:

Suzanne Dikker, Hugh Rabagliati, Thomas Farmer, and Liina Pylkkänen: "Sensitivity to syntax in visual cortex: the role of form typicality."
Douglas Bemis and Liina Pylkkänen: "The neural correlates of basic linguistic composition: an MEG investigation."
Gwyneth Lewis, Alec Marantz and Olla Solomyak: "The neural basis of obligatory decomposition of suffixed words: Tracking the “broth” in “brother”."

Jason Shaw and and Lisa Davidson will be presenting a talk called “Perceptual Similarity Does Not Account for Repairs of Non-native Phonotactics”.

Lisa Davidson is also presenting another talk at NELS with Colin Wilson (JHU) called "Explaining non-native consonant cluster processing".

NYU Linguistics BA alum Ryan Bennett, currently at UC Santa Cruz, will be speaking about "Wh-reciprocals, quantifier raising, and phasehood."

Philippe Schlenker (Jean-Nicod and NYU) is talking about "Non-restrictive relative clauses in a unidimensional semantics" and also about Donkey anaphora in French Sign Language.

Marcos Rohena-Madrazo is presenting at two conferences in October:

"Perceptual assimilation of obstruent voicing contrasts by Buenos Aires Spanish listeners" at the 2009 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium in San Juan, Puerto Rico on October 23.

"Perception of non-native voicing contrasts by Buenos Aires Spanish listeners", a poster at the 2009 Acoustical Society of America meeting in San Antonio, Texas on October 30.

Tom Roeper (UMass) will present a Brown Bag on Oct 23 at 1:30pm in 10 WP, room 103.

"Vacate Phase and Presupposition Guarantee"

Seven NYU linguists are presenting at NWAV 38, University of Ottawa, October 22-25, 2009:

Kara Becker, 'Is Coffee Talk Lost? BOUGHT raising on Manhattan’s Lower East Side'

Renee Blake, Cara Shousterman, Lindsay Kelley, 'Rethinking AAE research: The use of postvocalic /r/ by two groups of black New Yorkers'

Gregory R. Guy, 'Co-variables: Are sociolects coherent?

Sonia Fix, `Representations of blackness by white women: Linguistic practice in the
community versus the media'

Philipp Angermeyer (York U.),
`Translation effects as evidence in language contact studies: The case of variable subject pronouns in NYC Spanish'

PEP lab seminar series talks will take place in the classroom on the first floor of 10 Washington Place.

10/22/09: Amanda Miller
11am-12:15pm: Corrected High-Speed Anchored Ultrasound with Software Alignment
12:30pm-2pm: The Representation of Complex Segments (abstract in pdf)

11/09/09: Sharon Peperkamp
12:30pm-2pm: Early phonological acquisition: computational and experimental approaches

11/12/09: Albert Costa
12:30pm-2pm: Advantages and Costs of being a Bilingual Speaker

Norbert Hornstein (Maryland) will be giving a colloquium on Friday, Nov 6 titled "Speculations on a Minimalist Approach to Pronoun Binding". All colloquia take place in the first floor classroom of 10 Washington Place at 4:00pm.

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Chris Kennedy (U Chicago) will be giving a colloquium on Friday, Oct 30th at 4pm in the 1st floor classroom of 10 Washington Place. His talk is titled "Aspectual composition and scalar change". A reception will follow on the second floor.

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Maria Gouskova is giving a colloquium at MIT on Oct. 30, 2009. The title of her talk is "Exceptionality as a Property of Morphemes: the Case of Yers".

Marina Tzakosta from U. of Crete is visiting the department, next Tuesday, Nov 3.
Marina got her PhD recently from Leiden. Her Promotor (Dutch nomencl.) was
Vincent van Heuven, her supervisor was Jeroen van de Weijer and the external
reader was John J. McCarthy. In general, Marina's work is on prosody and the
acquisition of phonology.

Title and abstract of her talk @ 1:30, next Tuesday, Nov 3 are as follows ....

"Exploring the representation of complex segments: the case of Greek affricates"

ABSTRACT (examples and references can be found here [pdf])

Dennis Ott (Harvard) will be giving a Syntax Brown bag on Friday, Oct 30th at 1:30pm in the 1st floor conference room (10 Washington Place).

Title:
Remnant Movement in German Revisited

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Cheers to Sonya for winning the best student poster award at NWAV 38! Her title was `Representations of blackness by white women: Linguistic practice in the
community versus the media'.

Best student paper/poster awards to our grads at previous NWAV's:
Karen Kirke paper 2004
Libby Coggshall paper 2007
Kara Becker & Amy Wong poster 2008

Amanda Rysling, an undergraduate linguistics major, has been named Silverstein Scholar for 2009-2010 by the College of Arts and Sciences. Congratulations, Amanda!

John Singler, on sabbatical in this semester, gave the keynote address to the annual conference of the Linguistics Society of Southern Africa / Southern African Applied Linguistics Association at Cape Peninsula, University of Technology in Cape Town. The talk was entitled "Variationist Sociolinguistics and the Niger-Congo Languages of West Africa: The Non-State of the Art."

He has recently given colloquia at the University of Western Australia, the University of Cape Town, and the University of the West Indies (Mona). The Mona campus of UWI is in Jamaica.