Maria Gouskova to speak at Eastern Michigan
Maria will be giving a colloquium at her undergraduate alma mater, Eastern Michigan University, on Friday the 20th of November.
Announcements Archives
Posted November 19, 2009
Eytan Zweig in Linguistics and Philosophy
Cheers to Eytan Zweig (PhD January 2008), whose article on "Number-neutral bare plurals and the multiplicity implicature" has just appeared online in Linguistics and Philosophy; read here; doi: 10.1007/s10988-009-9064-3 .
Co-incidentally, Eytan is in town this week, and tomorrow he is giving a talk related to this article in the Semantics Group (10am -- meet at 9:45 for coffee).
As a reminder, the schedule of the Semantics Group presentations is to be found here.
Posted November 13, 2009
Mike Taylor in American Speech
Cheers to Mike Taylor, whose article with David Eddington on "T-glottalization in American English" has just come out in American Speech 84(3): 298-314 (2009).
Posted November 6, 2009
Kara Becker in Journal of Sociolinguistics
Cheers to Kara Becker, whose article on "/r/ and the construction of place identity on New York City's Lower East Side" has appeared in Journal of Sociolinguistics 2009, 13.5: 634-658. Here is the link to the on-line article.
Posted October 28, 2009
Amanda Rysling is Silverstein Scholar
Amanda Rysling, an undergraduate linguistics major, has been named Silverstein Scholar for 2009-2010 by the College of Arts and Sciences. Congratulations, Amanda!
Sonya Fix wins NWAV 38 Best Student Poster Award
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
Posted October 26, 2009
Maria Gouskova to speak at MIT
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".
Posted October 14, 2009
NYU linguists at NWAV 38, Ottawa
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'
Posted October 10, 2009
Upcoming talks of Marcos Rohena-Madrazo
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.
Posted October 8, 2009
Bennett (alum), Davidson, Schlenker, and Shaw to present at NELS
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.
Posted October 7, 2009
Beamis, Dikker, Pylkkanen, and Marantz to present in the Neurobiology of Language conference in Chicago
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”."
Marantz, Pylkkanen and Brennan to speak at the MEGLANG 2009 workshop in Paris.
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"
Dikker, Rabagliati and Pylkkanen to publish in Psychological Science
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.
Posted September 23, 2009
Mike Solomon to speak at Sinn und Bedeutung, Vienna
Mike Solomon is giving a talk on "Partitives and the semantics of same" at Sinn und Bedeutung 14, Vienna, Sept. 28-30, 2009.
Posted September 22, 2009
Semantics Group meetings
The semantics group will be meeting 10am to 12pm on Fridays, save for the first Friday of each month, when it meets at noon. The first talk was given by Violeta Vazquez Rojas on 9-18 (on the quantificational adjective puros), the second one will be by Inna Livitz on 9-25 (on the distributive vs collective readings of both). The subsequent schedule will be posted here. Members of the department and longer-term visitors should email Anna if they wish to be on the email list of the group.
Posted September 6, 2009
Anna Szabolcsi to speak at Logic, Language, Mathematics
Anna Szabolcsi is giving a talk entitled "Certain verbs are syntactically explicit quantifiers" at Logic, Language, Mathematics, a philosophy conference in memory of Imre Ruzsa, Sept. 17-19, 2009, Budapest.
Posted September 4, 2009
Oana Savescu dissertation on pronominal clitic clusters in Romance
Cheers to Oana Savescu Ciucivara, who has just filed her dissertation entitled "A Syntactic Analysis of Pronominal Clitic Clusters in Romance. The View from Romanian" (chair: Richard Kayne). The dissertation is posted at her home page.
Marantz receives NSF grant
Congratulations to Alec Marantz, who has been awarded a 3-year research grant from the NSF for the project, 'Morphological Decomposition in Derived Word Recognition: Single Trial Correlational MEG Studies of Morphology Down to the Roots' ($600K in funding).
Posted September 1, 2009
Rahul Balusu's dissertation defense
Congratulations to Rahul Balusu on the successful defense of his dissertation, "OCP effects in Telugu." The committee consists of Lisa Davidson, Maria Gouskova, Adamantios Gafos, Gregory Guy, and Adam Albright.
Posted August 31, 2009
We've moved!
The Department of Linguistics is now in its own building at 10 Washington Place (map). The newly renovated building is between Mercer and Greene Streets, about a block and a half west from our previous location at 726 Broadway. Come visit us!
Posted August 25, 2009
Jen Nycz to speak at Language Variation and Change
Jen Nycz will be presenting a paper with Dom Watt, Carmen Llamas, Gerry Docherty, & Damien Hall at The 7th UK Language Variation and Change Conference, to be held at Newcastle University (Sept 1-3). The title of the paper is "Variation and Change in /r/ in the Scottish/English borderland".
Posted August 15, 2009
Dan Lassiter to speak at IUC, Croatia
Dan Lassiter is giving a talk on 'Externalist intuitions and coordination games', at the conference Philosophy of Linguistics, Inter-University Center, Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 7-12, 2009.
Posted July 14, 2009
Liina Pylkkanen to speak at the Max Planck Institut in Leipzig
Liina will talk about Studying the neural bases of semantic composition with MEG on July 28.
Posted July 13, 2009
Chris Barker is invited speaker at Colloque de Syntaxe et Semantique a Paris
Chris's CSSP talk is on "Linear implicature and free choice permission".
Posted July 12, 2009
Philipp Angermeyer and Erez Levon in Journal of Sociolinguistics
The latest issue of Journal of Sociolinguistics contains a paper by Philipp Angermeyer (PhD 2006) on "Translation style and participant roles in court interpreting" and one by Erez Levon (PhD 2007) on "Dimensions of style: Context, politics and motivation in gay Israeli speech".
Posted June 30, 2009
Upcoming talk by Vincent Chanethom
Vincent Chanethom will be presenting a paper entitled "Acquisition of English Aspiration: a Longitudinal Study" at the 7th International Symposium on Bilingualism, which will be held at Utrecht, the Netherlands on July 8-11.
Posted June 21, 2009
Jen Nycz to speak at ICLaVE
Jen Nycz will be presenting a paper at ICLaVE (International Conference on Language Variation in Europe), at the University of Copenhagen on behalf of the Accents & Identity on the Scottish-English Border project. The paper is entitled "The Scottish-English Borderland: Phonological Production, Perception and Attitude" (authors: Carmen Llamas, Dominic Watt, Gerry Docherty, Damien Hall & Jennifer Nycz).
Posted June 18, 2009
Paul Postal's book to be published by MIT Press
Paul Postal's book on "Edge-based Clausal Syntax" will be published by the MIT Press. An earlier version is posted at Lingbuzz.
Suzanne Dikker to speak at the Leipzig Max Planck
Suzanne Dikker will give an invited lecture entitled Sensitivity to syntax in visual cortex at the Leipzig Max Planck Institute on July 8th.
Posted June 6, 2009
SSWL, an open-ended database of the syntactic structures of the world's languages
We are pleased to announce SSWL, an open-ended database of the syntactic structures of the world's languages. (Alternatively, Google: sswl database.)
Please feel free to go to the site and play around with it, doing searches and browsing the languages and properties.
Ultimately, we hope to fill the database with thousands of grammatical properties and thousands of languages all provided by members of the wider linguistic community.
If you have any questions or comments, please send them to: linguisticexplorer@gmail.com
Chris Collins
Department of Linguistics
NYU
Posted June 2, 2009
Dan Lassiter, Simon Charlow, Salvador Mascarenhas, and Eytan Zweig at ESSLLI Bordeaux
Cheers to Dan Lassiter, Simon Charlow, Salvador Mascarenhas, and Eytan Zweig (PhD 2007), who will be busy and keeping others busy at ESSLLI (European Summer School on Logic, Language, and Information), Bordeaux, July 20-31.
Dan has three talks (plus papers in the proceedings):
"Symmetric presupposition satisfaction is intra-sentential presupposition correction", Workshop on New Directions in the Theory of Presupposition.
"Vagueness as probabilistic linguistic knowledge", Workshop on Vagueness in Communication.
"The algebraic structure of amounts: evidence from comparatives", ESSLLI Student Session.
Simon has two talks (plus papers in the proceedings):
“Strong predicative presuppositional objects", Workshop on New Directions in the Theory of Presupposition.
"Can DP be a scope island?", ESSLLI Student Session.
Salvador is co-chair of the Logic and Language section of the ESSLLI Student Session.
Eytan co-teaches Plurality and Distributivity Across Language(s) and Logic(s) with George Tsoulas.
Posted May 22, 2009
Liina Pylkkanen to teach at EALing VII, Fall 2009 School in Linguistics
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.
Posted May 14, 2009
Another DURF award
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.
Posted May 11, 2009
Liina Pylkkanen receives Whitehead Fellowship
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".
Posted May 10, 2009
NYU linguists at the Acoustical Society (ASA) workshop
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".
Upcoming talk by Gregory Guy
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.
Posted May 9, 2009
African Linguistics School
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.
Posted May 4, 2009
Amanda Rysling off to IRCS Undergraduate Workshop
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!
NYU linguists at the Eastern Generative Grammar school
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.
Three linguistics majors receive DURF grants
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.
Posted April 28, 2009
NYU Working Papers, Vol. 2
The editors of NYU Working Papers in Linguistics are happy to announce that the second volume of NYUWPL is now online at http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/nyuwpl/.
NYUWPL Volume 2, Spring 2009: Papers in Syntax
Posted April 20, 2009
Upcoming talks of Liina Pylkkanen
Liina Pylkkanen is presenting two papers in May, and Hugh Ragliabati is presenting a third one co-authored with Liina and Hanna Gelfand, this week:
The Anterior Midline Field: Progress Report. Maryland Mayfest: Moving Beyond Truth Conditions: The Computation of Meaning. University of Maryland, College Park, MD. May 8-9, 2009.
Event coercion in brain and development. Events across categories: Theoretical and experimental approaches to event structure. Madrid, Spain. May 27-29, 2009.
Hugh Rabagliati, Hanna Gelfand, Gary Marcus & Liina Pylkkänen: The acquisition of ontological shifts and the process of lexical semantic development. XPrag, April 23-25, Lyon, France.
Posted April 19, 2009
Chris Barker course at the LSA Institute
Chris Barker is going to teach a six-week course in semantics at the 2009 LSA Linguistic Institute (UC Berkeley).
Posted April 16, 2009
Upcoming talks by Maria Gouskova and Violeta Vázquez-Rojas
Maria Gouskova is going to UMass Amherst on April 17 to give a talk on "Unexceptional Segments: A Non-Representational Theory of Yers".
Violeta Vázquez-Rojas Maldonado is giving a talk at SULA5 (Semantics of Under-represented Languages of the Americas) on "Case Marking and Semantic Incorporation in Tarascan", May 15-17.
Posted April 10, 2009
Three NYU linguists get NSF Grad Fellowships
Congratulations to Elika Bergelson, Simon Charlow, and Rachel Flamenbaum on receiving NSF Graduate Fellowships in 2009! Simon is currently a first-year graduate student at NYU. Elika graduated from NYU in 2007 with a BA in Language and Mind, and Rachel's 2007 BA is in Anthropology and Linguistics. For a full list of awards, see the NSF website.
Posted April 7, 2009
Maria Gouskova to talk in Tromsø
Maria Gouskova is going to the Center of Advanced Studies in Theoretical Linguistics in Tromsø, Norway to give two talks: "The prosodic and morphological structure of compounds in Russian" and "A non-representational theory of ghost vowels." The talks will be on April 30.
Posted March 11, 2009
Upcoming talks by Jon Brennan, Vincent Chanethom, Txuss Martin, and Anna Szabolcsi
Jon Brennan will be giving a talk on "Irish pronouns and inflection" at Yale on April 17.
Vincent Chanethom is giving a colloquium talk entitled "Acquisition of English aspiration: a longitudinal study" on April 17 at Syracuse University.
Txuss Martín is presenting a poster on "The internal structure of dative clitics" at the Colloquium on Generative Grammar, to be held in Vitoria, Basque Country, April 1st - 3rd.
Anna Szabolcsi is giving a colloquium on "Raising verbs as quantifiers" at MIT on March 20.
Recent publications by Tom Leu and Chris Barker
Tom Leu, The Internal Syntax of Determiners. PhD Dissertation, 2008. Groninger Arbeiten zur germanistischen Linguistik vol. 47.
Chris Barker, Wild Control Operators, Proceedings of the 36th annual ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages, 2009, ACM 978-1-60558-379-2/09/01, 152--152.
Chris Barker, Clarity and the grammar of skepticism, 2009, Mind and Language.
Chris Barker, Reconstruction as delayed evaluation. In Erhard Hinrichs and John Nerbonne (eds), 2009, Theory and Evidence in Semantics, CSLI Publications.
Chris Barker and Chung-chieh Shan, Donkey anaphora is in-scope binding, 2008, Semantics and Pragmatics, 1.1: 1--46.
Posted March 10, 2009
Very recent publications by Jason Shaw, Diamandis Gafos, Kevin Roon, and Maria Gouskova
Jason Shaw, Temporal evidence for syllabic structure in Moroccan Arabic: data and model. Phonology, 2009 [with A. Gafos, P. Hoole,C. Zeroual].
Jason Shaw, Compensatory lengthening via mora preservation in OT-CC: theory and predictions. NELS 38, 2009.
Maria Gouskova and Kevin Roon, Interface Constraints and Frequency in Russian Compound Stress, to appear in the proceedings of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 17: The Yale meeting.
Posted March 9, 2009
Andrew Canariato to grad school
One of our senior linguistics majors, Andy Canariato, just got accepted to the Ph.D. program in linguistics at Stony Brook. Congratulations, Andy!
Posted March 6, 2009
Recent publications by Richard Kayne
Richard S. Kayne, “Some Preliminary Comparative Remarks on French and Italian Definite Articles”, in R. Freidin, C.P. Otero and M.L. Zubizarreta (eds.) Foundational Issues in Linguistic Theory. Essays in Honor of Jean-Roger Vergnaud, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 291-321. 2008.
Richard S. Kayne, “Expletives, Datives, and the Tension between Morphology and Syntax” in T. Biberauer (ed.) The Limits of Syntactic Variation, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 175-217. 2008.
Richard S. Kayne, “Some Silent First Person Plurals”, in J.M. Brucart, A. Gavarró and J. Solà (eds.) Merging Features. Computation, Interpretation, and Acquisition, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 276-292. 2009.
Richard S. Kayne, “A Note on Auxiliary Alternations and Silent Causation”, in L. Baronian and F. Martineau (eds.) Le français d’un continent à l’autre. Mélanges offerts à Yves Charles Morin, Presses de l’Université Laval, Québec, 211-235. 2009.
Recent publications by Lisa Davidson, Diamandis Gafos, Greg Guy, Kevin Roon, and John Singler
Davidson, Lisa and Kevin Roon. 2008. Durational correlates for differentiating consonant sequences in Russian. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 38:2, 137-165.
Adamantios Gafos, Hoole, P., Roon, K., Zeroual, C. Variation in timing and phonological grammar in Moroccan Arabic clusters. Laboratory Phonology 10: Variation, Detail and Representation, Ed. Cécile Fougeron (Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin/New York).
Gregory R. Guy and Ana M.S. Zilles, Sociolingüística Quantitativa: Instrumental de Análise, São Paulo: Parabola Editorial, 2007.
Singler, John Victor. 2008a. [with Silvia Kouwenberg] The handbook of pidgin and creole studies. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Singler, John Victor. 2008b. The sociolinguistic context of creole genesis. In The handbook of pidgin and creole studies, ed. by Silvia Kouwenberg and John Victor Singler, 332-358. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Singler, John Victor. 2008c. [with Silvia Kouwenberg] Introduction. In The handbook of pidgin and creole studies, ed. by Silvia Kouwenberg and John Victor Singler, 1-16. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Posted March 5, 2009
NYU linguists at ACAL
We have five people going to ACAL this year, including one undergraduate. Shupamem was the language in Chris Collins's field methods course last year.
Verb Focus in Shupamem
Chris Collins and Laziz Nchare
The Definite Interpretation of Shupamem Numerals
Violeta Vázquez Rojas Maldonado
Spatial Expressions in Shupamem
Arhonto Terzi and Laziz Nchare
Contour Tones on Short and Long Vowels in Shupamem
Corey Silverstein
The Syntax of Agreement/Definiteness in
Shupamem DP and Greenberg’s Universal 20
Laziz Nchare
Posted March 4, 2009
Recent publications by Jon Brennan, Suzanne Dikker, Liina Pylkkanen, and Eytan Zweig
Jonathan Brennan, Prepositions in Modern Irish: Agreement and Impoverishment. Proceedings of WCCFL 26, 2008.
Jonathan Brennan, Only Finally. The Proceedings of NELS 37, 2008.
Jon Brennan and Liina Pylkkänen, Processing Events: Behavioral and Neuromagnetic Correlates of Aspectual Coercion. In Brain and Language, 2008.
Suzanne Dikker, Hugh Rabagliati, Liina Pylkkänen, Sensitivity to syntax in visual cortex. Cognition doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2008.09.008
Suzanne Dikker, Spanish prepositions in Media Lengua: redefining relexification, In: Stolz, Thomas, Dik Bakker & Rosa Salas Paloma (eds.), Hispanisation. The Impact of Spanish on the Lexicon and Grammar of the Indigenous Languages of Austronesia and the Americas (EALT 39). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2008.
Pylkkänen, L., Martin, A. E., McElree, B., & Smart, A. (2008). The Anterior Midline Field: Coercion or Decision Making? Brain and Language, doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2008.06.006. [pdf]
Pylkkänen, L. (2008). Mismatching Meanings in Brain and Behavior. Language and Linguistics Compass 2/4, 712¬738.
Pylkkänen, L. (2008). Introducing Arguments. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. [BOOK]
Eytan Zweig & Liina Pylkkänen, (2008). A visual M170 effect of morphological complexity. Language and Cognitive Processes. DOI: 10.1080/01690960802180420.
[pdf]
Posted February 28, 2009
Marcos Rohena-Madrazo at Romance Languages Symposium
Marcos Rohena-Madrazo will be giving a talk titled "Perception of non-native fricative voicing contrasts by Buenos Aires Spanish listeners: does native variation help?" at the 39th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (Tucson AZ, March 28).
Tricia Irwin at CUNY
Tricia Irwin will be giving a talk called "Polarity and Degree in "so totally" Constructions" at the CUNY syntax supper on March 10.
Posted February 27, 2009
More NYU linguists at the CUNY Conference
Suzanne Dikker, Hugh Rabagliati, Thomas A. Farmer (Cornell), and Liina Pylkkanen will give a poster entitled "Sensitivity to syntax in visual cortex: the role of phonological typicality" at the 22nd CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, UC Davis, CA, March 26-28 2009.
Posted February 24, 2009
Jen Nycz off to University of York
In a few weeks, Jen Nycz will be joining the research team of the Accent and Identity on the Scottish~English Border Project at the University of York (UK). The Linguistics program at York is already home to two NYU alumni, Bill Haddican and Eytan Zweig. The University of York is not to be confused with York University in Ontario, which also has an NYU alum on its staff: Philipp Angermeyer.
Posted February 23, 2009
Upcoming talks by NYU linguists
Gregory Guy is attending the International Congress and Institute of the Associação Brasileira de Lingüística (Brazilian Linguistics Association, ABRALIN), in João Pessoa, Brazil, March 5-15. He is presenting a paper on Linguistic minorities in the USA, and teaching a one-week course on language change in progress.
Anna Szabolcsi is giving colloquium on "Raising Verbs as Quantifiers?" on February 27 at the Umass Amherst Department of Linguistics.
Dan Lassiter is giving a talk at the Penn Linguistics Colloquium in Philadelphia on March 29 entitled "Explaining a restriction on the scope of the comparative operator".
Inna Livitz is giving a talk on March 28 at the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing at UC Davis, entitled "The role of animacy information in syntactic processing: a case study of middle constructions."
Posted January 16, 2009
MEG Opening and MEG Analysis Workshop
[Please note RSVP instructions for each event]
Opening Ceremony
The opening ceremony and reception for the new MEG Lab in Psychology
will take place Friday, January 23rd, from 5pm-7pm in Hemmerdinger
Hall, 100 Washington Square East (part of Silver, but with its own
entrance on Wash Sq E). There will be a few short presentations about
MEG and about the history of MEG at NYU, followed by food and drink.
This will be an opportunity to talk informally with experts on MEG and
on the MEG system at NYU, including the team from the Kanazawa
Institute of Technology that designed and built our MEG system.
I believe this will be a fun and informative event, and provide a good
background for those of you contemplating MEG experiments in the
coming years.
Please RSVP to me, Alec Marantz, marantz@nyu.edu , if you think you
will be attending the ceremonies.
Posted December 5, 2008
Undergraduate Linguistics Holiday Party
What: Undergraduate Linguistics Holiday Bash!
Where: Linguistics Department, 726 Broadway, 7th floor, Library
When: Friday, December 12th. 5:00 p.m.--on
Come and meet your fellow linguistics majors and relax a little just before finals, or blow off steam from an exam. All linguists welcome.
Food will be provided along with non-alcoholic beverages!
Posted December 3, 2008
Hanna Gelfand receives DURF grant
Congratulations to one of our linguistics majors, Hanna Gelfand, on receiving a Dean's Undergraduate Research Fund grant for her honors project "The Innateness of Speech Perception and the Importance of the Speech Source." She is working on the project under the direction of Athena Vouloumanos of the Psychology Department.
Posted November 24, 2008
Angela Fink receives DURF grant
Congratulations to one of our linguistics majors, Angela Fink, on receiving a Dean's Undergraduate Research Fund grant! Angela will use the grant to continue working on her honors thesis entitled "The Acoustics of Arabic Pharyngeal and Glottal Fricatives and their Effects on Non-Native Discrimination." The thesis is supervised by Lisa Davidson.
Posted November 18, 2008
Congratulations to Kara Becker and Amy Wong!
Becker and Wong's poster, "The short-a system of New York City English: An update," won the Charles Ferguson Prize at NWAV for the best student poster presentation. The prize carries with it a cash award of $200.
Posted September 22, 2008
David Harrison to speak on Endangered Languages at NY Public Library
Mid-Manhattan Library welcomes
K. David Harrison DISCUSSING
When Languages Die: The Extinctions of the World’s Languages and The Erosion of Human Knowledge
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
6:30 p.m.
on the 6th floor
Mid-Manhattan Library
The New York Public Library
40th Street and 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10016
212-340-0873
Speakers of thousands of the world’s languages are now abandoning their ancestral tongues at an unprecedented rate. What exactly is lost when speakers of indigenous languages switch to speaking English, Hindi, Russian, or other global tongues? Why should we care if small languages vanish?
Languages are the repository of thousands of years of people’s science and art – from observations of ecological patterns to creation myths. The disappearance of a language is not only a loss for the community of speakers itself, but for our common human knowledge of mathematics, biology, geography, philosophy, agriculture, and linguistics. In this century, we are facing a massive erosion of the human knowledge base.
David Harrison is assistant professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College.
Elevators access the 6th floor after p.m.
All programs are FREE.
Posted September 5, 2008
Linguistics Welcome Back Party
The Department of Linguistics is celebrating the beginning of Fall 2008 with a party in the Department Library (726 Broadway, 7th floor) at 5 p.m. on Friday, September 5. All linguists and friends are welcome to attend!
Posted September 2, 2008
Prof. Marantz Honored
Congratulations to Professor Alec Marantz who received the Samuel Williamson award for outstanding contributions to the field of biomagnetic research at the Biomag 2008 conference.
Posted August 19, 2008
Morphology Start Date
Introduction to Morphology at an Advanced Level (G61.1029-001) will NOT meet on September 3rd. The first day for this course will be September 10th.
Please e-mail the instructor, Alec Marantz, at marantz@nyu.edu if you are intending to take this class but did not receive information about changes for the class this semester.
Posted April 24, 2008
Some new publications
Some recent publications by NYU linguists:
Tom Leu, "What for Internally"--in Syntax (2008)
Chris Barker, "Parasitic Scope"--in Linguistics and Philosophy (2008)
Chris Collins, Simanique Moody, and Paul Postal, "An AAE Camouflage Construction"--in Language (2008)
Congratulations!
Posted April 23, 2008
DURF grants for two linguistics majors
Two of our linguistics majors, Amanda Rysling and Ethan Mandel, just received awards from the Dean's Undergraduate Research Fund. Amanda got funding for her project "Computational Principles Underlying Poetic Structures," supervised by Ray Dougherty, and Ethan will be collecting data in Okinawa for his work on phonological reconstruction of Proto-Japanese, "The Search for Japanese Roots: A reconstruction of the Amami Ryukyuan Dialect," under the supervision of John Costello. Congratulations!
Posted February 25, 2008
NYU Linguist in the news
Grad Student Kara Becker was featured in today's AM New York (Feb. 25, 2008). The story, about New York City English, can be found online here. Over 300,000 copies of AM New York are distributed daily. Congrats Kara!
Posted February 19, 2008
Open House Schedule
Participation in the open house is by advance arangement only.
Please contact Chris Barker <chris.barker
nyu.edu> with any
questions about the open house.
Friday morning, 29 February, 2008
9:00-10:00am Breakfast and Introductions
10:00-11:00am Presentation on department and program by Alec Marantz and Chris Barker
11:00-11:45am Subfield meeting: Phonetics & Phonology
12:00-12:45pm Subfield meeting: Sociolinguistics
12:45-2:30pm Lunch locally (graduate students lead groups of at most 10)
2:30-3:15pm Subfield meeting: Neurolinguistics
3:30-4:15pm Subfield meeting: Syntax
4:15-5:00pm More time for meetings
5:00-6:00pm Reception at Department
7:00-9:00 Department-provided dinner at 19 University Place.
9:00pm+:Drinks with Grads
Saturday morning, 1 March, 2008
9:00-10:30am Breakfast and informal meetings
10:30-11:15am Subfield meeting: Semantics
12:00pm+ Groups off on tours of New York, Brooklyn, etc.
Newly admitted students are encouraged to attend at least two but no more than three of the subfield meetings, using the remaining time to make appointments to speak with professors and current graduate students. The purpose of the subfield meetings is to introduce the professors, graduate students, and lab facilities most relevant to the main subdisciplines emphasized at NYU.
Posted February 10, 2008
Open House for Admitted Prospectives
The department will hold an Open House for admitted and wait-listed prospective graduate students on February 29 - March 1 (Friday-Saturday), 2008. Prospective students should arrive on February 28 (Thursday). The organized program starts Friday morning.
Sunday will be free for enjoying New York City. The department will provide accommodation and contribute to the travel expenses of those admitted to the program.
Posted June 17, 2007
Department Moved
The Department of Linguistics has moved. As of Monday, June 25th 2007 we are located at 726 Broadway, 7th Floor.
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