NYU Linguistics

Halldor Sigurdsson, from Lund University, will give a talk in the NYU
Linguistics Colloquium Series this Friday 11/20 at 4:00pm. The title
of the talk is "Natural Nulls," abstract included below.

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Roni Katzir will be giving a syntax brown bag on Friday Nov 6 at 1:30pm.

Title: On the roles of context and structure in the theory of alternatives
(Joint work with Danny Fox, MIT)

Abstract:
We present an argument for revising the theory of alternatives for Scalar Implicatures and for Association with Focus. We argue that in both cases, the alternatives are determined in the same way, as a contextual restriction of the focus value of the sentence, which, in turn, is defined in structure-sensitive terms. We provide evidence that contextual restriction is subject to a constraint that prevents it from discriminating between alternatives when they stand in a particular logical relationship with the assertion or the prejacent, a relationship that we refer to as symmetry. Due to the constraint on contextual restriction, discriminating between alternatives in cases of symmetry becomes the task of focus values. This conclusion is incompatible with standard type-theoretic definitions of focus values, motivating our structure-sensitive definition instead.

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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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])

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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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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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

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

"Vacate Phase and Presupposition Guarantee"

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.

Christine Mallinson (UMaryland, Baltimore County) will present a talk entitled "Bridging Professional and Public Linguistics" in the colloquium on Friday, October 9 in 10 Washington Place (first floor classroom). A reception will follow in the second floor.

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In the Fall of 2009, the Phonetics and Experimental Phonology Lab will meet every other Tuesday from 1:30 to 3 p.m. on the 5th floor of 10 Washington Place. For the most up-to-date schedule and other information, please check out the Lab's website. The current line-up:

9/29: Maria Gouskova
10/13: Marcos Rohena-Madrazo
10/20: Kevin Roon and Adamantios Gafos
10/27: TBA
11/13: TBA
11/24: TBA
12/8: Adam Buchwald

Katherine Demuth (Brown) will present her talk titled "Phonological Constraints on Morphological Development" in the colloquium on Friday, Sept. 25th in 10 Washington Place (first floor classroom). A reception will follow in the second floor.

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The brown bag schedule for Fall, 2009 is...

Benjamin Spector - CANCELLED -

Tom Roeper - Friday, Oct. 23

Dennis Ott (Harvard) - Friday, Oct. 30

Roni Katzir - Friday, Nov. 6

Judy Bernstein and Raffaella Zanuttini - Friday, Dec. 4

John Hale (Cornell) will be giving a colloquium talk next Friday, September 18th titled "What a rational parser would do". The talk will be in the linguistics building at 10 Washington Place, 1st floor. A reception will be held afterwords right upstairs on the 2nd floor.

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Please save these upcoming dates for colloquium lectures this fall and spring. We have an exciting lineup this year!

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FALL 2009
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John Hale (Cornell) 9/18

Katherine Demuth (Brown) 9/25

Christine Mallinson (U. Maryland, Baltimore County) 10/9

Chris Kennedy (Chicago) 10/30

Norbert Hornstein (Maryland) 11/6

Halldór Sigurðsson (Lund University) 11/20