NYU Linguistics http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/ Official news and events of the NYU Linguistics Department en Copyright 2009 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:48:18 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 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.


]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/11/kara_becker_in_journal_of_soci.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/11/kara_becker_in_journal_of_soci.html Announcements Recent Publications Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:48:18 -0500 Arthur Wang dissertation in syntax Three cheers to Arthur, who has filed his dissertation entitled "The Microparametric Syntax of Resultatives in Chinese Languages". Committee Co-chairs: Chris Collins and Richard Kayne. Committee Members: Mark Baltin, Alec Marantz and C.-T. James Huang.

The dissertation is posted at Arthur's home page.

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/11/arthur_wang_dissertation_in_sy.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/11/arthur_wang_dissertation_in_sy.html Recent Publications Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:07:10 -0500 Talks by John Singler 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.

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/10/talks_by_john_singler.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/10/talks_by_john_singler.html Upcoming Talks Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:00:20 -0500 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!

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/10/amanda_rysling_is_silverstein.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/10/amanda_rysling_is_silverstein.html Announcements Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:58:25 -0500 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

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/10/sonya_fix_wins_nwav_38_best_st.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/10/sonya_fix_wins_nwav_38_best_st.html Announcements Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:59:05 -0500 Syntax Brown Bag: Dennis Ott (Oct. 30) 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

Abstract:

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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])

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]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/10/maria_gouskova_to_speak_at_mit.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/10/maria_gouskova_to_speak_at_mit.html Announcements Upcoming Talks Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:34:25 -0500 Colloquium: Chris Kennedy (Oct 30) 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.

Abstract:

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Abstract:

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/10/colloquium_norbert_hornstein_n.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/10/colloquium_norbert_hornstein_n.html 2009 Fall Colloquium Events Title/Abstract Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:48:38 -0500 Phonetics and Experimental Phonology Seminar Schedule, Fall 2009 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

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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'

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/10/nyu_linguists_at_nwav_38_ottaw.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/10/nyu_linguists_at_nwav_38_ottaw.html Announcements Upcoming Talks Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:05:48 -0500 Syntax Brown Bag: Tom Roeper (Oct 23) Tom Roeper (UMass) will present a Brown Bag on Oct 23 at 1:30pm in 10 WP, room 103.

"Vacate Phase and Presupposition Guarantee"

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/10/syntax_brown_bag_tom_roeper_oc.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/10/syntax_brown_bag_tom_roeper_oc.html 2009 Fall Events Syntax Brown Bag Title/Abstract Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:33:25 -0500 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.


]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/10/upcoming_talks_of_marcos_rohen.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/10/upcoming_talks_of_marcos_rohen.html Announcements Upcoming Talks Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:06:16 -0500 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.

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/10/nyu_linguists_at_nels.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2009/10/nyu_linguists_at_nels.html Announcements Upcoming Talks Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:13:03 -0500