NYU Linguistics http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/ Official news and events of the NYU Linguistics Department en Copyright 2012 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:29:26 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Colloquium: Sarah Thomason (Mar. 2) Sarah Thomason (University of Michigan) will give a colloquium talk on Friday, March 2, at 4pm in Room 104 of 10 Washington Place. The title and abstract are below.

Title: Contact-Induced Language Change and Typological Congruence

Abstract:

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2012/02/colloquium_sarah_thomason_mar.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2012/02/colloquium_sarah_thomason_mar.html 2012 Spring Colloquium Sociolinguistics Title/Abstract Upcoming Talks Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:29:26 -0500 Dean's Undergraduate Research Fund news Cheers to Colin Coltrera and Donna Kiessling, who are recipients of DURF grants for Spring 2012. Their respective faculty sponsors are John Costello and Renee Blake.

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2012/02/deans_undergraduate_research_f.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2012/02/deans_undergraduate_research_f.html Announcements Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:28:42 -0500 Tim Leffel's and Lucas Champollion's GLOW posters Tim Leffel is going to present a poster on "Non-restrictive adjectives and the theory of scalar implicature" and Lucas Champollion on "Temporal dependencies: anaphora vs. movement" at GLOW 35, Potsdam, March 28-30.

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2012/02/tim_leffels_and_lucas_champoll.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2012/02/tim_leffels_and_lucas_champoll.html Announcements Upcoming Talks Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:47:18 -0500 Colloquium: Juliette Blevins (Feb. 10) Juliette Blevins will give a colloquium talk on Friday, Feb. 10, at 4pm in Room 104 of 10 Washington Place. The title and abstract are below.

Title: Duality of Patterning: Absolute Universal or Statistical Tendency?

Abstract:

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2012/02/colloquium_juliette_blevins_fe.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2012/02/colloquium_juliette_blevins_fe.html 2012 Spring Colloquium Phonetics/Phonology Title/Abstract Upcoming Talks Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:38:05 -0500 Papers by Pylkkänen and colleagues The following articles by Liina Pylkkänen, Jon Brennan (NYU PhD 2010), and Hugh Rabagliati (NYU PhD 2010) are now published online, ahead of print:

Brennan J, Pylkkänen L. (2012). The time-course and spatial distribution of brain activity associated with sentence processing. Neuroimage. Jan 9. epub

Rabagliati H, Pylkkänen L, Marcus GF. (2012). Top-down influence in young children's linguistic ambiguity resolution. Developmental Psychology. Jan 9. epub

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2012/02/papers_by_pylkkanen_and_collea.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2012/02/papers_by_pylkkanen_and_collea.html Announcements Recent Publications Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:28:43 -0500 Maria Gouskova's article in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory Maria Gouskova's article on “Unexceptional segments” has just appeared in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 30:1, pp. 79--133. See the pre-publication version here.

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2012/01/maria_gouskovas_article_in_nat_1.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2012/01/maria_gouskovas_article_in_nat_1.html Announcements Recent Publications Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:30:58 -0500 Six PhD dissertations from 2011 We celebrate our PhD alumni who defended and filed their dissertations during the calendar year 2011 or in January 2012. The dissertations can be accessed at their homepages and at the (pdf) links below.

Sonya Fix
"Dark-Skinned White Girls": Linguistic and Ideological Variation Among White Women with African American Ties in the Urban Midwest pdf

Daniel Lassiter
Measurement and Modality: The Scalar Basis of Modal Semantics pdf

Txuss Martín
Deconstructing Catalan Object Clitics pdf

Abdoulaye Laziz Nchare
The Grammar of Shupamem pdf

Laura Rimell
Nominal Roots as Event Predicates in English Denominal Conversion Verbs pdf

Marcos Rohena-Madrazo
Sociophonetic Variation in the Production and Perception of Obstruent Voicing in Buenos Aires Spanish pdf

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2012/01/six_phd_dissertations_from_201_1.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2012/01/six_phd_dissertations_from_201_1.html Announcements News from our alumni Recent Publications Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:19:46 -0500 Cara Shousterman accepts Dissertation Fellowship Cheers to Cara Shousterman, who has just accepted the GSAS Dean's Dissertation Fellowship for 2012/13.

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2012/01/cara_shousterman_accepts_disse.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2012/01/cara_shousterman_accepts_disse.html Announcements Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:45:17 -0500 Spring 2012 Syntax/Semantics Brown Bag schedule [updated] Unless otherwise noted, all talks will take place on Friday from 1.30-3pm in Room 103 of 10 Washington Place. See the Brown Bag website for details and updates.

February 3rd- Jim Wood (NYU)
February 10th- Omer Preminger (Harvard/MIT)
March 2nd- Jeffrey Watumull (University of Cambridge/MIT)
March 19th- Jessica Coon (McGill) (Special Time: Monday, 12.30-2pm)
March 23rd- Meera Saeed Al Kaabi (NYU)
April 6th- Ruth Kramer (Georgetown University)
May 4th- Gisli Har∂arson (UConn)

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Jan 27: Kikuyo Ito, CUNY Graduate Center
Feb 10: Lisa Davidson (with Sean Martin and Colin Wilson)
Feb 24 (2-3:30pm): Annual Conference on African Linguistics practice talks. Presenters: Melanie Pangilinan (Central Connecticut State University), Seunghun Lee (Central Connecticut State University), Sang-Im Lee (NYU), and Shigeto Kawahara (Rutgers University), "An acoustic comparison of palatal fricatives and whistled fricatives in Xitsonga" and Tim Mathes (NYU) Title TBA
Mar 9 (Open House week)
Mar 30: Neil Myler
Apr 13: Kathleen Currie Hall, College of Staten Island/CUNY Graduate Center
Apr 27: Sangjin Hwang
May 4: TBA

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2012/01/pep_lab_schedule_for_spring_20.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2012/01/pep_lab_schedule_for_spring_20.html 2012 Spring Phonetics/Phonology Schedule Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:05:29 -0500 Chris Barker talk at Vagueness workshop Chris Barker is giving an invited talk on "Negotiating Temperature Standards" at the workshop on Vagueness in Language, Reasoning, and Cognition, Amsterdam, January 27-28.

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2012/01/chris_barker_talk_at_vagueness.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2012/01/chris_barker_talk_at_vagueness.html Announcements Upcoming Talks Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:42:30 -0500 Sang-Im Lee at the 43rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics Sang-Im is one of the authors on a talk with Melanie Pangilinan, Seunghun Lee, and Shigeto Kawahara: "An acoustic comparison of palatal fricatives and whistled fricatives in Xitsonga." The conference is in New Orleans on March 15-17.

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2012/01/sangim_lee_at_the_43rd_annual.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2012/01/sangim_lee_at_the_43rd_annual.html Phonetics/Phonology Upcoming Talks Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:40:05 -0500 Harves & Kayne paper in Linguistic Inquiry Having ‘Need’ and Needing ‘Have’, co-authored by Stephanie Harves and Richard Kayne has appeared in the Winter 2012 issue of Linguistic Inquiry.

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2012/01/harves_kayne_paper_in_linguist_1.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2012/01/harves_kayne_paper_in_linguist_1.html Announcements Recent Publications Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:46:36 -0500 Papers by Champollion, Schlenker, and Szabolcsi You may enjoy the comparative reading of three NYU semanticists' views on what it takes to do justice to quantification, in "Formal Semantics And Pragmatics: Discourse, Context And Models," the online proceedings of the eponymous 2010 Riga conference,

Quantification and negation in event semantics, by Lucas Champollion
Quantifiers and variables: insights from sign language (ASL and LSF), by Philippe Schlenker
Certain verbs are syntactically explicit quantifiers, by Anna Szabolcsi

and in "Linguistics and Philosophy" online first,

Donkey anaphora: the view from sign language (ASL and LSF), by Philippe Schlenker .

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2012/01/papers_by_champollion_schlenke_1.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2012/01/papers_by_champollion_schlenke_1.html Announcements Recent Publications Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:55:13 -0500 Txuss Martin dissertation defense Cheers to Txuss Martin, who successfully defended his dissertation on "Deconstructing Catalan Object Clitics." His committee consisted of Richard S. Kayne (chair), Mark Baltin, Cedric Boeckx (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Stephanie Harves, and Alec Marantz.

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2011/12/txuss_martin_dissertation_defe.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/2011/12/txuss_martin_dissertation_defe.html Announcements Recent Publications Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:11:54 -0500