News & Events
Colloquia 2008–2009
All colloquia take place on Thursdays from 3:30pm to 5:00pm in Cobb 201, unless indicated otherwise.
Fall
October 23: Paul Portner, Georgetown University,
Two Problems about Permission
October 30: Diane Brentari, Purdue University,
When does a system become phonological? Grammatical regularities at the interfaces.
November 4: Matthias Brenzinger, University of Cologne,
Changing roles for African languages in the past, present, and future
This colloquium will take place on a special date, time and place:
4-5:30pm, Harper 103
November 13: Duane Watson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Prosody, Production, and Parsing
November 20: Luis López Carretero, University of Illinois at Chicago,
A thing or two that I learned studying dislocations
December 4: Alicia Wassink, University of Washington,
The Development of Sociolinguistic Competence in Children
Winter
January 15: Tania Ionin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
The scope of
English indefinites: an experimental investigation
January 20 (Tuesday): Greg Kobele, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin,
On Syntactic Copying
Room change: Rosenwald 11
January 29: Tim Hunter, University of Maryland, College Park
Procedures for Computing in Syntax and Semantics
March 5: Keren Rice, University of Toronto
What determines morpheme order in the Athapaskan verb?
Spring
April 2: Adam Albright, MIT
Rabbitometry vs. rabbitography: phonetic faithfulness and affix-by-affix differences in derived words
April 30: Teresa Satterfield, University of Michigan
Testing Language Formation Theories: Computer experiments as
linguistic time machines
May 14: Nick Fleisher, Wayne State University (Cancelled)
Attributive Adjectives and the Semantics of Inappropriateness
May 21: Ryan Shosted, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Still breathing? The state of aerodynamics in phonetics and phonology
June 1: Shigeto Kawahara, Rutgers University
Testing P-map
Note: Monday colloquium, to be held in Harper 103 from 3:30 to 5pm.
June 4: Rob Podesva, Georgetown University
The social meaning of released /t/ among U.S. politicians: Insights from production and perception
Colloquia in the Chicago area
Linguistics talks at Northwestern University
Cognitive Science talks at Northwestern University