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2015
January 2015
SoConDi: Haley Heaton on "Prosody of Southern television characters"
HistLing: Sally Thomason on sound suppression and sound change
MLK Colloquium: Walt Wolfram (NC State)
Phondi: Kuniko Nielsen on nasality and VOT
Pizza and a Movie: "First Language: The Race to Save Cherokee"
February 2015
HistLing: Piotr Michalowski: Changing a dead language: the standardization of Sumerian
Colloquium: Acrisio Pires: "Syntactic competence and access to Universal Grammar by second language learners"
SoConDi: Group member introductions with prospective students
SynSem: Shim and Epstein on "Unification of Theta Relations"
Phondi: Dave Ogden: "Phonetic Context Effects in L2 Phonetic Category Discrimination"
Linguistics Journal Club: "How Nature Meets Nurture"
SonConDi: Eric Acton on pragmatics and social meaning
HistLing: English as a Viking Language
Phondi: Benjamin Swets on "Individual Variation in the Scope of Sentence Planning"
Colloquium: Lisa Green, UMass "Inversion in African American English: When Negation Isn’t Enough"
Phondi: Emily M. Provost, "Human-Centered Computing: Using Speech to Understand Behavior"
Faculty Brown Bag Lunch
March 2015
Colloquium: Meredith Tamminga (UPenn) "Towards a dynamic view of sociolinguistic production"
SoConDi: Anastasia Smirnova on "Linguistic biases survive a military conflict: Language ideology in Ukraine"
HistLing: Ben Fortson on "Reflections on retroflexion across word-boundary in the Rigveda: Knotty, naughty, and nutty nati."
Phondi: Sagan Blue
LINGFO: Linguistics Information Session
SynSem: Jan-Wouter Zwart presents
Linguistics Journal Club: Fodor on the mind and cognitive science
Phondi: San Duanmu "Phonological Analysis and Marginal Syllables"
Colloquium: Barbra Meek: Idealizing (NDN) language
SoConDi: Tridha Chatterjee and Marlyse Baptista on :Copular predicates in Bengali"
SynSem: Marjorie Herbert on Language Change in German Sign Language
HistLing: Bill Baxter on Tangut
Phondi: Kate Sherwood
April 2015
Capstone Seminar Poster Presentations
Colloquium: Sujeewa Hettiarachchi and Batia Snir (Linguistics Graduate Students)
Phondi: Coetzee, García-Amaya and Henriksen: Rhythmic transfer in language contact: Spanish and Afrikaans in Patagonia
HistLing: Ben Fortson on the history of Burushaski
Phondi: Krivokapic et al: "Temporal effects of prosodic structure on articulatory and manual gestures"
Colloquium: Amy Schafer: "Processing coreference: Evidence from Korean, English, and Japanese/Korean learners of English"
Phondi: Pam Beddor & Andries Coetzee: "The relation between production and perception of coarticulation"
2014
December 2014
Department Holiday Lunch
Capstone Poster Sessions
Colloquium: Yan Dong and Will Nediger
SoConDi: Ariana Bancu on "Transylvanian Saxon in Romania"
HistLing: Ratliff and Taguchi on Mo Piu (North Vietnam)
Phondi: Theo Stern on South African English Vowels in the UK
Faculty Brown Bag Lunch
November 2014
SoConDi
SynSem: Batia Snir on "Coherence Relations"
HistLing: Marcus Berger on Proto-Zaparoan Syntax
Phondi: O'Shannessy/Bancu on the Phonology of Mixed Languages
Colloquium: Robert Podesva on the Three Waves in Sociolinguistics
SenSem: Smirnova on Evidentiality in Bulgarian
SoConDi: Tridha Chatterjee on English acquisition by English-Bengali speakers
Phondi: Yan Dong on elastic word length in Chinese
Faculty Brown Bag Lunch
Journal Club: Utopian for Beginners
Hist Ling: Ben Fortson reports on UCLA Indo-European Conference
October 2014
SoConDi: Sandhya Narayanan on Quechua-Aymara-Spanish contact
Phondi: Arthur Brakel on Portuguese verb structure
Colloquium: Nicholas Henriksen on "Vowel harmony in Eastern Andalusian Spanish"
SoConDi: Hayley Heaton on Southern Dialects on TV
Linguistics Department Undergraduate Open House
Phondi: Harim Kwon on Korean stops
Journal Club Meeting
SynSem: Marjorie Herbert on German Sign Language
HistLing: Coptic in the history of Egypt
Colloquium: Patricia Keating (UCLA) - "Linguistic Voice Quality"
SoConDi/SynSem: Discussion about semantic fieldwork
Phondi: Henriksen et al. on falsetto in Andalusian Spanish
September 2014
SynSem: Will Nediger presents
HistLing: Organizational & Sally Thomason on Pacific Northwest Languages
SoConDi: Organizational & Carmel on her fieldwork
Phondi: Theo Stern on high, front vowels in South African English
Colloquium: Adriana Hanulikova (University of Freiburg, Germany -"How does the brain deal with language variability?"
Colloquium: Adriana Hanulikova (University of Freiburg, Germany) - "How does the brain deal with language variability?"
HistLing/SoConDi: Bilingual Language Development: Turkish and German in Berlin 1983-2013
Phondi: Organizational meeting
April 2014
Capstone Poster Session
Grad Student Colloquium - Stephen Tyndall & Jae-Young Shim
Syntax/Semantics - Sujeewa Hettiarachchi
HistLing
Phondi
Colloquium: Heather Brookes - "Urban Youth ‘Languages’ in South Africa: A Case Study of tsotsitaal in a South African township"
SoConDi - Ariana Bancu
Phondi
HistLing
Phondi
March 2014
Department Journal Club
Phondi
Colloquium: Robert Henderson - "Dependent Indefinites and Their Post-Suppositions"
SoConDi - Barb Meek (SALSA keynote)
HistLing
Phondi
Workshop on Theory and Method in Linguistic Reconstruction
Workshop on Theory and Method in Linguistic Reconstruction
Syntax/Semantics
Workshop on Theory and Method in Linguistic Reconstruction
Phondi
February 2014
Colloquium: Jon Brennan - "Linking Linguistic and Neural Impairments in Autism"
SoConDi - Dave Ogden (Corpus Analysis of Child Language)
HistLing
Syntax/Semantics - Marcus Berger
Phondi
Department Journal Club
Phondi
SoConDi - Daniel Davis (Teaching Courses on Arab American English)
January 2014
Colloquium: Shigeru Miyagawa - "The Integration Hypothesis of Human Language Evolution and Its Implications for the Study of Contemporary Languages"
Syntax/Semantics - Danuta Allen
HistLing
Phondi
Department Journal Club
SoConDi - Language and Diversity on Campus Brainstorm
Phondi
Colloquium: Carole Chaski - "Science and Conscience in Forensic Linguistics"
HistLing
Phondi
2013
December 2013
Syntax/Semantics: Ed Cormany
Graduate Student Colloquium - Tridha Chatterjee and Harim Kwon
SoConDi: Marlyse Baptista
HistLing
PhonDi Research Group - Nick Henriksen
November 2013
SoConDi: Inge Kral - Youth Language in Australia
HistLing
PhonDi: Jelena Krivokapic
Agraphia Discussion Group
Linguistics Department Undergraduate Open House
Colloquium: Mark Janse - "Definitely an Object? Differential Object Marking and Agglutinative Inflections in Asia Minor Greek"
SoConDi: Robin Queen
HistLing: Mark Janse - "Wanna Be a Dennil Floss Tycoon? The development of dental fricatives in Cappadocian (Asia Minor Greek)
PhonDi: San Duanmu
Agraphia Discussion Group
Syntax/Semantic Discussion Group
PhonDi: Yan Dong
October 2013
Cognitive Science Major Information Session
Department Journal Club Meeting
SoConDi: Hayley Heaton - Authenticity in the portrayal of Brenda Johnson in "The Closer"
Agraphia Discussion Group
Colloquium: John Hale - "Entropy Reduction and the Subject Advantage across East Asian Languages"
Syntax/Semantic Discussion Group
PhonDi: Theo Stern
Historical Linguistics Discussion Group
Agraphia Discussion Group
Colloquium: Rajesh Bhatt - "An Argument for Semantically Contentful Head Movement"
SoConDi: John Swales - Citation Practices
PhonDi: Jiseung Kim
September 2013
Syntax/Semantics Discussion Group
Colloquium: Marlyse Baptista, Susan Gelman & Erica Beck - "Testing the Convergence Hypothesis in Creole Genesis"
Syntax/Semantics Discussion Group
Historical Linguistics Discussion Group
PhonDi: Harim Kwon
Dissertation Defense: Erica Beck - "The Role of Socio-indexical Information in Regional Accent Discrimination by 5-7 Year Old Children"
April 2013
Journal Club Meeting: Infant and Pet Directed Speech
SoConDi: Anne Curzan on Prescriptivism
HistLing: Stephen Tyndall on Akkadian Gender Morphology
Phondi: Nick Henrickson on the prosody of Manchego Spanish
Colloquium: Andrew Wedel
Phondi: Kuniko Nielsen on phonetic imitation
March 2013
Joint Phondi/SoConDi Meeting: Amy Hemmeter on Vocal Fry
HistLing Meeting: Bill Baxter on Tibetan Tonogenesis
Mid-Phon 18
Colloquium speaker: Eric Russell Webb
SoConDi: Nick Emlen presents
HistLing Meeting: Discussion of Bowern's paper on syntactic change
Phondi: Sagan Blue and Kate Sherwood present
SoConDi Meeting: Hayley Heaton on Lebanese English in the South
February 2013
Colloquium: Ezra Keshet on the Effect of Context on Meaning
Syntax/Semantics Discussion Group: Chou and Hettiarachchi presents
Joint HistLing/SoConDi Meeting: Sally Thomason presents
Phondi: Jon Yip presents
Journal Club Meeting: McConnel-Ginet on "Words in the World"
SoConDi meeting: Roland Kouassi on Urban Talk in Post-Colonial Africa
HistLing Meeting: Nick Emlen
Phondi: San Duanmu on "word stretching" in Chinese
Linguistic Institute Information Session
Colloquium speaker: Lisa Levinson
SoConDi: Research roundup
Phondi Meeting: (i) Mike Opper presents, (ii) Information about MidPhon
January 2013
MLK Colloquium with Ann Charity Hudley
2012
December 2012
Phondi Meeting: Kuniko Nielsen presents
November 2012
SoConDi: Hayley Heaton presents
HistLing Meeting:Stephen Tyndall presents
Phondi Meeting: Mike Opper presents
Colloquium: Rick Lewis (U-M Psychology Department)
Journal Club Meeting: On the reliability of data in syntax
SoCondi: Karla Mallette on Lingua Franca
HistLing Meeting: Bailey Doolittle on Middle English Syntax
Phondi Meeting: Yan Dong presents
Film Screening: Voices from El-Sayed
Phondi Meeting: Nick Henriksen presents
October 2012
Syn/Sem Discussion: Presentation by Marisa Boston
SoConDi: Sally Thomason on Language Endangerment
HistLing: Bill Baxter presents on Chinese etymology
Phondi Meeting: Andries Coetzee on voicing co-ocurrence in Afrikaans
Journal Club Meeting: Poplack on syntax and language contact
Phondi Meeting: Jon Yip presents
Rackham Centennial Colloquium: Loraine Obler (The City University of New York)
SoConDi: Q&A with Alison Cornish
Syntax Support Group: Presentation by Ljiljana Progovac
HistLing: Sound change in Elvish
Department Coffee Hour
Phondi Meeting: Discussing paper by Andrew Wedel
September 2012
Phondi Meeting: San Duanmu presents
First meeting of the new Journal Club
HistLing Meeting: Mythbusters
SoConDi: Organizational meeting
Syntax/Semantics Discussion Group: David Medeiros to present
Fall Welcome Picnic
Departmental Round Table Colloquium
Phondi: Organizational Meeting
February 2012
Recruitment Colloquium-department speaker TBD
2011
December 2011
December 9, 2011-Student Colloquium
November 2011
November 18, 2011-Diogo Almeida
November 4, 2011-Katherine Kinzler
October 2011
October 21, 2011-Pieter Muysken
September 2011
September 23, 2011-Barbra Meek
May 2011
Ling Faculty Retreat
April 2011
Ling Department Graduation Reception
Winter Classes End
HistLing Discussion Group-Sally Thomason
On NPs, Clauses, Phrases, Everything…
March 2011
Barbra Meek (Cancelled), University of Michigan
Rethinking Language Revitalization
February 2011
Language Digitization
Lexical category variation and the grammar of property concepts
January 2011
The emergence of hybrid grammars: Contact, Language Change and Creation
2010
December 2010
En Nuestra Lengua: L1 acquisition of object pronouns in Heritage Spanish-English speakers
November 2010
Linguistic Methodology in Editing Old English Laws
October 2010
Tracking Choice
Linguistic Structure and Linguistic Working Memory
Linguistic Masking in Speech-in-Speech Perception
September 2010
Colloqium, Round Table Discussion
March 2010
Syllable Onsets in Haitian and Saramaccan: Between Substrate and Superstrate
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