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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"

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

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

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"