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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"
