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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