Colloquia and talks (2008–2009)

Winter 2009

Tomas Riad, University of Stockholm and Research Fellow, Swedish Academy
Friday, January 23, 2009, 4:00PM
Location: Humanities One Building, Room 210
Title: Morphological distribution of tone in Swedish
The abstract is available here.

Yuan Zhao, Stanford University
Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 4:00PM
Location: Humanities One Building, Room 202
Title: The Role of Probability in the Production and Learning of Lexical Tone Categories
The abstract is available here.

Jason Shaw, NYU and Haskins Labs
Wednesday, Feb 4, 2009, 4:00PM
Location: Humanities One Building, Room 202
Title: The temporal organization of syllabic structure
The abstract is available here.

Anne Pycha, IRCS, University of Pennsylvania
Wednesday, Feb 11, 2009, 4:00PM
Location: Silverman Conference Room
Title: Deep differences between phonetic and phonological lengthening: Evidence from speech production
The abstract is available here.

Michael Proctor, Yale University and Haskins Labs
Friday, Feb 20, 2009, 3:30PM
Location: Humanities One Building, Room 202
Title: Phonetic characterization of a problematic class: the liquids
The abstract is available here.

Grant McGuire, UCSC
Wednesday, Feb 25, 2009, 4:00PM
Location: Humanities One Building, Room 202
Title: Effects of linguistic structure and bias on the use of phonetic cues in categorization
The abstract is available here.

This information is brought to you by the colloquium committee:
Ryan Bennett,
Allison Day,
Robert Henderson,
Alexa Mater,
Matt Tucker,
Debbie Belville (LRC Coordinator)

Colloquium schedules from previous years may be found here.