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Anne Sturgeon "Paradigm Uniformity: Evidence for Inflectional Bases"
Adam Ussishkin & Andy Wedel for a paper on Gestural Molecules and Loan Word Adaptation.
Adam Albright "A quantitative study of Spanish paradigm gaps"
The INVITED SPEAKERS for WCCFL are:
Tom Wasow, Stanford University
Book Announcement: Postverbal Behavior
Why Are Natural Languages So Ambiguous?
Doug Pulleyblank, University of British Columbia
[Title, TBA]
Mary Beckman, The Ohio State University
Input Representations (Inside The Mind & Out)
For more information, see: http://ling.ucsd.edu/wccfl-22/
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Congratulations to Adam Albright, whose paper "Islands of
reliability for regular morphology: Evidence from Italian"
appeared this week in Language 78, no. 4.
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Geoff Pullum and Rodney Huddleston's article, "Of Grammatophobia" appeared in the January 3, 2003 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education. A copy of the article is posted in the LCR.
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The Workshop on Ellipsis which was held last Friday and Saturday was really good, well attended and a lot of fun. Attendees also came from Stanford and UC Berkeley. UCSC was well-represented in the talks by alumni Chris Kennedy and Jason Merchant. Chris Kennedy's student at Northwestern, Will Thompson, also made a presentation. Other invited speakers were Lyn Frazier and Kyle Johnson from UMass and Pauline Jacobson from Brown University. Many thanks go to Jim McCloskey and Jorge Hankamer for organizing the event, Bill Ladusaw and Ken Christopher for hosting the delicious 'working' luncheon on Saturday, and to Jorge for giving a party Saturday evening. The workshop was sponsored by the Mind and Meaning Project of the Institute for Humanities Research at UC Santa Cruz.
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Psychology Department
Colloquium Series
Social Sciences 2, 121
3:30-5:00 pm
Cognitive Program: Friday, January 24 (8:30 am)
Dept-wide job talk for faculty recruit candidate
Su-hua Wang, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
"Manipulating Infants' Expectations of Physical Events"
Anyone needing special arrangements to accommodate a disability is encouraged to call Beverly at 459-5084.
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The Linguistic Data Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania
(www.ldc.upenn.edu) needs participants for FISHER, a new telephone speech
study to be conducted in the Early Winter 2002-2003. The FISHER project
will be undertaken to support linguistic research, technology development
and education. All calls will be recorded for these purposes. Participant
identities will be kept strictly confidential and not released with the data.
FISHER participants will take part in 1 to 3 telephone calls talking to
other participants on suggested topics for ten minutes. FISHER topics can
be found at the URL below:
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Projects/EARS/Fisher/topics.html
A robot operator will initiate all calls. Participants need only answer
their phones at the time they specify during the registration process.
Participants will be compensated $10 per call. In addition, for each call
made, participants will be eligible for 1 chance at (3) $1000.00 lottery
prizes.
To register for this study please see the following page:
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Projects/EARS/Fisher/intro.html
or call 1-800-380-PENN, to register and for more information.