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WHASC Newsletter January 25, 2005
("What's Happening at Santa Cruz")
WHASC is the weekly electronic newsletter of the UCSC Linguistics
Department. We welcome your news items, comments and feedback.
NOTE: WHASC will now come out on Tuesdays. Please send your news items in by 12 noon on Tuesday.
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COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE
FEB 2005
Fri 4 Keith Johnson (UC Berkeley phonetician): "The language-specificity of speech perception"
Fri 11 Chris Barker (UCSD): Parasitic scope
Fri 18 Daniel Kaufman (Cornell University/UCSC): "Explaining the affix place/shape generalization"
Fri 25
MAR 2005
Fri 4 probably no colloquium (LASC is the next day)
Fri 11
Fri 18 quarter ends
Wed 30 linguist/philosopher Jason Stanley visiting SCLL* group
Thu 31 Jason Stanley Philosophy Colloquium
*SCLL is a reading group in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. For more information, contact Chris Hom (chom@ucsc.edu ).
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Philosophy Colloquium
Helen Lang
Philosophy Department, Villanova University
"Ancient Thought Through Modern Disciplines: The Importance of Classical Studies"
2:00 p.m. Thursday, January 27
Stevenson College Library
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MUSICAL FORM AND COGNITION
Thursday, January 27th
7 p.m., Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center
Mark Liberman, University of Pennsylvania
John Halle, Yale University
The Language and Poetic form workshop has addressed the connection between
linguistic structure and literary form, bringing together poets with an
interest in linguistics and linguists with an interest in poetry for
talks and informal discussion. In our next meeting we will examine parallel
issues involving music. Generative theories of music, just as theories of
poetic meter, have relied heavily on linguistic theories of prosodic structure.
In the Jan. 27th meeting entitled 'Musician Form and Cognition', we will bring
together Mark Liberman, a phonologist and cognitive scientist whose theory of
stress and rhythm has influenced generative theories of music, and John
Halle, a composer and music theorist.
As always, the Thursday talks will be followed by the informal discussion
on Friday noon, Jan. 28th, Margaret Jacks Hall Room 126, (460-126). We
hope to see you there.
More details on Liberman's and Halle's presentations will be sent in a
future announcement.
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/linguistics/poetics/
The Language and Poetic Form is Sponsored by the Stanford Humanities
Center Mellon Workshop Program.
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AUSTROFEST
Stanford is organizing an AustroFest with 4-5 speakers on Austronesian linguistics on
February 5, 9.30 a.m.- 5 p.m. Here's a pointer to the URL:
http://www.linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/austrofest.html
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AILA 2005
The 14th World Congress of Applied Linguistics will be held in Madison, Wisconsin from July 24-July 29, 2005.
For more information visit, http://www.aila2005.org
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NEW IN THE LRC LIBRARY
University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics
2004, Volume 13
English Linguistics, Journal of the English Linguistic Society of Japan, Vol. 21, No. 2, November 2004
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