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WHASC Newsletter February 1, 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 now comes out on Tuesdays. Please send your news items in by 12 noon on Tuesday.
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COLLOQUIUM THIS FRIDAY
Keith Johnson (University of California, Berkeley)
"The language-specificity of speech perception"
Friday, February 4th - 5:00 p.m.
Cowell College Conference Room
ABSTRACT
Last year at about this time I claimed in a lecture at UC Berkeley
that I had found a way to measure a universal perceptual map. This
would be of some considerable interest for Donca Steriade's approach
to the study of the perceptual basis of some phonological patterns.
Since then, three of my students have shown that my claim was
premature. In this talk, I'll address the perception of Dutch
fricatives, Mandarin tones, and Spanish /r/ allophones, and a model
of speech perception that at least knows what its problems are.
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REVISED COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE - MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
Please note that the February 25th colloquium with Maya Arad has been CANCELLED.
Colloquium plans, Winter 2005
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FEB 2005
Fri 4 Keith Johnson (UC Berkeley): 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"
Wed 23 Stevenson Faculty Lecture: Jorge Hankamer
"What you can learn from a computer about Turkish" ( 4:30-6:00 Silverman)
MAR 2005
Fri 4 no colloquium (LASC is the next day)
Fri 11 [open]
Fri 18 quarter ends
Wed 30 Linguist/philosopher Jason Stanley visiting SCLL group
Thu 31 Jason Stanley Philosophy Colloquium
Colloquium plans, Spring 2005
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APRIL 2005
Fr 1
Mo 4 Larry Horn [NOTE: on a Monday!]
Fr 8
Fr 15
Fr 22
Fr 29
MAY 2005
Fr 6
Fr 13 Gregory Ward (title to come)
Th 19 Scott Soames visiting in Philosophy
Fr 20
Fr 27
JUNE 2005
Fr 3
Fr 10
Fr 17
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CONGRATULATIONS to the Fall Quarter Graduates!
Linguistics Majors
Michael Foster
John Hunter
Julia Kasmire (with honors)
Linguistics Minor
Danielle Neason
Language Studies Majors
Jennifer Kim
Gwendolyn Leachman
Candice Millhollen
Jane Nellis
Stephanie Romero
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Mika Kizu (M.A., UCSC, 1994), who is now a Lecturer in the Department
of East Asian Studies at the University of Durham (UK), has just
published *Cleft Constructions in Japanese Syntax* (Palgrave Macmillan).
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Jorge Hankamer has been invited to give a Stevenson Faculty Lecture on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 from 4:30-6:00 p.m. in the Silverman Conference Room.
"What you can learn from a computer about Turkish"
Jorge has this to say about his upcoming talk:
"It's going to be a presentation of a bit of my recent work in Turkish
morphosyntax, focused on a particular discovery and how I discovered it,
and how that discovery was the direct result of a computational analysis,
and what the consequences of the discovery are for both linguistic theory
and the computational problem of natural language parsing."
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
6th ANNUAL STANFORD SEMANTICS FEST
Friday, March 11, 2005
Abstracts are due by 5 p.m., Monday, February 7, 2005.
Please visit: http://www.linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/semfest.html
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Position Announcement
The Department of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut is seeking applications for a tenure-track position in Semantics to begin the Fall semester 2005, at the Assistant Professor level.
For more information, see http://www.linguistics.uconn.edu
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Stanford French Film Festival
Tuesday, February 22 - March 1 on the Stanford campus
Colorful posters are up near Stevenson Room 241.
For more information, visit: http://dlcl.stanford.edu/research/frenchfilm.html
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Call for Papers for the 3rd Annual Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium at Harvard
Harvard University campus, Cambridge, Massachusetts
April 23-24, 2005.
Undergrads of all levels of expertise are invited to submit 1-page abstracts proposing a roundtable discussion or a talk of not more than twenty minutes. (All participants must be pursuing a B.A. or B.S., or equivalent degree.)
Abstracts are to be directed to:

LinG Colloquuium
c/o Bridget Samuels
352 Harvard St. #1E
Cambridge, MA 02138
E-mailed abstracts (and questions!) will also be accepted at:

bdsamuel@fas.harvard.edu
The final deadline for receipt of all submissions is March 18, 2005.
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PART-TIME JOB
Winter Program Host - English Language International (multiple positions available)
Work with international students who are participating in an Intensive English program here in Santa Cruz.
Part time/temporary/variable schedule
Mnimum starting salary: $10.48/hourly
For a complete job description please see: http://www.ucsc-extension.edu/main/info/jobs.html
Position is open until filled; initial review of application materials will begin on: 2/8/05.
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NEW IN THE LRC LIBRARY
Caroline Fery, Phonologie des Deutschen, Linguistics in Potsdam/7 (2004)
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Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure, Vol. 1
Working Papers of the SFB632*, 2004, Universitat Potsdam
*SFB 632 is a research group, funded by the German Research Foundation that brings together scientists from the areas of linguistics, psychology and English studies at the University of Potsdam and African studies at the Humboldt University Berlin.