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Self-organization and categorical behavior in phonology
Wednesday, March 3, 2004
4:00 p.m.
The Silverman Conference Room, Stevenson College
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LASC 2004 ("Linguistics at Santa Cruz") Conference
Saturday, March 6, 2004 - Silverman Conference Room
Schedule
12:50 Opening Remarks
1 PM Ascander Dost: Complex Codas in Pashto
1:30 Lindsay Jones: Negation and Movement in Stripping
2 Line Mikkelsen: TBA
2:30 Break
3 Elena Innes: Faithfulness in Russian Paradigms
3:30 Aaron Kaplan: Restricting Coda Clusters in Optimality Theory
4 Break
4:30 Rachel Walker: On Consonant Harmony and Why it's Hard
to say Phrases like 'Sheena leads, Sheila needs'
6-?? Party at Jorge Hankamer's house.
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There is an interesting story featuring Vera Lee-Schoenfeld in this week's Currents on-line edition:
http://currents.ucsc.edu/03-04/02-23/schoenfeld_profile.html
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Jaye Padgett will be giving a talk at the 13th Formal Approaches to Linguistics Conference (Feb 27-9), at the University South Carolina. It's called "Formal and Functional Aspects of Russian Vowel Reduction."
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The Division of Humanities announces the 2004 John Dizikes Teaching Award in Humanities
The award will be for excellent teaching by a Humanities Division Lecturer or a Ladder rank faculty member. The award will be in the amount of $3,000 to be paid to the faculty member and, in addition, the faculty member will select an undergraduate student with sophomore or junior standing (with preference given to an undergraduate student majoring in a Humanities field), to receive a $3,000 scholarship.
Current students, both graduates and undergraduates, may nominate someone. The nomination form is available in Stevenson 241. Nominations are due to department offices on April 5. For more information, please contact Norma Ray at 459-4477 or via e-mail at nray@ucsc.edu.
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The preliminary listing of courses for Summer Session is now posted on line at:
http://summer.ucsc.edu
Linguistics classes being offered are:
Session 1: Semantics Lynsey Wolter, Instructor
Session 2: Phonetics Vera Lee-Schoenfeld, Instructor
Intro to Unix James Isaacs, Instructor
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Psychology Department
Colloquium Series
Social Sciences 2, 121
3:30-5:00 pm
Wednesday, March 3
Cognitive Program presents:
DANIEL RICHARDSON
Psychology Department, Stanford University
"Looking to Understand:
The Role of Eye Movements in Thinking, Speaking and Listening"
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The Eighteenth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics
March 19-20, 2004
The University of Oklahoma
Norman, Oklahoma
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