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DEADLINE
The last day to sign up for the Senior Comprehensive Examination is Wednesday, April 13. Sign up sheets are posted outside Stevenson 241. The Comp. Exams will be handed out on Wednesday, April 27.
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DEFENSE
Vera Lee-Schoenfeld will defend her dissertation
Beyond Coherence
Thursday, May 19, 2005
11:00 a.m.
Silverman Conference Room, Stevenson College
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NSF
Dan Roth received an honorable mention for his application for a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship.
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TREND
Berkeley-Stanford-Santa Cruz TRilateral WeekEND (TREND)
S-TREND Saturday April 16th (schedule below)
P-TREND Sunday April 17th Please see http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/sssg/strend/
Both days at: Cordura 100, CSLI, Stanford University
Saturday April 16th
9:45--10:00 Coffee and Welcome
10:00--10:45
Inbal Arnon, Bruno Estigarribia, Philip Hofmeister, T. Florian Jaeger,
Jeanette Pettibone, Ivan A. Sag, Neal Snider, Stanford
Processing Accounts for Superiority Effects
10:45--11:30
Pete Alrenga, Santa Cruz
Comparisons of Similarity and Difference
11:30--11:45 break
11:45--12:30
Nick Fleisher, Berkeley
Russian Dative Subjects as Object Controllers
12:30--1:30 lunch
1:30--2:15
Liz Coppock, Stanford
Alignment in Syntactic Blending
2:15--3:00
Ascander Dost, Santa Cruz
Second Position Clitics in Pashto without Second Positions
3:00--3:15 break
3:15--4:00
Jenny Lederer, Berkeley
Understanding the Self: The Distribution of English Anaphora in
Prepositional Phrases
4:00--4:45
Alex Bratkievich*, T. Florian Jaeger, Laura Whitton, David Beaver,
Charles Chang*, Itamar Francez, Line Mikkelsen*, Gerlof Bouma, Dmitry
Levinson, and Ivan Garcia-Alvarez; Stanford and Berkeley*
tba (existentials)
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JOB OPENING
H5 Technologies, Inc. located in San Francisco's SOMA district is seeking linguists in their Discourse Analysis Group to join them for several upcoming large projects. The positions would be great for students who might be finishing up the MA program, as well as advanced or graduating undergrads. H5 provides technology-based document review services to government agencies, law firms and corporate counsels. A more detailed job description is posted outside Stevenson Room 241. To apply: send resume and cover letter to ling-jobs@h5technologies.com
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PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT LECTURES THIS WEEK
David Stern, Department of Philosophy, University of Iowa
"Wittgenstein's Physicalism: The Story of How Wittgenstein Accused
Carnap of Plagiarism"
Tuesday, April 12, 6:00 pm, Kresge 327
Brian Skyrms, Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, UC Irvine
"The Stag Hunt"
Thursday, April 14, 4:00 pm, Stevenson Silverman Conference Room
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LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM APRIL 29
Ignorance of Language
Michael Devitt
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
5:00 p.m.
Cowell College Conference Room
The abstract will be posted on the ling website: http://ling.ucsc.edu/events/index.html
Professor Devitt will also present a lecture for the Philosophy Department entitled "Intuitions" on Thursday, April 28 at 4:00 p.m. at the Stevenson Silverman Conference Room.
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Thinking about Graduate School?
Need a road map?
Workshop
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
12:15 - 1:30 p.m.
ARCenter, Room 216
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ITALIAN SUMMER
Pisa University Department of Linguistics
The 56th Course on Italian Language
Viareggio, Italy
July 4-28 and August 1-25, 2005
Many levels (beginners to advanced)
For more information, please visit: http://www.humnet.unipi.it/linguistica/summer.htm
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Psychology Spring Colloquia
Social Sciences 2 #121
3:30-5 p.m.
Wednesday, April 13
Cognitive Program presents:
KALANIT GRILL-SPECTOR
Stanford University, Department of Psychology
"The Neural Basis of Object and Face Recognition"
For special arrangements to accommodate a disability, please call Virginia Lee at 459-4194.
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NEW IN THE LRC LIBRARY
PERSPECTIVES ON PHASES, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 49 (2005), edited by Martha McGinnis and Norvin Richards
Durham Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 10 (2004), School of Linguistics and Language, University of Durham
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