Fall 2007, Linguistics Talks and other events

• Thu, Sep 13: Janet Pierrehumbert, Northwestern
  Sustaining Linguistic Complexity
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• Thus, Oct 11: Hannele Nicholson, Cornell
  Disfluencies in Dialogue: Attention, Structure and Function
  
  
• Thu, Oct 18: Jim McCloskey, U. C. Santa Cruz
  Movement, Agreement, and Beyond (in Irish)
  
  
• Thu, Oct 25: Kemmonye Monaka, U. Botswana and U. C. Berkeley
  An acoustic study of Shekgalagari stops
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• Fri, Oct 26: Rina Kreitman, Emory
  3:30 PM, room 106 Morrill Hall
  Voicing specifications in Onset Clusters: Their phonetic and phonological reality
  
  
• Thu, Nov 1: Heidi Harley, U. of Arizona
  Applicatives, causatives, and the Mirror Principle: vP-external subjects and Voice
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• Fri, Nov 2: Meghan Clayards, U. of Rochester
  10:00 AM, Room B11 Morrill Hall (Phonetics Lab)
  Acoustic-phonetic speech cues and word recognition: what makes a good cue?
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• Fri, Nov 2: Florian Jaeger, U. of Rochester (co-sponsored with Cognitive Studies)
  3:30 PM, Room 202 Uris Hall
  Optimal Language Production: Uniform Information Density
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• Thu, Nov 8:, Elan Dresher, U. Toronto
  Strange but Indubitable: Against Phonetic Determinism of Contrast in Phonology
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• Thu, Nov 15: Marc Brunelle, U. Ottawa
  Vietnamese tone: featureless phonology and phonetic coherence
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• Thu, Nov 29: John Bowers, Cornell
  Introducing (and Supporting) Causatives