Spring semester 2006, Linguistics Talks and other events

• Wed, Feb 1: Kirsten Fudeman, Ithaca College
  4:30 Room 106A Morrill
  Separate Spaces: Linguistic Perspectives on Medieval Jewish Culture in Northern France
  
  
• Mon, Feb 13: Jim Collins, U. Kebangsaan Malaysia (co-sponsored with Southeast Asia Program)
  The Praxis of Language Choice Among Benawas Speakers: Towards Understanding Multilingualism in Western Borneo
  
  
• Thu, Feb 16: Joseph Sabbagh, McGill
  The Syntax of the Internal (Theme) Argument: A View from Adjectives in Tagalog
  
  
• Thu, Feb 23: Asya Pereltsvaig, Cornell
  The Semitic Noun Phrase Challenge: Remnant Movement vs. Snowballing Head Movement
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• Thu, Mar 2: Justin Fitzpatrick, MIT
  Syntactic and Semantic Routes to Floating Quantification
  
  
• Mon, Mar 6: Julie Legate, U. Delaware
  Absolutive Case: Syntax plus Morphology
  
  
• Thu, Mar 9: Koichi Tateishi, U. Kobe
  Lexical Strata and Phonological Markedness
  
  
• Thu, Mar 16: Joe Pittayaporn, Cornell
  A Chronological Approach to Subgrouping: The Case of Southwestern Tai
  
  
• Thu, Mar 30: Andy Chebanne, U. Botswana
  Khoe and San Languages of Botswana: a Sociolinguistic Analysis
  
  
• Thu, Apr 6: Abigail Cohn, Cornell
  Levels of Abstractness in Phonology and the Lexicon: Evidence from English Homophones
  
  
• Thu, Apr 13: Stuart Shieber, Harvard (co-sponsored with CLC and Cognitive Science)
  4:30 Room 106 Morrill Hall
  Developments in Synchronous Grammars
  
  
• Thu, Apr 20: Deborah Tannen, Georgetown (co-sponsored with the Mortar Board Honor Society)
  Gender Communication
  
  
• Thu, Apr 27: April McMahon, U. Edinburgh (co-sponsored with CLC)
  The Sound Patterns of Englishes: Accents, Phonetic Similarity, and Networks
  
  
• Thu, May 4: Patrice Beddor, U. Michigan (co-sponsored with CLC)
  A Phonetic Path to Sound Change
  
  
• Tue, May 23: Elizabeth Zsiga, Georgetown
  11:30 Room B11 (Phonetics Lab) Morrill Hall
  Some Puzzles in the Production and Perception of Thai Tones
  
  
• Mon, June 5: Bob Ladd, U. Edinburgh
  2:00 Room 106A Morrill Hall
  What is a Nuclear Accent?
  
  

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