Archived Events in the Linguistics Department

EventTypeTimeDescription
Morris International Symposium on Language and CommunicationConference05/29/2009 - 11:00am
05/29/2009 - 11:00am
05/31/2009 - 11:59am
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Morris International Symposium on Language and Communication

More information on the symposium website.

Edith AldridgeColloquium05/08/2009 - 3:30pm
05/08/2009 - 3:30pm
05/08/2009 - 5:00pm
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Svitlana Antonyuk-Yudina; John BailynBrown Bag Talk05/06/2009 - 12:50pm
05/06/2009 - 12:50pm
05/06/2009 - 1:50pm
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Alan YuColloquium05/01/2009 - 3:30pm
05/01/2009 - 3:30pm
05/01/2009 - 5:00pm
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Hisako TakahashiBrown Bag Talk04/29/2009 - 12:50pm
04/29/2009 - 12:50pm
04/29/2009 - 1:50pm
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Paul PietroskiColloquium04/24/2009 - 3:30pm
04/24/2009 - 3:30pm
04/24/2009 - 5:00pm
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Ivana Mitrović and Chris LaTerzaBrown Bag Talk04/15/2009 - 12:50pm
04/15/2009 - 12:50pm
04/15/2009 - 1:50pm
Etc/GMT-5
Gabriela Pérez BáezBrown Bag Talk04/01/2009 - 12:50pm
04/01/2009 - 12:50pm
04/01/2009 - 1:50pm
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From University of Buffalo

Greville CorbettColloquium03/27/2009 - 3:30pm
03/27/2009 - 3:30pm
03/27/2009 - 5:00pm
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Tanya ScottBrown Bag Talk03/25/2009 - 12:50pm
03/25/2009 - 12:50pm
03/25/2009 - 1:50pm
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Bruce TesarColloquium03/20/2009 - 3:30pm
03/20/2009 - 3:30pm
03/20/2009 - 5:00pm
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Neal SnapeBrown Bag Talk03/18/2009 - 12:50pm
03/18/2009 - 12:50pm
03/18/2009 - 1:50pm
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From Gunma Prefectural Women's University

Roumyana PanchevaColloquium03/06/2009 - 3:30pm
03/06/2009 - 3:30pm
03/06/2009 - 5:00pm
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Norvin RichardsColloquium02/27/2009 - 3:30pm
02/27/2009 - 3:30pm
02/27/2009 - 5:00pm
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Carlos de CubaBrown Bag Talk02/18/2009 - 12:50pm
02/18/2009 - 12:50pm
02/18/2009 - 1:50pm
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Ken Wexler (MIT)Linguistics Lecture Series02/06/2009 - 3:30pm
02/06/2009 - 3:30pm
02/06/2009 - 5:00pm
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Developing Phases, Verbal, Resultant State and Target State Passives, Inverse Copulas, Clefts

Location: Wang Center, Lecture Hall 2

This paper presents a biolinguistic solution to a long-standing puzzle in grammatical development, namely the question of why comprehension of cleft sentences like (1) is so late (not good until about age 7), along with experimental tests of the theory.

(1) it’s John that/who Mary pushed

Ken Wexler (MIT)Linguistics Lecture Series02/05/2009 - 6:00pm
02/05/2009 - 6:00pm
02/05/2009 - 8:00pm
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Lenneberg’s Dream in our Time: Development, Learning and the Search for a Genetics of Language

Location: Humanities 1006

The study of language development today is among the most vibrant of the cognitive sciences, with stunning empirical results and many connections to other sciences, including linguistics, genetics and brain imaging. What causes language development in the child? Of course, much is learned, for example, particular words. What else is learned? What is caused by biology? What develops late or early under biological guidance?

Stela ManovaBrown Bag Talk02/04/2009 - 12:50pm
02/04/2009 - 12:50pm
02/04/2009 - 1:50pm
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Affix order in the Slavic word: Parsability, closing suffixes and related issues

Daniel L. EverettLinguistics Lecture Series12/05/2008 - 3:30pm
12/05/2008 - 3:30pm
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A Finite Grammar in a Non-finite Language?

Daniel L. EverettLinguistics Lecture Series12/04/2008 - 6:00pm
12/04/2008 - 6:00pm
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Arrows, Pizza, and Language: Grammar as a Cultural Tool

Yukiko AsanoBrown Bag Talk12/03/2008 - 12:45pm
12/03/2008 - 12:45pm
12/03/2008 - 1:45pm
Etc/GMT-5

SBS S207.

Joe PaterColloquium11/21/2008 - 3:30pm
11/21/2008 - 3:30pm
11/21/2008 - 5:00pm
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From UMass. Phonology. SAC 304

Alex WilliamsColloquium11/14/2008 - 3:30pm
11/14/2008 - 3:30pm
11/14/2008 - 5:00pm
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From University of Georgia. Semantics. SAC 304

Yunju SuhBrown Bag Talk11/05/2008 - 12:45pm
11/05/2008 - 12:45pm
11/05/2008 - 1:45pm
Etc/GMT-5

SBS S207.

Daiko TakahashiColloquium10/31/2008 - 3:30pm
10/31/2008 - 3:30pm
10/31/2008 - 5:00pm
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From Tohoku University. Syntax. SAC 304