Spring 2012

Monday, May 14
Sharon Hargus (University of Washington)
Deg Xinag "Voiceless Unaspirates": A Case of Phonologically Driven Phonetics?
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, Apr 30
Yael Sharvit (UCLA)
"Tense and Universal Grammar"
2:00 pm, AP&M 430

Winter 2012

Monday, Apr 2
Karen Jensey (University of Southern California)
"Local and Non-local Markedness in Child Consonant Cluster Acquisition"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, Feb 6
Daniel Büring (University of Vienna)
"Exhaustivity in Clefts"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Fall 2011

Monday, October 17
Duane Watson (UIUC)
Multiple roads to prominence: Understanding emphasis in conversation
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, November 7
Kristine Yu (U of Maryland/UMass Amherst)
The learnability of tones from the speech signal
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, November 28
David Perlmutter (UCSD)
"What is 'Subject Position' in the Germanic Languages?"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Spring 2011

Monday, May 9
Toby Mintz (USC)
"Distributional Analysis as a Method for Categorizing Words in Infancy"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, May 23
Hannah Rohde (Stanford)
"Hearing and Seeing Discourse Dependencies"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Winter 2011

Monday, January 31
Rob Malouf (SDSU)
"Information and Evolution in Morphology"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, February 14
Josep Quer (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
"Licensing empty arguments in sign languages: the view from Catalan Sign Language (LSC)"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, March 7
Jason Riggle (University of Chicago)
"Generative models of variation within and between languages"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Fall 2010

Monday, October 25
Susanne Gahl (UC Berkeley)
"Talker age and lexical determinants of speaking tempo"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Friday, October 22
Duane Watson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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Amalia Arvaniti (UCSD)
Greek Throughout the Ages: A Brief History of the Greek Language
7:00 pm, St. Spyridon Greek Orthodox Church Hall, Park Blvd. at Cypress St., San Diego

Monday, October 18
Programs Abroad Expo
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When: 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Where: Library Walk
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Monday, October 11
Chris Potts (Stanford University)
"On the negativity of negation"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, September 27
Naomi Feldman (Brown University/University of Maryland)
"A probabilistic approach to phonetic learning and perception"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Spring 2010

Colloquium

Monday, May 17
Robert Daland (UCLA)
"The Role of Phonotactic Grammar in Word Recognition Models"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, May 10
Meghan Sumner (Stanford University)
"The effect of experience in the perception and representation of unfamiliar accents"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, April 26
Leslie Lee (UCSD)
"Acoustic Analysis of the Tonal System of Singapore Mandarin"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, April 12
Stefan Gries (UCSB)
"Data-driven approaches in corpus linguistics"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Winter 2010

Colloquium

Monday, February 8
Jim Hurford (University of Edinburgh)
"Syntax in the Light of Evolution"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Monday, January 25
Line Mikkelsen (U.C. Berkley)
"Verb-second structures: Evidence from Danish VP anaphora"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Fall 2009

Colloquium

Monday, November 23
Beth Hume (OSU Linguistics)
"Nonmonotonic effects of frequency: Implications for the role of information in language"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Art, Language & Culture of Flamenco and Spanish Dialectology

Thursday, December 3
Cadiz Global Seminar Info Session
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4:30-6pm, Oceanids Pavilion

Art, Language & Culture of Flamenco and Spanish Dialectology

Monday, October 26
Cadiz Global Seminar Info Session
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4:30-6pm, Oceanids Pavilion

Monday, October 26
Linguistics Info Session
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11am-12pm, AP&M 4301

Colloquium

Monday, October 12
Roger Levy (UCSD Linguistics)
"The Processing of Extraposed Structures in English"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Spring 2009

5th UCSD Linguistics Department Heritage Language Program Film Festival

Saturday, May 30, 2009
Maxx
Directed by Saman Moghadam (Iran, 2005)
In Farsi with English subtitles
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Colloquium

Monday, May 18
David Barner (UCSD Psychology)
"Meaning and verification in language acquisition"
4:00 pm, AP&M 4301

5th UCSD Linguistics Department Heritage Language Program Film Festival

Saturday, May 16, 2009
Tajja (The War of Flower)
Directed by Dong-hun Choi (S. Korea, 2006)
In Korean with English subtitles
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

5th UCSD Linguistics Department Heritage Language Program Film Festival

Saturday, May 9, 2009
The White Silk Dress (Áo lụa hà đông)
Directed by Lựu Huỳnh (Vietnam, 2006)
In Vietnamese with English subtitles
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Colloquium

Monday, May 4
Jon Sprouse (UC Irvine)
"Looking for evidence in the islands debate: working memory capacity and acceptability judgments
Philip Hofmeister (UCSD)
"A processing-based view of syntactic island phenomena"

5th UCSD Linguistics Department Heritage Language Program Film Festival

Saturday, April 25, 2009
Ama, Ina, Anak (Father, Mother, Child)
Directed by José Javier Reyes (Philippines, 1996)
In Filipino with English subtitles
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

5th UCSD Linguistics Department Heritage Language Program Film Festival

Thursday, April 23
The Linguists"
Film screening followed by discussion with David Harrison, one of the linguists featured on the film.
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Great Hall-International House, 5:00 P.M. (Free)

Colloquium

Monday, April 20
Tom Bever (University of Arizona)
"Extrinsic and Intrinsic Language Universals"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Film

Saturday, April 18, 2009
The Other (L'Autre; El Akhar)
Directed by Youssef Chahine (Egypt, 1999)
In Arabic and English with English subtitles
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Colloquium

Monday, April 13
Armin Mester (U.C. Santa Cruz)
"Gemination and the prosody of loanwords in Japanese"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Colloquium

Monday, April 6
Robert Port (Indiana University)
"Rich linguistic memory shows language must be a social object, not psychological"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Winter 2009

Colloquium

Monday, February 9
Susan Goldin-Meadow (University of Chicago)
"Gesture's Role in Creating and Learning Language"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

With our many colloquia, talks, lab meetings, reading groups, and conferences, something's always going on in our department.