Month: May 2007

  • The Class of 2007

    We have a record number of linguistics majors graduating this year: Lilibeth Contreras Jessica Eanes Mitcho Erlewine Elliott Goodman Ruth Krevitt Max Masich Eric Morley Justin Murphy Chelsey Norman Dorothy Shope Jessica Turon Eric Morley, Justin Murphy, and Jessica Turon will also be graduating with honors. Mitcho Erlewine will be graduating with a joint BA/MA.…

  • Slotta received Fulbright and Wenner-Gren

    James Slotta received the Fulbright-Hayes DDRA Fellowship and the Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant for research on language variation in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. Way to go, James!

  • Sawada awarded graduate fellowship

    Osamu Sawada has been awarded a Graduate Achievement Fellowship from the Division of the Humanities. Congratulations, Osamu, for work well done!

  • Liu to INTERSPEECH 2007

    Fang Liu will be presenting “The Neutral Tone in Question Intonation in Mandarin” with Yi Xu (UCL) at INTERSPEECH 2007 at Antwerp, Belgium, in August.

  • Elliott defended QP

    Malcolm Elliott successfully defended his first QP last week on semantic constraints on the distribution of the Japanese reflexive zibun. Good work, Malcolm!