Month: May 2007

  • Erlewine got Fulbright

    Mitcho Erlewine, one of our graduating seniors, has been awarded a Fulbright fellowship to teach English in Taiwan. Congratulations!

  • Stanley’s talk postponed

    The talks that Jason Stanley was scheduled to give next week — a linguistics colloquium on Thursday and a semantics/philosophy workshop talk on Friday — have been postponed until fall quarter, as Jason will not be able to make it to Chicago next week.

  • Talk by Chris Barker on Friday

    The workshop on semantics and philosophy of language is pleased to announce a talk this Friday, May 25, by Chris Barker from NYU. The talk will take place 11-1 in Classics 47. The title of his talk is “The case against E-type donkey pronouns”. Some background reading can be downloaded from the workshop website: http://semantics.uchicago.edu/workshops/spl/barker.html

  • ICPhS acceptances

    A bunch of UofC linguists will be presenting at the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences in Saarbrücken, Germany (August 6-10): Fang Liu and Yi Xu (UCL): Question intonation as affected by word stress and focus in English. James Kirby and Alan Yu: Lexical and phonotactic effects on wordlikeness judgements in Cantonese. Justin Murphy and Alan…

  • Full-time summer position available

    NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates Program Full-time Summer Position An NSF-funded project in the Computer Science department at the University of Chicago is looking for a full-time undergraduate summer intern for the Summer of 2007. The project explores computational approaches to speech recognition and understanding, specifically recognition of tone and intonation. The summer position would…