Month: May 2007
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Prosody reading group postponed till Friday
The first meeting of the prosody reading group is postponed to Friday, May 25. It will take place at 3:00pm, in G104 (The Harris Room) in the Psychology building (5848 S University Ave.). The first paper to be discussed is by R. Ogden (2006) on “Phonetics and social action in agreements and disagreements” in the…
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GIS and sociolinguistics training sessions
Following on several highly informative sessions on using transcription interfaces, the Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce that Todd Schuble, our local expert on spatial analysis software (GIS), will be offering two sessions that will introduce us to the possibilities of linking linguistic and related social data to locationally coded databases. Many databases of…
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do Couto’s Talk on Monday
Professor Hildo do Couto (University of Brasilia) will be giving a special lecture on “Stress patterns and syllable structure in Brazilian Portuguese” on Monday, May 21, 3:00 – 5:20 PM, in Cobb 116. Professor do Couto is a Tinker fellow in the Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of Linguistics this spring quarter.…
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Prosody Reading Group on Friday
The first Prosody Reading Group meeting will take place on Friday, May 18, at 4:00pm in G104 (The Harris Room). The first reading is the following: Ogden, R. (2006). Phonetics and social action in agreements and disagreements. Journal of Pragmatics 38, 1752-1775.
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Colloquium by Sadock this Thursday
Jerry Sadock will give a colloquium on Thursday, May 17, in Harper 130 at 3:30pm. The title of his talk is “English Tense and the Auxiliary System.”