Month: June 2010

  • Last issue of BLING for the summer

    BLING will go on hiatus for the summer. We will resume when the Fall quarter starts in September. Have  a wonderful break, everyone!

  • Job news: Debenport and Paz

    Two recent alumni have recently been offered jobs for the upcoming academic year… … Erin Debenport (Linguistics ’09), who has accepted a tenure-track position in the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico, and Alejandro Paz (Linguistics and Anthropology ’09), who has been appointed Assistant Professor in Linguistics at the University of Toronto!…

  • Yoon dissertation defended

    Suwon Yoon was successful in defending her dissertation, ‘Not in the Mood: The Semantics and Syntax of Expletive Negation’. Congratulations, Suwon! Great job!

  • Kirby in JASA

    James Kirby‘s paper “Dialect experience in Vietnamese tone perception” has been published online in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (Vol. 127, Issue 6). Congratulations, James! http://link.aip.org/link/?JAS/127/3749Jame

  • Summer conference activities

    In Taipei later this month, Tommy Grano will be presenting “Explicit comparison to an implicit standard in Mandarin Chinese,” and Chris Kennedy will present “The composition of incremental change,” both at the 12th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics. Morgan Sonderegger and Alan Yu will present “A rational account of perceptual compensation for coarticulation” at the…