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Third-year Ph.D. student Alice Lemieux had her paper, “A compositional approach to bipartite verbs in Washo”, accepted for presentation at the SSILA 2010 Annual Meeting in Baltimore, January 7-10. Way to go!  Alice is also currently at the University of Rochester this fall as a member of the Human Language Processing Lab/Jaeger Lab.

. . . Stay tuned for a complete list of Chicago representatives at the LSA Annual Meeting! We trust it’s a sizable one this year.

To commemorate this one-month mark after the closing of our fabulous CLS 45 conference, we’ve put up a summary page on the website so you can relive it. Be sure to check out the photo album, chock full of pictures from the conference and banquet, taken and compiled by our own Christina Weaver. Thanks again for helping us make CLS 45 great!

-Ryan Bochnak, Peter Klecha, Alice Lemieux, Nassira Nicola, Jasmin Urban, and Christina Weaver

CLS 45

Kelly Maynard of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures has announced a new web page dedicated to the Albanian Linguistics Workshop which was held on February 28, 2009 at the University of Chicago. Speakers included Eric Hamp, Brian Joseph, Jerry Morgan, and others.

Audio recordings of many of the talks accompanied by .pdf files of the handouts or screen captures of the presentations (combined audio recordings and slides) are available.  Scrolling down, there’s even a video of Eric Hamp’s full 90-minute lecture. Enjoy!

The 45th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society starts tomorrow!

The conference will be held at the International House from Thursday through Saturday. U of C students attend for free, so just go right to the “pre-registration check-in” table. All others can check in at the registration table.

As you know, our theme this year is “Locality in Language,” and we will kick off the conference Thursday morning with talks on locality in phonology and syntax.

Note: There will be no tea in the linguistics lounge this week, but all graduate students are invited to attend the grad-student mixer on Thursday evening at 8 pm in the pub, and all conference attendees are invited to the CLS banquet on Saturday night.

We hope to see you this weekend!

Patrick Midtlyng gave a talk entitled “The effects of speech rate on initial plosives and click accompaniments in Zulu” at the 40th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. The conference was held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign last Friday, April 10. Great job, Patrick!

This summer, Amy Dahlstrom will be speaking on “OBJ Θ without OBJ: A typology of Meskwaki objects” at the 2009 Lexical Functional Grammar Conference. The annual conference will be held at the University of Cambridge in July.

James Kirby will be giving two talks in May. The first, “Linguistic experience in tone perception,” will be given at the 2nd ASA Special Workshop on Speech in Portland on May 23. Six days later, James will be presenting “Tonal similarity and tone perception in Vietnamese” at the 19th Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistic Society in Saigon.

Mark your calendar! This year’s QP-Fest will take place on March 16-17. The tentative program is as follows:

March 16 (Location: Harper 140)

March 17 (Location: Harper 130)