Month: January 2008

  • Merchant on “a couple of”

    Jason Merchant’s theory on “a couple of” was discussed in William Safire’s recent musing on the different usages of “of”. To see why Safire wants to “fall off of” his chair, here’s the full article.

  • Submission deadline reminders

    Phonologization symposium: January 15 WCCFL: January 15 This year’s WCCFL will be held at UCLA on May 16-18. The two special session topics are as follows: Experimental Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics Explaining Phonological Typology: Channel or Analytic Bias?

  • UN General Assembly Proclaims 2008 International Year of Languages

    The year 2008 has been proclaimed International Year of Languages by the United Nations General Assembly. UNESCO, which has been entrusted with the task of coordinating activities for the Year, is determined to fulfill its role as lead agency. The full text of a message from Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, on the celebration…

  • Welcome back and Happy 2008!

    BLING is finally back after a short winter hiatus. Not doubt many of you will have interesting new developments you would like to share. So please don’t forget to send us news you’d like to see appearing on the pages of BLING. Just a reminder, BLING is updated weekly, so keep those news and other…

  • Ernestus Colloquium on Thursday

    Gradient phonological generalizations in speech processing Mirjam Ernestus Radboud University Nijmegen & Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Thursday Jan. 10, 2008 Cobb 201, 3.30-5 pm Abstract Several studies have shown that speakers are sensitive to the absolute and statistically gradient phonological patterns in their mental lexicon. Participants prefer words conforming to these patterns, and they…