Month: May 2010

  • Talk by Clayards on May 7

    Workshop on Language, Cognition, and Computation The role of phonetic detail, auditory processing and language experience in the perception of assimilated speech MEGHAN CLAYARDS (Communication Sciences and Disorders, McGill) Friday, May 7 at 3:30pm, in Harper 130 The speech signal is notoriously variable and complex. Not only do listeners cope well with this variability and…

  • Talk by Wagner on May 6

    Departmental Colloquium Information Structure Effects on Prosody: English vs. French Michael Wagner McGill University Cobb 201 2:30-4pm *NOTE NEW TIME* ABSTRACT: Germanic and Romance languages differ in how prosody is affected by information structure.  Ladd (2008), e.g., observes contrasts between English and Italian that reveal differences in how argument structure and  information structure affect prosody.…

  • Alumni update: Elaine and Alex Francis

    A huge congratulation to Elaine J. Francis (Ph.D. 1999), who has recently been promoted to associate professor with tenure at Purdue University in Indiana, where she teaches in the English Department and the graduate Linguistics Program.   For her 1999 dissertation Variation within Lexical Categories, she worked with advisor Salikoko Mufwene and committee members Amy Dahlstrom,…