BLING will go on hiatus for the summer. We will resume when the Fall quarter starts in September. Have a wonderful break, everyone!
Monthly Archives: June 2010
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!
Congratulations, Erin and Alejandro!
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 32nd annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society in Portland, Oregon, in August.
Peter Klecha will present his work on “Optional and Obligatory Modal Subordination” at Sinn und Bedeutung 15 at the Department of German Studies, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany in September.