Category: students
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Rebekah Baglini: Bloch Fellow
3rd-year PhD student Rebekah Baglini has been named the 2011-13 Bloch Fellow. This award goes to the person who is, in the eyes of the LSA Summer Institute fellowship selection committee, “the most promising applicant for fellowships” at the Institute. The Bloch Fellow receives an institute fellowship (obviously), and then serves as a voting member…
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Congratulations, Julia!
Congrats to Julia Thomas for successfully defending her qualifying paper, “Styeshifting in African American English: Theoretical Implications from a phonetic analysis of /ai/ monophthongization”!
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Two Chicagoan Speakers at USC
Professor Chris Kennedy will be giving a colloquium at the University of Southern California on Feb 22, on “The number of meanings of English number words”. He will be shortly followed by Chicago PhD student Max Bane, who will be giving his own colloquium at USC on Feb 25.
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Chicago at BLS
Chicago linguistics researchers will be making a good showing at the 37th annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, which begins February 12th. Professor Salikoko Mufwene will be presenting an invited paper, Let’s Bury the Pidgin-to-Creole Evolutionary Myth Once and for All!, and three of our graduate students will be presenting papers in the regular…
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Rella I. Cohn research awards
The first round of awards have been made from the Chicago Linguistics Graduate Student Research Fund in Honor of Rella I. Cohn. The following projects received individual awards in amounts up to $450: Ryan Bochnak, ‘Syntax and semantics of Luganda “exceed” comparatives’ Jon Keane, (ASL fingerspelling database for automatic recognition) Susan Rizzo, ‘Performance errors in…