Category: students
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CLS 46 is underway
The 46th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society begins TODAY and runs through Saturday evening (culminating in our world-renowed CLS banquet). A full program can be found here. U. Chicago participants include two invited speakers, the illustrious John Goldsmith (Main Session) and Jason Riggle (Probabilistic Theories of Grammar), as well as the following presenters: Eleni…
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Kuzmack going to GRAMIS
Stefanie Kuzmack‘s abstract, “Written language as a factor in language change,” has been accepted for the International Conference on Grammaticalization and (Inter)Subjectification (GramiS), to be held in Brussels this November. Congrats, Stefie!
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Time for QP-fest!
This Wednesday and Thursday, all are invited to this year’s “QP-fest” (more formally known as the Graduate Student Miniconference in Linguistics). Our annual exposition of qualifying-papers-in-progress will feature ground-breaking presentations by our second- and third-year graduate students. The two-day program includes: Wednesday, March 10 1:30-‐2:00 | Carissa Abrego-Collier: “Coarticulatory influence on perception of English liquids” 2:00-2:30 | Susan Rizzo:…
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Chicagoans at Penn Linguistics Colloquium
Autumn quarter’s sociophonetics seminar has proven fruitful—the experiment designed by the class has been accepted to the Penn Linguistics Colloquium (PLC 34)! The eight co-authors include Alan Yu, Carissa Abrego-Collier, Rebekah Baglini, Tommy Grano, Martina Martinovic, Charles Otte III (NELC/Ling), Julia Thomas, and Jasmin Urban. The paper, entitled “Mediating factors in phonetic imitation: Perceived sexual orientation,” will…
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Super conference acceptances
Fourth-year Nassira Nicola recently learned some exciting news: the acceptance of her submission to the Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR 10) in October at Purdue University. She’ll be presenting her paper, “Re-Analyzing Plural Classifier Predicates in American Sign Language.” Congrats, Nassira! Third-year grad Ryan Bochnak also has a poster acceptance to a big conference, this…