Category: students
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Chicago undergrads going places!
Several of our current and former linguistics undergrads will be heading to graduate schools this Fall. Eric Prendergast, who’s currently on a Fulbright fellowship researching in Macedonia, will be heading to Berkeley, joining fellow Chicago grads Clara Cohen and John Sylak in the Department of Linguistics. Eric Morley, who has been serving in the Peace…
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CLS 45 says, Thanks!
To commemorate this one-month mark after the closing of our fabulous CLS 45 conference, we’ve put up a summary page on the website so you can relive it. Be sure to check out the photo album, chock full of pictures from the conference and banquet, taken and compiled by our own Christina Weaver. Thanks again for helping us make…
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Success! Even more QP defenses
Congratulations to Juan Bueno-Holle, Alice Lemieux and Ryan Bochnak for each successfully defending a qualifying paper this spring! Juan defended his second QP, entitled “Lexical Tone in Isthmus Zapotec.” Meanwhile, Alice successfully defended her first QP, “A Reanalysis of Washo Bipartite Stems,” and Ryan defended his, “Half as a promiscuous modifier.” Great job to all of you—may there be more to…
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Shannon Heald talk on May 15
Workshop on Language, Cognition, and Computation (Sponsored by the Council on Advanced Studies) Vowel variability within and between days Shannon Heald (Psych, U. Chicago) Friday, May 15 at 3:30pm, in the Karen Landahl Center (basement of Social Science)
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Lehr fellowship award
Rachel Lehr has been awarded an AAUW dissertation fellowship for her dissertation, Pashai Grammar. Rachel is in Afghanistan right now doing fieldwork on Pashai. Congratulations, Rachel!