Category: students
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Fun, fun, fun: QP Fest next week
Mark your calendar! This year’s QP-Fest will take place on March 16-17. The tentative program is as follows: March 16 (Location: Harper 140) 1-1:30 Christina Weaver: Negation in Luganda 1:30-2 Nassira Nicola: Information Status and Sentence Structure in Home Sign 2-2:30 Arum Kang: The Role of Prosody in Semantic/Syntactic Disambiguation in Korean Break 3-3:30…
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King to TULCon
Ed King, one of our many talented undergraduates, will be presenting “Generation Effects on Vowel Production in Latvian-English Bilinguals in Chicago” at the Toronto Undergraduate Linguistics Conference (TULCon), March 27-29, 2009.
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Kang to present at JSM
Arum Kang‘s paper, ‘On Pluralizing Event: Plural Marking Event Pluralizer tul in Korean’, has been selected for presentation at JSM (Journées de Sémantique et Modélisation)’09. Congratulations!
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Kirby at Southeast Asian language conference
James Kirby represented Chicago linguistics last week at the UCLA-UC Berkeley Joint Conference on Southeast Asian Studies in sunny Los Angeles. James’s paper, “Spectral cues to voice quality in Vietnamese” (abstract included here) was presented during a phonetics session of the Conference on Languages of Southeast Asia.
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De-FENSE! De-FENSE!
We have just received word of two upcoming defenses: Fang Liu will defend her dissertation on ‘Intonation Systems of Mandarin and English: a Functional Approach’ on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. in Classics 312 (department lounge). A draft of Fang’s dissertation, including abstract, can be found here. Meanwhile, Osamu Sawada will be defending his dissertation…