Graduations 2009-2010 - College of Arts and Sciences - University ...

February 28, Ted Gibson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Working
memory constraints in sentence processing: Some preliminary typological
predictions and evaluations using a gesture paradigm”
March 17-18, Manfred Krug, University of Bamberg, "Contrastive Corpus
Linguistics: English vs. German" and "Auxiliaries and grammaticalization”
March 24, Dovid Katz, University College London, “Recovering Lithuanian
Yiddish between Apocalypse and in situ Extinction: Post-Holocaust Yiddish
Dialectology in Eastern Europe”
April 1, Our own Lindsey Hudson, Duncan Buell, Stan Dubinsky and Brian
Galloway, “Wordify! Morphology meets Ludology”
2009-2010
“Language in the USA” was the theme for the 2009-2010 Linguistics Program
Colloquium Series. Our dedicated colloquium committee arranged for fourteen talks
within this series, covering a broad spectrum of scholarship and linguistic interests.
Some of these talks were co-sponsored by the Linguistics Program and other
departments:
Marianne Mithun, University of California, Santa Barbara, Unexpected treasures:
Rewards of converging methodologies and Language in the fast lane:
Grammatical replication of the known and the unknown
Denise Finneran, University of South Carolina, The role of spoken language input
in early grammatical development in young speakers of mainstream and nonmainstream
English dialects
Jeff Reaser, North Carolina State University, and David Marlow, University of
South Carolina, Upstate, Promoting dialect awareness and tolerance for diversity
in K-12 classrooms
Fernanda Ferreira, University of Edinburgh, Disfluencies in language: Mistakes or
information?
Sarah Bunin Benor, Hebrew Union College, Mamish keeping it real: Language
socialization among newly Orthodox Jews and Reconceptualizing ethnolect as
ethnolinguistic repertoire
Carmen Silva-Corvalán, University of Southern California, Language
maintenance & shift: The case of Spanish in the Southwest and The role of
language dominance and interfaces in bilingual first language acquisition
Thomas Klein, Georgia Southern University, Gullah language and community:
Phonology and historical audio recordings
Paul Malovrh, University of South Carolina, Explaining a sequence of
development: A concept-oriented analysis of the morphological disambiguation of
anaphoric expression in L2 oral Spanish
Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, Modeling turn-taking behavior in spoken
dialogue systems and Detecting deception from speech: Humans vs. machines
Fred Eckman, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Constraints on the learning
of L2 phonemic contrasts