Winter/Spring 2002, Linguistics Talks

• Wed, January 30: Shigeru Miyagawa, MIT
  Some Consequences of the EPP Analysis of Scrambling
  Abstract of the talk
  4:30, Room 111 ML
  
  
• Thurs, January 31: Joe Pater, U. of Massachusetts, Amherst
  Constraint Ranking in Child Production and Perception
  Abstract of the talk
  4:30, Room 111 ML
  
  
• Fri, February 1: Joe Pater, U. of Massachusetts, Amherst (Sponsored by the Cornell Phonetics Lab)
  Assimilation Drives Metathesis in Balantak: Implications for Theories of Possible Repairs in OT
  Abstract of the talk
  12:20, Room B11 ML
  
  
• Thurs, February 14: Osamu Fujimura, Ohio State
  Prosodic Organization of Utterances
  Abstract of the talk
  4:30, Room 111 ML
  
  
• Thurs, March 7: Alec Marantz, MIT
  Morphology and Brain: Similarity vs. Identity in Mental Representations
  Abstract of the talk
  4:30, Room 106 ML
  
  
• Fri, March 8: Alec Marantz, MIT (co-sponsored with Cognitive Science)
  Accounting for Paradigmatic Effects through the Structure of the Vocabulary: Against "No Blur"
  Abstract of the talk
  12:20, Room 165 MG
  
  
• Mon, March 11: Lee Bickmore, SUNY Albany (sponsored by the Cornell Phonetics Lab)
  Pre-pausal High Tone Lowering in Chilungu (Zambian Bantu)
  Abstract of the talk
  4:30, Room 111 ML
  
  
• Thurs, March 28: Janet Pierrehumbert, Northwestern
  Viability of Phonotactic and Prosodic Units
  Abstract of the talk
  4:30, Room 202 Uris Hall
  
  
• Fri, March 29: Janet Pierrehumbert, Northwestern (co-sponsored with Cognitive Science)
  Statistical Discrimination and Phonetic Encoding
  Abstract of the talk
  12:20, Room 165 MG
  
  
• Thurs, April 4: Brendan Jackson, Cornell
  Remarks on the Semantics of Generic Definites
  4:30, Room 111 ML
  
  
• Thurs, April 11: Anna Szabolcsi, NYU
  Positive Polarity - Negative Polarity
  Abstract of the talk
  4:30, Room 111 ML
  
  
• Fri, April 12: Anna Szabolcsi, NYU
  Disjunction and Conjunction Meet Negation: A Cross-linguistic Study
  12:20, Room B09 ML
  
  
• Mon, April 15: Rajend Mesthrie, University of Cape Town and NYU (co-sponsored with the Institute for African Development)
  Europe Meets Africa in Language: An Examination of Fanakalo Pidgin in South Africa
  Abstract of the talk
  5:00, Room 111 ML
  
  
• Thurs, April 18: Chris Collins, Cornell
  The Passive as Remnant Movement
  4:30, Room 111 ML
  
  
• Thurs, April 25: Andy Pawley, Australian National U.
  The Austronesian Dispersal: Languages, Technology anbd People
  4:30, Room 111 ML
  
  
• April 26-28: Ninth Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA 9)
  
  
• Tue, May 7: Akin Akinlabi, Rutgers (sponsored by the Cornell Phonetics Lab)
  Tonal Complexes
  4:00, Room 111 ML