October 23, 2015
Transitions | Talks and events
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Transitions
Two reports have crossed the editors' desks:
- Congratulations to Anna Jurgensen (MA 2015), who has accepted a position as a Strategic Search Consultant with the San Francisco legal services firm H5.
- Now you can like us on Facebook! The Facebook group "Friends of Berkeley Linguistics" is changing to an education page; you can like it and you don't have to "join". (Thanks to an unnamed faculty colleague for suggesting that the Cal Linguistics Publicity Team get with the times. The non-joiners on the Team are happy about this transition.)
Talks and events
- Friday, October 23
- 3–5: Gregory Scontras (Stanford), "Formalizing the role of context in ambiguity resolution" (Syntax and Semantics Circle, 1303 Dwinelle)
- Monday, October 26
- 1–2:30: Elizabeth Kon (Berkeley), "Bayesian pragmatics in a spatial language game" (CogNetwork, 1229 Dwinelle)
- 2–3: Ph Journal Club (Phonetics and Phonology Forum, 1303 Dwinelle)
- 3–5: Jonathan Bobaljik (Stanford), "Morphological Universals: Suppletion and Structure" (Linguistics Colloquium, 370 Dwinelle)
- Tuesday, October 27
- 9:30–11: Heriberto Avelino (Berkeley), on methods and lessons from phonetic fieldwork in Mesoamerica (Fieldwork Forum, 1303 Dwinelle)
- 3:30–5: Chundra Cathcart (Lund), "Inheritance, advergence, convergence and drift in Eurasian typology" (Historical Linguistics Forum, a.k.a. *dhworom, 1229 Dwinelle)
- Thursday, October 29
- 5–6: Society of Linguistics Undergraduates, 1229 Dwinelle
- Friday, October 30
- 11–12:30: Florian Jaeger (Rochester), "Communication, and Cross-linguistic Generalizations" (Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences, 5101 Tolman)
- 3–5: Andreas Walker (Konstanz and UC Santa Cruz), "Two ways to catch a (counterfactual) donkey" (Syntax and Semantics Circle, 1303 Dwinelle)
- Colloquia at other universities
- Santa Cruz, Friday, Oct. 30: Ivano Caponigro (UC San Diego), TBA (UC Santa Cruz Linguistics Colloquium, 2-4 pm)
- Stanford, Friday, Oct. 30: Bernard Comrie (UC Santa Barbara), TBA (Stanford Linguistics Colloquium, 3:30 pm)
- Merced, Monday, Oct. 26: Paul Smolensky (Johns Hopkins), "Gradient symbols in grammar" (UC Merced CogSci Colloquium, 3 pm)