October 2, 2015
Awesomeness | Talks and events
Please send information and news of departmental interest to Andrew Garrett.
Awesomeness
For considerable awesomeness pertaining to Berkeley linguists, and candid photos galore, visit the "Friends of Berkeley Linguistics" Facebook group. There you will find the final word on how many people won Student Abstract Awards (hint: scads).
Talks and events
- Monday, October 5
- 1–2:30: Laure Sarda (École Normale Supérieure), "Existential constructions in typological perspective: Drawing a map from parallel corpora data" (CogNetwork, 1229 Dwinelle)
- 2–3: Alan Yu, TBA (Phonetics and Phonology Forum, 1303 Dwinelle)
- 3–5: Dan Jurafsky (Stanford), "Extracting social meaning from language: the computational linguistics of food, innovation, and community" (Linguistics Colloquium, 370 Dwinelle)
- 3–4:30: David Temperley (Eastman School of Music), "Repetition and Information Flow in Music and Language" (UC Merced CogSci Colloquium)
- Tuesday, October 6
- 9:30–11, discussion: FLEx demo and trouble shooting (Fieldwork Forum, 1303 Dwinelle)
- 3:30–5: John T.M. Merrill (Berkeley), "Noun Class Typology as Evidence of Genetic Relation in Africa" (Historical Linguistics Forum, a.k.a. *dhworom, 1229 Dwinelle)
- Thursday, October 8
- 5–6: Discussion with undergraduates and faculty about capstone experiences in the Linguistics major (Society of Linguistics Undergraduates, 1229 Dwinelle)
- Friday, October 9
- 3–5: Practice talks by Kenneth Baclawski, Erik Maier (Berkeley), and Christine Sheil (Syntax and Semantics Circle, 1303 Dwinelle)