October 24, 2014
Bon voyage | Talks | Abstract deadlines | Other deadlines
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Bon voyage
Best wishes to Berkeley students and faculty giving talks at NELS 45 (at a technology institute in Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 31 — Nov. 2): break a leg!
- Nico Baier, "Adjective agreement in Noon: Evidence for a split theory of noun-modifier concord"
- Ryan Bochnak, "Variable force modality in Washo"
- Chundra Cathcart, "A probabilistic model of Evolutionary Phonology"
- Sharon Inkelas (with Tara McAllister Byun and Yvan Rose), "Parallels in speech acquisition and loss as evidence for a grammar of articulatory reliability
Talks
- Colloquium (M 3-4:30)
- Oct. 27: Patience Epps (University of Texas at Austin), "Contact and diversity: Tracing multilingual interaction in Amazonian prehistory"
- CogNetwork (W 11:30–3, 1229 Dwinelle)
- Oct. 29: CSDL Practice Talks (Oana David; Elise Stickles, Ellen Dodge & Jisup Hong; Karie Moorman; Matt Goss; Eve Sweetser, Oana David, Seiko Fujii & Paula Radetsky; André Coneglian & Maria Helena de Moura Neves)
- Fieldwork Forum (Fforum, W 11–12, 1303 Dwinelle)
- Oct. 29: Patience Epps (University of Texas at Austin), "Specialist discourse and language change: observations from the northwest Amazon"
- Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences (ICBS seminar, F 11–12:30, 5101 Tolman)
- Oct. 24: Reza Shadmehr (Johns Hopkins), "A memory of errors in sensorimotor learning"
- Linguistic Anthropology Working Group (F 4-6, Gifford Room, 221 Kroeber Hall)
- Oct. 24: Daniel Fisher (Berkeley), " 'You Mob Listen!': Mediatization, animation, and the voice in Northern Australia"
- Phonetics and Phonology Forum (Phorum, M 12–1, 1303 Dwinelle)
- Oct. 27: Martin Kohlberger (Leiden), "Phonetic evidence for gradience: Spanish resyllabification and voicing reconsidered"
- Sociophonetic Reading Exchange and Discussion (SPREAD, F 1-2, 1303 Dwinelle)
- Syntax & Semantics Circle (F 3–4:30, 1303 Dwinelle)
- Oct. 24: NELS practice talks (Nico Baier; Ryan Bochnak)
- Oct. 31: Lelia Glass (Stanford)
Abstract deadlines
- BLS 41: Berkeley Linguistics Society (Berkeley, Feb. 7-8)
- abstract deadline Oct. 31
- "Linguistic Landscape: Questioning Boundaries, Opening Spaces" (Berkeley, May 7-9)
- abstract deadline Nov. 1
- ICLC 13: International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (Northumbria Univ., Newcastle, July 20-25)
- abstract deadline Nov. 3
- CSANA 2015: Celtic Studies Association of North America, meeting with the 37th California Celtic Conference (Berkeley, March 5-8)
- abstract deadline Nov. 20 (submit abstracts by email to Eve Sweetser)
- Formal Semantics Meets Cognitive Semantics (Nijmegen, Jan. 22-23)
- abstract deadline Nov. 21
- GLOW 38: Generative Linguistics in the Old World (Paris, April 15-18)
- abstract deadline Dec. 1
- SALT 25: Semantics and Linguistic Theory (Stanford, May 15-17)
- abstract deadline Dec. 1
- ACAL 46: Annual Conference on African Linguistics (U. Oregon, March 26-28)
- abstract deadline Dec. 8
- CLS 50: Chicago Linguistic Society (Chicago, April 10-12)
- abstract deadline Jan. 7
Other deadlines
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowships: Nov. 3
- Townsend Center Dissertation Fellowships and Faculty Fellowships: Nov. 14
- National Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages (June 1-12): application deadline Nov. 15
- NIH Individual Research Fellowships: Dec. 8
- Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting (Jan. 8-11): preregistration deadline Dec. 19
- NSF Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants and Research Grants: Jan 15