April 10, 2015
Awesomeness | Conference travel | Newly published | Talks
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Awesomeness
More talks this week have topics TBA than in any previous issue of Calques. Go Bears!
Conference travel
James A. Matisoff attended a workshop, "Continuum of the Richness of Languages and Dialects in Myanmar", held in Rangoon, Myanmar, on March 25-26 and co-organized by Berkeley PhD Kenneth VanBik. See this link for a news article with an excellent picture!
Newly published
This just in:
- Hyman, Larry M. Hyman, 2015. "Towards a canonical typology of prosodic systems", in Tono, accento y estructuras métricas en lenguas mexicanas, ed. by Esther Herrera Zendejas (México: El Colegio de México), pp. 13-38
Talks
- CogNetwork (M 1–2:30, irregular location1229 Dwinelle)
- April 13: Teenie Matlock (UC Merced), TBA
- Fieldwork Forum (Fforum, Th 2–3:30, 1303 Dwinelle)
- April 16: Yoram Meroz, "The segmental phonology of Yahgan"
- Phonetics and Phonology Forum (Phorum, M 12–1, 1303 Dwinelle)
- April 13: Sharon Inkelas & Darya Kavitskaya (UC Berkeley) TBA
- Sociophonetic Reading Exchange and Discussion (SPREAD, F 1-2, 1303 Dwinelle)
- Stanford Linguistics Colloquium (F 3:30-5, Greenberg Room, Building 460, Stanford)
- April 10: Ivano Caponigro (UC San Diego), "Richard Montague: The simplicity of language, the complexity of life. Toward a biography"
- Syntax & Semantics Circle (F 3:30–5, 1303 Dwinelle)
- April 10: Vera Gribanova (Stanford), TBA
- April 17: Erik Zyman (UCSC), TBA
- Unicode Working Group (M 3-5 pm, 356 Barrows = D-Lab)
- April 13: Katsuhiko Momoi (Google), "Emoji in Unicode: Its History and Future — from Galapagos Mobile to the World"