September 9, 2016
Bnews | Travels | Talks and events
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Bnews
A blog(link is external) is a web log, so web news is bnews. The Calques editors have heard from the Linguistics Department website editors, a few doors down here in Bling Hall, that the department home page features a new spotlight research area this week!
Travels
Several Berkeley linguists are recently back from European travels:
- Susanne Gahl(link is external) was an invited speaker at the 1st Workshop on Spoken Morphology: Phonetics and Phonology of Complex Words(link is external) in Düsseldorf.
- Larry Hyman was in Paris to attend the 2nd International Congress "Towards Proto-Niger-Congo: Comparison and Reconstruction(link is external)".
- Julia Nee und Amy Rose Deal(link is external) haben einen Vortrag bei Sinn u. Bedetutung 21(link is external) in Edinburgh gehalten. (Peter Jenks(link is external) was also a coauthor of a paper presented there!)
- And Eve Sweetser went to the Netherlands over the long holiday weekend to serve on a doctoral defense.
Welcome home to all!
Talks and events
- Friday, September 9
- 3–4:30: Round Robin discussion (Syntax & Semantics Circle(link is external), 1303 Dwinelle)
- Monday, September 12
- 12–1: Brian W. Smith(link is external) (UC Santa Cruz), "French schwa and cumulative constraint interaction" (Phonetics and Phonology Forum(link is external), 1303 Dwinelle)
- Tuesday, September 13
- 12:30–2: Virginia Dawson, "Investigating indefinites" (Fieldwork Forum, 1303 Dwinelle)
- 1–2: SPREAD (Sociophonetic Research Exchange and Discussion(link is external), 57 Dwinelle)
- 5–6:30: Robert Eklund(link is external) (Linköping), "Melody in Human–Cat Communication (Meowsic): Origins, Past, Present and Future" (1303 Dwinelle)
- Wednesday, September 14
- 5–6: Phonology Lab Tour, Society of Linguistics Undergraduate Students (SLUgS)
- Thursday, September 15
- 12:30–2: GoOD InTEnSIOnS (Semantics reading group, 1303 Dwinelle)
- 12:30–2: Historical linguistics forum, reading discussion on sound change: selection from Catford, "Diachronic phonetics", 1977 (*dhworom)