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Colloquia

About five times per quarter the department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. Titles and abstracts will be added below as they become available.

Spring 2012

May 11th
Dominique Sportiche
Professor, Linguistics, UC Los Angeles

Cancelled (updated 4/18/2012)
May 18th
Lisa Davidson
Associate Professor of Linguistics, New York University

"An investigation of hiatus (non-)resolution in American English" Abstract
4 p.m. Room 210, Humanities 1
June 1st
Hotze Rullmann
Associate Professor, Linguistics, University of British Columbia

Rescheduled for 4 p.m. Stevenson Fireside Lounge (updated 4/18/2012)

Previous Colloquia

March 16th
Gabriela Caballero
Assistant Professor, Linguistics, UC San Diego

"Stress and tone in Choguita Raramuri (Tarahumara) word prosody" Abstract
4 p.m. Room 210, Humanities 1
March 2nd
Matthew Gordon
Professor of Linguistics, UC Santa Barbara

"Lexical and post-lexical accentology, morphology, and weight in Muskogean: Case studies from Koasati and Chickasaw" Abstract
4 p.m. Room 210, Humanities 1
February 3
Masaya Yoshida
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University

"The real-time processing of Forward and Backward Sluicing" Abstract
4 p.m. Room 202, Humanities 1
December 2nd
Karen Jesney
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California

"The Interaction of Markedness Factors in Child Consonant Cluster Acquisition" Abstract

4 p.m. Room 210, Humanities 1
November 18th
Larry Horn, Professor of Linguistics, Yale University

"On the Contrary: Pragmatic Strengthening and Disjunctive Syllogism" Abstract

4 p.m. Room 210, Humanities 1
November 4th
Hagit Borer, Professor of Linguistics, University of Southern California

"In the Event of a Nominal" Abstract

4 p.m. Room 210, Humanities 1
September 30th
Pranav Anand, Assistant Professor, Linguistics Department, UC Santa Cruz

"Assessing the pragmatics of experiments: The case of scalar implicature" Abstract

4 p.m. Room 210, Humanities 1