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Events

Colloquium Schedule - Fall 2008

Date	Speaker	Talk Title
Sep 1
Sep 8
Sep 15
Sep 22
Sep 29
Oct 6
Oct 13
Oct 20
Oct 27
Nov 3
Nov 10	Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
Nov 17
Nov 24
Dec 1

Special dates, times and/or locations are indicated like this.

Time and Location

Colloquia are held on Mondays in UTC room 4.110, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. unless otherwise noted.

Previous Colloquia

Colloquium Schedule - Spring 2008

Date	Speaker	Talk Title
Jan 14
Jan 22 3:30pm PAR 103	Claire Bowern, Dept. of Linguistics, Rice	"Guessing is more fun"? Linguistic Prehistory Methods in Australia.
Jan 28
Feb 4	Sharon Goldwater Department of Linguistics, Stanford University	From sounds to words: Bayesian modeling of early language acquisition
Feb 8 10 - 11:30am MEZ B0.306	Rajka Smiljanic Northwestern University	Phonetic variation and phonological contrast in hyper-articulated speech
Feb 11 3:00 - 4:30pm	Noah Silbert Indiana University	Independence of phonological features in speech perception
Feb 21 4:00pm-5:30pm CAL 100	Jerrold M. Sadock Department of Linguistics University of Chicago	Basic Features of Automodular Analysis
Feb 22 10 - 11:30am MEZ B0.306	Yi Xu University College London	Modelling speech prosody based on communicative functions and articulatory dynamics
Feb 25	Victoria Bricker, Dept. of Anthropology, Tulane University	The Function of Parallelism in Tzotzil Narrative
Mar 3	Tom Humphries University of California, San Diego	Scientific explanation" and other performance acts in the reorganization of DEAF"
Mar 10
Mar 17	David Quinto-Pozos, University of Illinois	Depicting animacy in American Sign Language: Examining gestural and linguistic strategies
Mar 24	Paul Kroeger	"The problem of 'symmetric voice' in Austronesian".
Mar 31
Apr 7

Colloquium Schedule - Fall 2007

Date	Speaker	Talk Title
Sep 7 10-11am Par 10	Andrew Kehler, Department of Linguistics UCSD	Coherence and the (Psycho-) Linguistics of Pronoun Interpretation
Sep 10 UTC 4.110	Doug Bigham, Linguistics Department UT Austin	The PIN~PEN Merger: Movement of Front Vowel Allophones in Pre-Nasal Position
Sep 17
Sep 24
Oct 1
Oct 8
Oct 15	Andy Rogers	Addressee Presuppositions?
Oct 22
Oct 29
Nov 5
Nov 12	Knud Lambrecht Department of French and Italian, UT Austin	Syntactic Amalgams Re-revisited. Apokoinou Sentences in Spoken English
Nov 19
Nov 26	Carol Padden Department of Communication and Center for Research in Language, UCSD	Is there an underlying constituent order in human languages? The case of a new sign language
Dec 3	Lars Hinrichs Department of English, UT Austin	The language of the diaspora: Identity-based variation in online and face-to-face contexts
Dec 10


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