About
The 6th Annual Linguistics Department / IULC Graduate Student Conference will be held from 1:00 to 5:45 in the afternoon on April 13th, 2012, in Ballantine Hall 007. The conference provides an important venue for students in the department (and related fields) to be exposed to the work of their peers. The talks are free and open to the public, and all are welcome to attend. Please feel free to attend as much of the program as you are able to. Abstracts from the conference are available from the schedule below.
Schedule of Talks
| Speaker | Title | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Opening Remarks (1:00 - 1:15) | ||
| Theoretical Linguistics I: Morphosyntax | ||
|
Yu-Yin Hsu |
Projections above NP in Mandarin | 1:15 - 1:45 |
|
Jason Siegel |
Demonstrative-blocking in complex NPs in Guianese French Creole | 1:45 - 2:15 |
| Break (2:15 - 2:30) | ||
| African Linguistics and Computational Linguistics | ||
| Jonathan Anderson | Rhythmic patterns of prominence in Akan/Twi | 2:30 - 3:00 |
| Mohammad Khan Eric Baucom Anthony Meyer Lwin Moe |
Projecting Farsi POS data to tag Pashto | 3:00 - 3:30 |
| Break (3:30 - 3:45) | ||
| Theoretical Linguistics II: Phonetics and Phonology | ||
| Elijah Reynolds | Stress and weight management: Egyptian Loanword Adaptation of English Words |
3:45 - 4:15 |
| Chisato Kojima |
Learners’ lexical encoding of the geminate/non-geminate |
4:15 - 4:45 |
| Beth Casserly | Acoustic feedback and speech production | 4:45 - 5:15 |
| Closing remarks and refreshments (5:15 - 5:45) | ||
Contact
For more information, please contact the IULC.
