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by Patrick Pei Liu

Just a reminder that tooday is the 2nd day of the MBB graduate student conference "War: The Cognitive Science of Conflict." The program includes a talk on "The effect of native and foreign language on early social cognition." The rest of the program can be viewed here: http://mbb.harvard.edu/gradconferencehome.html Hope to see you there! --patrick

18 years

Looking for Borrowed Books

by Andrew Nevins

Dear Friends, I am looking for the following books, each of which I have loaned to probably different people. Could you let me know if you have my copy? Thanks, Andrew 1. The Origins of Music 2. Common Slavic -- by Townsend & Janda 3. Vowel Reduction in Optimality Theory -- Widener copy -- by K. Crosswhite.

18 years

Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium

by Bridget Samuels

Hi everyone, This is a reminder that the 4th Annual Harvard Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium will be held this weekend, April 22-23, in Harvard Hall 104. This year we have six Harvard presenters and thirteen others from across the U.S. and Canada. Our keynote speaker is Prof. Marc Hauser from Harvard's Department of Psychology. We hope you'll come and show your support for LinG! There will be something for everyone, with a variety of talks on acquisition, phonology, semantics, sociolinguistics, syntax, and historical topics. A schedule and registration information can be found at http://hcs.harvard.edu/ling/conference-schedule-2006.pdf. Here's a list of the Harvard presenters: Saturday, April 22 11:00am Inna Livitz - What's in a nominative? Implications of Russian non-nominative subjects for a cross-linguistic approach to subjecthood 12:15am Robyn Orfitelli - Raising with & without an experiencer phrase: evidence for late acquisition 3:30pm Caroline Jackson - Verbs in space: the development of cognition & the acquisition of morphosyntax in children learning sign languages Sunday, April 23 10:30am Bridget Samuels - Problems in Attic phonology 1:45pm Marina Fisher - Competing theories & conflicting evidence: the role of UG in second language acquisition 2:15pm Jeremy Hartman - A focus account of 'swiping' 3:30pm Marc Hauser - The mind of a linguistic creature Additionally, there will be a reception at my house after the conclusion of the conference on Saturday evening, to which all are invited. Hope to see you this weekend! Bridget on behalf of the LinG board

18 years

Anti-Locality Workshop @ Harvard April 22nd, 1pm

by Clemens Mayr

Dear all, This is a reminder that there will be a anti-locality workshop this coming Saturday at Harvard. Date: Saturday, April 22nd Time: 1 pm Location: Harvard, Boylston 303 Talks will include: a keynote by Kleanthes Grohmann (University of Cyprus) addressing the key issues of anti-locality Zejlko Boskovic (University of Connecticut) Andrew Nevins (Harvard) on the OCP Cedric Boeckx (Harvard) and students from both Harvard and UConn. For further information see also: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/ ~lingdept/events.html We are looking forward to seeing you. Best wishes, Cedric & Clemens

18 years

Web Pages

by Andrew Nevins

Hello All, I have receive some queries about how to set up webpages with an FAS account. Here's the info: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/computing/kb/kb0032.html Best, Andrew --------------------- nevins(a)fas.harvard.edu 617-495-8107 Fax: 617-496-4447 http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~lingdept/f_nevins.html

18 years, 1 month

call for papers

by Patrick Pei Liu

Dear members and guests of the Harvard Linguistics department, We are still soliciting contributions for the next issue of Harvard Working Papers. We have extended the deadline to Mon., Apr. 3. Please let me and Slava know if you plan to contribute (ppliu@fas and gorbach@fas). We may be able to be slightly flexible with the deadline if you need a little extra time. For guidelines about style and formatting, please go to the following website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Elingpub/hwpil/hwpilmain.html We look forward to your contributions! Thank you, Slava and Patrick

18 years, 1 month

Fwd: Andrea Moro, March 21st 2006, Harvard GSAS Colloquium

by Clemens Mayr

Dear all, Please join us for another Harvard GSAS colloquium talk. Find information below: > March 21, 2006 - Andrea Moro (Universita Vita-Salute San Raffaele, > Milano, > Italy) > The talk will be at 5pm in Fong Auditorium > (Boylston Hall, 1st floor). > Title: The history of the copula > Reception to follow the talk. > > best > cedric > > Cedric Boeckx > Dept of Linguistics > Harvard University > Boylston Hall > Cambridge, MA 02138

18 years, 1 month

Fwd: MIND MORPHOLOGY: Connections, Combinations and Implications: Thurs, Feb. 23, 4pm

by Andrew Nevins

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bradford Z. Mahon <mahon(a)fas.harvard.edu> Date: Feb 21, 2006 12:40 PM Subject: MIND MORPHOLOGY: Connections, Combinations and Implications: Thurs, Feb. 23, 4pm Dear All, This Thursday, Miguel Vazquez-Larruscain will be presenting in the Cognitive Neuropsychology Laboratory on theoretical issues related to morphology; the case study is the past tense of Spanish verbs. It promises to be an interesting talk, and all are invited to attend. Please see the abstract below. Best Brad Ps. If you know of folks who may be interested in attending who are not on this list, please feel free to forward this message; please ask that they email mahon(a)fas.harvard.edu if they will attend. MIND MORPHOLOGY: Connections, Combinations and Implications. Miguel Vazquez-Larruscain, Northeastern University February 23 4pm Cognitive Neuropsychology Laboratory, William James Hall 9th floor Morphology can only be understood as the product of the human mind: lists of irregularities are an embarrassment in the design of any combinatorial symbolic system. They are only understandable as the result of unifying two different and sometimes competing properties of the mind: productive combination and associative storage - as suggested in Pinker and Ullman's Words&Rules model. DATR formalisms are extremely efficient in integrating both idiosyncratic and regular categories within the same system by using prioritized constraints. Inflection is represented as a database and diacritics are replaced by a richly structured network of morphological categories in an inheritance hierarchy. This work exemplifies major theoretical points in morphology with the analysis of the Spanish verb in all its complexity. A computational program is presented and the audience is invited to interact with the program in the search for patterns found in child language or language disorders.

18 years, 2 months

Fwd: Neurolinguistics reading group-reminder

by Andrew Nevins

Dear All, This is the first and last message I will send about the neurolinguistics reading group at MIT, which the yhave asked me to forward. Looks interesting! Andrew ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Asaf Bachrach <asaf(a)mit.edu> Date: Feb 9, 2006 4:19 PM Subject: Neurolinguistics reading group-reminder To: ling-grad(a)mit.edu, ling-vis(a)mit.edu, ling-fac(a)mit.edu Dear all, Just a reminder that the first meeting of the neurolinguistics reading group will take place tomorrow, Friday at 10 PM in 32-D461 [4th floor conference room). We should have by then the web site data and a mailing list. If you want to be on the mailing list but will not be able to make it tomorrow please e-mail me directly. Asaf

18 years, 3 months

Experiment

by Andrew Nevins

The University of Potsdam, Germany, is looking for native speakers of American English to participate in linguistics experiments on intonation. Subjects will take part in a 40-60 minute session with a laptop, headphones, and a microphone. Depending on time, they'll be compensated form $8-$10. Experiments will take place in the phonetics lab of the linguistics department; scheduling is very flexible. If you’re eligible and interested, please get in touch to schedule a session. email: e.medved(a)gmail.com phone: 617.797.2810

18 years, 5 months

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