Colloquium Schedule 2007-2008

UCLA Department of Linguistics

Colloquia will be presented in Public Policy 2250.   They are ordinarily on Fridays from 11 to 1. 

Friday, October 12 11:00-12:50 Campbell 2122 411 Orientation	Phonology 411 Orientation
Friday, October 19 11:00-12:50 Campbell 2122 411 Orientation	Computational and Mathematical Linguistics 411 Orientation
Friday, October 19 3:00-4:50 Campbell 2122 Colloquium	Benjamin Spector, Harvard Society of Fellows Hurford's constraint and the theory of scalar implicatures: the case for embedded implicatures Faculty host: Philippe Schlenker
Friday, October 26 11:00-12:50 Campbell 2122 411 Orientation	Phonetics 411 Orientation
Friday, November 16 11:00-12:50 Campbell 2122 411 Orientation	Language Areas 411 Orientation
Friday, November 30	WECOL at UC San Diego
Friday, January 11 11:00-12:50 Public Policy 2250 Colloquium	Collin Phillips, University of Maryland Title: How Grammars Leak (abstract) Faculty host: Ed Stabler Student hosts: Robyn Orfitelli and Sarah VanWagenen
Friday, January 18 11:00-12:50 Public Policy 2250 Colloquium	Armin Mester, University of California, Santa Cruz Title: The prosody of function word complexes (abstract) Faculty host: Kie Zuraw Student host: Roy Becker
Friday, January 25 11:00-12:50 Public Policy 2250 Colloquium	Edwin Williams, Princeton University Title: What is a clause? (abstract) Faculty host: Hilda Koopman Student host: Vincent Homer
Monday, January 28 16:00-17:50 Public Policy 2250 Job Talk	Adrian Staub, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Title: On Apparently Ungrammatical Analyses in Sentence Processing (abstract)
Thursday, January 31 16:00-17:50 Broad Art Center 2100A Job Talk	John Hale, Michigan State University Title: Quantifying Sentence Processing with Information (abstract)
Friday, February 1 11:00-12:50 Public Policy 2250 Colloquium	LouAnn Gerken, University of Arizona Title: Exploring a Hypothesis Selection Approach to Language Acquisition (abstract) Faculty host: Carson Schütze Student hosts: Robyn Orfitelli and Sarah VanWagenen
Monday, February 4 16:00-17:50 Public Policy 2250 Job Talk	Mieko Ueno, University of Oregon Title: Event-related Brain Potentials in the Processing of Subject and Object Relative Clauses in Japanese (abstract)
Friday, February 8	BLS at UC Berkeley
Monday, February 11 16:00-17:50 Public Policy 2250 Job Talk	Roger Levy, University of California, San Diego Title: Probabilistic knowledge in human language comprehension and production (abstract)
Friday, February 22 11:00-12:50 Public Policy 2250 Colloquium	Roumyana Pancheva, University of Southern California Title: One –er, (sort of) two thans (abstract) Faculty host: Kie Zuraw Student host: Ji Eun Kim
Friday, April 4 11:00-12:50 Public Policy 2250 Colloquium	Ben Keil, University of California, Los Angeles Title: Generating Descriptions of Motion from Cognitive Representations (abstract) Faculty host: Marcus Kracht Student hosts: Byron Ahn
Friday, April 11 11:00-12:50 Rolfe 1200 (not Public Policy 2250!) Colloquium	Derek Bickerton, University of Hawaii, Honolulu Title: Are Creoles exceptional languages? (abstract)
Friday, April 18 11:00-12:50 Public Policy 2250 Colloquium	Rajesh Bhatt, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Title: Two -er's and their distribution (abstract) Faculty host: Hilda Koopman Student host: Sameer Khan
Friday, April 25 11:00-12:50 Public Policy 2250 Colloquium	Dave Schueler, University of California, Los Angeles Title: On implicit conditionals (abstract) Faculty host: Daniel Büring Student hosts: James Pannacciulli and Craig Sailor
Friday, May 2 11:00-12:50 Public Policy 2250 Colloquium	Chacha Mwita, University of California, Los Angeles Title: Predictability in the Kuria tone system (abstract) Faculty host: Russ Schuh Student hosts: Roy Becker and Denis Paperno
Friday, May 9 11:00-12:50 Public Policy 2250 Colloquium	Katie Tang, University of California, Los Angeles Title: A Constraint-Based Approach to Consonant-Tone Interaction (abstract) Faculty host: Russ Schuh Student hosts: Molly Shilman and Chad Vicenik
Friday, May 16 – Sunday, May 18	WCCFL at UCLA
Friday, May 23 11:00-12:50 Public Policy 2250 Colloquium	Kuniko Nielsen, University of California, Los Angeles Title: Word-level and feature-level effects in phonetic imitation (abstract) Faculty host: Pat Keating Student hosts: Ji Eun Kim and Tomoko Ishizuka
Friday, June 6 14:00-15:50 Public Policy 2250 Syntax/Semantics Seminar	Heather Willson, University of California, Los Angeles Title: Marshallese Declarative Word Order and Subject Position (abstract) Faculty host: Anoop Mahajan

Last updated: May 31, 2008