Friday Colloquia: Spring 2008

Unless otherwise noted, colloquia are held on Fridays at 4:00pm in Silver 414. All colloquia are followed by a reception and dinner with the speaker.


Selection and Drift in language

Charles Yang

February 1

Creaky Voice in Narrative and Beyond: Pitch, Gender and the Exploitation of Phonatory Settings.

Norma Mendoza-Denton

Sociolinguistics

TBA

What it means to be 'sufficiently similar': trajectory of a phonologically significant generalization

Eric Bakovic

Phonology

March 28

The integration of a new low-central vowel in Canadian English

Charles Boberg

Sociolinguistics

April 11

Tense and Presuppositions in Counterfactual Conditionals

Arnim von Stechow

Semantics

April 18

Last Modified: March 24, 2008