Friday Colloquia: Spring 2007

Unless otherwise noted, colloquia are held on Fridays at 4:15pm in Silver 208. All colloquia are followed by a reception and dinner with the speaker.


Getting to Optimality

John J. McCarthy

Phonology

February 9


Negative Inversion and the Negative Focus Feature in AAE

Lisa Green

Syntax

March 2


"Integrating the Family Tree and Wave Models of Change: The Case of New York City Short-a"

Bill Labov

Sociolinguistics

March 23


On the Varieties of Individual De Se

Pranav Anand

Semantics

April 20


"Sound with meaning: Neural systems for spoken language comprehension"

Matt Davis

Neurolinguistics

April 27


Last Modified: April 27, 2007