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2015 Hoenigswald Prize in Linguistics awarded
April 15, 2015
Congratulations to Jacob Kaufman, this year’s recipient of the Hoenigswald Prize in Linguistics for the best senior thesis.
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Linguistics majors inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.
April 15, 2015
Congratulations to graduating linguistic majors LAURA E ANTHONY and INGRID M HEIDELBERGER, who will be inducted into Phi Beta Kappa on Friday May 15 2015.
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Congratulations to graduating linguistic majors LAURA E ANTHONY and INGRID M HEIDELBERGER, who will be inducted into Phi Beta Kappa on Friday May 15 2015.
April 15, 2015
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Florian Schwarz to speak at Northwestern University
April 9, 2015
Friday, April 10, 2015: Experimental Comparisons of Presuppositions and Implicatures
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Florian Schwarz to speak at the University of Michigan
February 26, 2015
Florian Schwarz will be giving a talk at the University of Michigan's Spring Colloquium in Philosophy, titled 'Semantics & Pragmatics: Perspectives from the Experimental Study of Meaning'.
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Florian Schwarz to speak at Harvard
January 26, 2015
Florian Schwarz will be giving a Linguistics Colloquium talk at Harvard on Friday, Jan 30, 2015. The title of the talk is: "Experimental Comparisons of Presuppositions and Implicatures".
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Sabriya Fisher, Hilary Prichard and Betsy Sneller receive a Best Student Paper Award at NWAV 43
November 16, 2014
Sabriya Fisher, Hilary Prichard and Betsy Sneller received a Best Student Paper Award for their presentation at NWAV 43 which was held in Chicago on October 23-26, 2014. The title of their paper was "The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree: incremental change in Philadelphia families". Their abstract can be found at the NWAV 43 website.
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Julie Anne Legate to give a "Knowledge by the Slice" talk
November 13, 2014
Julie Anne Legate will be giving a "Knowledge by the Slice" talk on November 18, 2014, at noon. The title of the talk is "Mapping the Boundaries of Human Language".
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The MIT Press publishes Julie Anne Legate's new book, Voice and v
October 28, 2014
Julie Anne Legate's new book, Voice and v. Lessons from Achenese, has been published by The MIT Press as a Linguistic Inquiry Monograph. In Voice and v, Julie Anne Legate investigates the syntactic structure of voice, using Acehnese as the empirical starting point. A central claim is that voice is encoded in a functional projection, VoiceP, which is distinct from, and higher than, vP.
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Florian Schwarz giving talks at UCLA and Rutgers
October 23, 2014
Florian Schwarz is giving talks at UCLA and Rutgers in October. The first talk is titled "Domain Restriction for Definite Descriptions - An Experimental Perspective" and it part of a panel on "Computational and experimental approaches to reference and anaphoric inference", AMPRA 2, held at UCLA on October 18, 2014. The title of the second talk is "Presuppositions and Implicatures in Online Processing" and it will be a colloquium talk given at Rutgers on October 24, 2014.