Colloquium Series
Fall 2009 Location: CL 332 Time: 3:00pm
November 6th
Marlyse Baptista
University of Michigan
Topic: On the Development of Nominal and Verbal Morphology
in Four Lusophone Creoles
Abstract
November 20th TBA
December 4th
Amanda Godley & Allison Escher
English Education
University of Pittsburgh
"Bidialectal African American Adolescents' Views
of Spoken Language in the Classroom"
December 18th
Ben Friedline
"L1 influence, morphological (in)sensitivity
and L2 lexical development:
Evidence from production data"
Previous Colloquia
Fall 2009 Location: CL 332 Time: 3:00pm
September 18th
Shelome Gooden
Dpeartment of Linguistics
University of
Pittsburgh
"Musings on Prosody, Language Contact and Caribbean English Varieties"
October 2nd
TBA
October 16th
Carrie Bonilla
Department of Linguistics
University of
Pittsburgh
Practice Talk: A Quantitative Study of Paradigm Gaps for L1 and L2
Speakers of Spanish: abolo, abuelo or zero?
Abstract
Friday, April 24: Poster Session
Friday, April 10
3 pm
G8 Cathedral of Learning
Veronica Lifrieri
University of Pittsburgh
"A Puzzle for the Effort-based Approach: Spirantization in North-Central Peninsular Spanish" Abstract
Friday, April 3
3 pm
G8 Cathedral of Learning
Barbara Johnstone
Carnegie Mellon University – English Department
“Media Technology, Metalinguistic Expertise, and the Enregisternment of ‘Pittsburghese’ ” Abstract
Friday, March 27
3 pm
G8 Cathedral of Learning
Alan Yu
University of Chicago
“Toward a Rational Account of Channel Bias” Abstract
Wednesday, March 25
4 pm
208A Cathedral of Learning
Henry Davis
University of British Columbia
“The Pacific Northwest and the Limits of Linguistic Variation” Abstract
Friday, March 20
3 pm
G8 Cathedral of Learning
Christiane von Stutterheim
University of Heidelberg
“Empirical Approaches to Aspect: An Analysis of the Language System and Learner Language of Japanese, in Comparison with Germanic, Romance, and Arabic” Abstract
Friday, March 6
3 pm
G8 Cathedral of Learning
Erin O'Rourke
“Vowel Space Expansion in Peruvian Spanish Bilinguals”
Friday, February 27
3 pm
G8 Cathedral of Learning
Abdelsalam Soudi
“Sequential Organization of Adult Medical Closings under the CA Microscope” Abstract
Friday, January 30
3 pm
G8 Cathedral of Learning
Zoe Luk
University of Pittsburgh
“Is the acquisition order of grammatical morphemes impervious to L1 knowledge?
Evidence from the acquisition of plural -s, articles, and the possessive 's*”
Friday, January 23
3 pm
G8 Cathedral of Learning
Liping Chen
University of Pittsburgh
“Semantics of Chinese dou” Abstract
Friday, December 5
3 pm
332 Cathedral of Learning
Ho Leung Chan
University of Pittsburgh
"Tonal Morphology of Cantonese Attenuative Reduplication" Abstract
Friday, November 14
3 pm
332 Cathedral of Learning
Scott Kiesling and Maeve Eberhardt
University of Pittsburgh
"Tracking stance and linguistic variation in interaction" Abstract
Friday, October 31
3 pm
332 Cathedral of Learning
Shelome Gooden & Erin Donnelly
University of Pittsburgh
"The phonetics of implosives in Jamaican Creole" Abstract
Friday, October 17
3 pm
332 Cathedral of Learning
Dan Hufnagle
University of Calgary & Carnegie Mellon University
"L1/L2 acquisition and artificial languages" Abstract
Friday, October 10
3 pm
332 Cathedral of Learning
Carrie Bonilla
University of Pittsburgh
"The Role of Formal Instruction on the Acquisition of
Complex Structures in Spanish by Advanced Learners
Abroad” Abstract
Friday, October 3
3 pm
332 Cathedral of Learning
Professor Tom Cobb
Université du Québec à Montréal
"Lextutor.ca: On line vocabulary resources and research"
Abstract
Friday, September 19
3 pm
332 Cathedral of Learning
A. Juffs, M. Nugent, D. McCormick, C. O’Neill, D. Smith & G.
Mizera.
University of Pittsburgh
"The ELI database and data mining" Abstract
Friday, September 5
3 pm
332 Cathedral of Learning
Kris Geda
University of Pittsburgh
MA thesis presentation
"The enregisterment of gay sounding speech in non-gay media"
Abstract (pdf file)
Monday, August 25
10:00 am - 12:15 m
2809 Cathedral of Learning
Guillermo Rodríguez
University of Vermont & University of Pittsburgh
Ph.D. Defense
Friday, April 11
3:00 pm
Room 332 Cathedral of Learning
Wendy Martelle
Department of Linguistics
University of Pittsburgh
“The Evolution of Aspect: A Case Study in Russian” Abstract
Roberto Aranovich
Department of Linguistics
University of Pittsburgh
“Against Verb Raising in Spanish” Abstract
Friday, February
29
3:00 pm
Room 332 Cathedral of Learning
Emily McEwan-Fujita
Department of Anthropology
University of Pittsburgh
"Adult learners, native speakers, and ‘Gaelic grannies’:
How ideologies shape the Gaelic language socialization of adults in the Outer
Hebrides of Scotland"
Friday, February 8
3:00 pm
Room 332 Cathedral of Learning
Richard Donato
School of Education
University of Pittsburgh
G.R. Tucker
Modern Languages Department
Carnegie Mellon University
"Foreign Language in the Elementary Schools (FLES)"
Friday, January 18
3:00 pm
Room 332 Cathedral of Learning
Yumiko Nishi
University of Pittsburgh
"Verb learning and the acquisition of aspect: The significance of L1 transfer"
Friday, December 7
3:00 pm
Room 144 Cathedral of Learning
Patricia Pharmakis
Department of Linguistics
University of Pittsburgh
“A Formal Account of Modern Greek Nominal Inflection within the Framework of Distributed Morphology” Abstract
Friday, November 9
3:00 pm
3106 WWPH
Anthropology Lounge
Professor Michael Silverstein
University of Chicago
(co-sponsored by the Departments of Lingustics and Anthropology)
“Personal identity travels with ego: deictic stance and denotational style across interactional contexts” Abstract
Friday, October 19
3:00 - 4:25 pm
Room 144 Cathedral of Learning
Professor Pascual Masullo
University of Pittsburgh
"The Syntax-Semantics / Pragmatics Interface:
On the Arbitrariness of Arbitrary pro" Abstract
Friday, October 12
3:00 - 4:25 pm
Room 144 Cathedral of Learning
Professor David Mortensen
University of Pittsburgh
“Optimal-Constructional Morphology, or how, when our lexicon gives us lemon, we make lemonade.” Abstract
Friday, September 14
3:00 - 4:25 pm
Room 144 Cathedral of Learning
Professor Shelome Gooden
University of Pittsburgh
“Language Contact and Creole Language Prosodic Typology”
Friday, March 30 , 2007
3:00 p.m
Room 144 Cathedral of Learning
Professor Kirk Hazen
West Virginia University
“An Empirical View of Varieties of English in Appalachia" Abstract
Friday, March 2, 2007
3:00 p.m
Room 144 Cathedral of Learning
Professor Sharon Hargus
University of Washington (Seattle)
"Sahaptin Relational Nouns" Abstract
Friday, January 26 , 2007
3:00 p.m
Room 144 Cathedral of Learning
Roberto Aranovich
"Handling of Morphosyntactic Divergences in the Mapudungun/Spanish AVENUE
Transfer Grammar and Lexicon" Abstract
Monday, December 11, 2006
3:00 p.m
Room 144 Cathedral of Learning
Guillermo Rodríquez
"Sentence processing in a second language:Is it fundamentally different?"
Friday, December 1, 2006
3:00 p.m
Room 144 Cathedral of Learning
Maeve Eberhardt
"Leadership and Style-Shifting: Women's Use of (ING)"
Friday, November 17, 2006
3:00 p.m
Room 144 Cathedral of Learning
Brian Brubaker
"Shibboleths of Standardness in the Mandarin Chinese of Taiwan"
Wednesday October 18, 2006
3:00 p.m
Room 144 Cathedral of Learning
Pascual José Masullo
Department of Linguistics
University of Pittsburgh"The Syntax-Lexical Semantics Interface: Prepositionalizing Motion Verbs in Spanish"
Abstract (pdf file)
Wednesday September
27, 2006
3:00 p.m
Room 144 Cathedral of Learning
David Mortensen
Department of Linguistics
The University of Pittsburgh“A Marked Structure is Born: The Emergence of Obstruents and the Motivations for Sound Change” Abstract (pdf file)