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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 13:55:11 -0800 (PST)
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the SESQUIPEDALIAN Volume VI, No. 9
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Cleopatra dies (30 BC) November 30, 1995
JOB TALK
Part 2: Applicant talk
"I KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH STRESSFUL SITUATIONS":
A) I'm usually on Prozac.
B) When I'm not, I take lots of cigarette and coffee breaks.
"I SEEK A JOB THAT WILL DRAW UPON MY STRONG COMMUNICATION AND
ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS":
...I talk too much and like to tell other people what to do.
"I'M EXTREMELY ADEPT AT ALL MANNER OF OFFICE ORGANIZATION":
...I've used Microsoft Office.
"I'M HONEST, HARD-WORKING AND DEPENDABLE":
...I pilfer office supplies.
"MY PERTINENT WORK EXPERIENCE INCLUDES":
...I hope you don't ask me about all the McJobs I've had.
"I TAKE PRIDE IN MY WORK":
...I blame others for my mistakes.
"I'M BALANCED AND CENTERED":
...I'll keep crystals at my desk and do Tai Chi in the lunch
room.
"I HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOR":
...I know a lot of corny, old jokes and I tell them badly.
"I'M PERSONABLE":
...I give lots of unsolicited personal advice to co-workers.
"I'M WILLING TO RELOCATE":
...As I leave San Quentin, anywhere's better.
"I'M EXTREMELY PROFESSIONAL":
...I carry a Day-Timer.
"MY BACKGROUND AND SKILLS MATCH YOUR REQUIREMENTS":
...You're probably looking for someone more experienced.
"I AM ADAPTABLE":
...I've changed jobs a lot.
"I AM ON THE GO":
...I'm never at my desk. [I don't answer the phone.]
"I'M HIGHLY MOTIVATED TO SUCCEED":
...The minute I find a better job. I'm outta there.
"I HAVE FORMAL TRAINING":
...I'm a college drop-out.
"I INTERACT WELL WITH CO-WORKERS":
...I've been accused of sexual harassment.
"THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND CONSIDERATION":
...Wait! Don't throw me away!
"I LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU SOON:
...Like, I'm gonna hold my breath waiting for your stupid
form letter thanking me "for my interest and wishing
me luck in my future career."
-/-\-/ LOOK WHO'S TALKING /-\-/-
XEROX PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) Forum
Thursday, Nov. 30, 1995
4:00 p.m., PARC Auditorium
Creoles And The Question Of Language Innateness
John McWhorter
U.C. Berkeley Linguistics
Creoles are hybrid languages spoken in many postcolonial societies.
For example, Caribbean creoles like Jamaican English "patois" and
Haitian Creole French developed amidst the plantation slave trade in
the 1600s. A creole is unintelligible to speakers of the very
language that provides its vocabulary, because that vocabulary is used
in a syntax that is partly African and partly innate. For example, in
the Suriname creole Sranan, A OSO FU DEN HANSO TE is composed of
English words, but only with training do we learn that it means THE
HOUSE IS VERY PRETTY.
How creoles originate is hotly contested. However, one of the
most influential proposals has been Derek Bickerton's, that plantation
slave children created creoles spontaneously. This idea, and
variations upon it, has attracted much attention to creoles and has
been used to support claims about innateness of language.
However, despite its wide coverage, few creolists subscribe to
the theory that creoles reflect a "language organ". Besides questions
about the data this hypothesis is based on, increasing evidence
suggests that Caribbean creoles were developed not on plantations by
children, but by adults in West African trade settlements, and only
later brought to Caribbean plantations. In this talk, I will discuss
work by a small but growing number of what has been called the "third
generation creolists", whose findings are increasingly pointing to the
need for a major revision of creole theory.
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John McWhorter is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at UC
Berkeley. He did his graduate work at Stanford, and has come to
Berkeley this fall after teaching for a year at Cornell. His main
interests are pidgins and creoles, language change, and
sociolinguistics, with a particular concentration upon Saramaccan, a
creole spoken by an isolated African-American rain forest community in
Suriname. His first book, TOWARDS A NEW MODEL OF CREOLE GENESIS, is
due next year from Peter Lang Publishing. His other interests include
performing, collecting and writing musical theatre, with a book on
African-American musical theatre history in the planning stages.
This Forum is OPEN to the public.
Host: Marti Hearst, (415) 812-4742, hearst@parc.xerox.com
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Refreshments will be served from 3:45 - 4:00 p.m.
Requests for videotapes of this Forum (Xerox personnel only) should be
addressed to Susie Mulhern, (415) 812-4068.
The PARC Auditorium is located at 3333 Coyote Hill Road in Palo Alto.
We are west of Foothill Expressway, between Page Mill Road and
Hillview Avenue. As you drive up Coyote Hill from Page Mill past the
horse pastures, PARC is the only building on the left. The auditorium
entrance is down the stairs to the left of the main entrance.
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-\-/-\ LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM \-/-\-
Friday, Dec. 1, 3:30 pm.
Margaret Jacks Hall (460), Room 146
Elizabeth C. Traugott
Stanford University
The Development of Discourse Markers
Implications for a Theory of Grammaticalization
Adverbs are well known to have different functions depending on
their syntactic and intonational properties, e.g.
(1) Many people hated it indeed
(2) Indeed, many people hated it
(Ernst 1984:202)
I investigate the historical development in English of indeed
and in fact along an adverbial cline from clause-internal
adverbial > sentential adverb > discourse marker, e.g. (with
modernized spellings):
(3) 14thC: Al that thou hast done, in thought, in speech, and in
deed, I thee forgive (manner adv.)
(4) 16thC. ... as it were, giving them sovereignty, though in
deed the inferior children have more learning (sentence adv.
contrasting expectations presented in prior clause)
(5) 17thC. any one that is not well comes far and near in hope
to be made well; indeed I did hear that it had done much good
(DM, elaborating prior claim and confirming it).
I go on to discuss implications of the findings for a theory of
grammaticalization (GR). Nominal and verbal clines have been
central to most work on GR. They are often viewed as models
of: i) increased morphosyntactic bonding, ii) unidirectional
attrition, including loss of pragmatics, semantics ("bleaching"),
categoriality, and structural autonomy. I argue that although in
some languages the adverbial cline involves increased syntactic
freedom, and therefore violates the principle of bonding, it
nevertheless illustrates other characteristics of GR, specifically
decategorialization, generalization, increase in scope, and
subjectification. GR in its early stages is defined as the
development of a lexical item in highly constrained pragmatic
and syntactic contexts into grammatical material.
-----------------
Reception follows.
For directions and a complete list of colloquia, see
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/~kessler/colloq/
-/-\-/ PHONOLOGY WORKSHOP /-\-/-
Our next Phonology Workshop will be on Thursday, 30th October 1995,
at 7:30pm.
Interaction between tone and intonation in
two Dutch dialects
Carlos Gussenhoven
University of Nijmegen
Place: Seminar Room, Margaret Jacks Hall
The Dutch dialects spoken in the south-east of the Netherlands have a
binary lexical tone opposition reminiscent of the Scandinavian word
accent contrast between Accent I and Accent II. These terms are here
used for the members of the Dutch opposition as well. The contrast is
found in stressed syllables with two sonorant moras (e.g. [bein]
Accent I: 'legs'; [bein] Accent II: 'leg'.) Stressed syllables with
one sonorant mora behave tonally like Accent I. Accent I appears to be
tonally unmarked, while Accent II has a lexical H tone on the second
mora of the stressed syllable.
The realisation of the contrast depends (a) on the
right-peripheral intonational boundary tones used, which express
'Declarative', 'Interrogative', etc. discoursal meanings, as is usual
in intonation languages, and (b) on the presence of a focus-marking
tone on the syllable. Most importantly, various tonal adjustments are
made when a lexical H appears on the last mora of the intonation
phrase, i.e. abuts the intonational boundary tones.
Data from two dialects will be considered. The dialect of
Venlo yields to a rule-based analysis, in which a final lexical tone
assimilates to the first boundary tone. The tonal adjustments in the
dialect of Roermond do not appear to be readily describable in terms
of rules. The generalisation that apparently needs to be accommodated
is that the boundary tones are realised before the final lexical tone.
This is not admitted by the association conventions in Pierrehumbert &
Beckman (1988). However, Optimality Theory provides a way to achieve
this by allowing two competing alignment constraints to cause
infixation of the boundary tones. The analysis represents work in
progress.
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Please note: The next Phonology Workshop is on TUESDAY, December 5.
Next week's phonology workshop is on Tuesday.
Stress and Tone in Dagaare
Arto Anttila Adams Bodomo
Stanford University University of Trondheim/
Stanford University
Date: Tuesday, 5th December, 7:30pm
Place: Seminar Room, Margaret Jacks Hall
Dagaare (Gur, Niger-Congo) is a two-tone language of northwestern
Ghana (Kennedy 1966, Delplanque 1983, Bodomo 1995). In this talk, we
show that Dagaare tone exhibits a mix of tonal and accentual
properties. Lexical tones work like stress: they do not spread and H
tones are quantity-sensitive. On the other hand, derived and
postlexical tones spread and are quantity-insensitive. A related
phenomenon is tonal polarity (Kenstowicz & Nikiema & 0urso 1988,
Anttila 1995) where a TBU assumes a tone opposite to that of the
adjacent TBU, giving rise to an effect reminiscent of metrical grids.
Again, only lexical tones trigger polarity. Finally, only lexical
tones trigger downstep between two adjacent H tones.
In order to derive these facts, we introduce a system of violable
constraints on possible correspondences between input tones, output
tones and TBUs (McCarthy and Prince 1995, McCarthy 1995). The
input-output distinction permits us to explain why superficially
similar tones (e.g. underlying H and derived H) behave differently.
There are no constraints like SPREAD(TONE) or FILL(TONE): spreading
and insertion follow as special cases from general correspondence
constraints.
-/-\-/ FELLOWSHIPS/ASSISTANTSHIPS /-\-/-
-- CHARLES A. EASTMAN DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIPS (dissertation
completion fellowship) Sponsor: Dartmouth College. Goals of the
Program: "To increase the number of Native American faculty in
American higher education and to bring to Dartmouth College more role
models for potential Native American graduate students among Dartmouth
undergraduates."
Tenure and Stipend:
*one year residency at Datrmouth College (Sept 1-Aug 31) in which to
complete dissertation
*$25,000 stipend
*office space
*full library privileges
*$2,500 research assistance fund
*involvement in undergraduate activities/programs for minority students
interested in academic careers
Eligibility:
*U.S. citizen of Native American descent
*career plans of college/university teaching
*has completed all academic requirements except dissertation
Deadline: March 15, 1996
Award Notification: April 3, 1996
For more information:
Dorothea French, Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies
Charles A. Eastman Dissertation Fellowship Committee
6062 Wentworth, Rm. 305
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755-3526
603/646-2107
-- THURGOOD MARSHALL DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIPS (dissertation completion
fellowship) Sponsor: Dartmouth College. Goals of the Program: "To
increase the number of African-American faculty in American higher
education and to bring to Dartmouth College more role models for
potential African-American graduate students among Dartmouth
undergraduates."
Tenure and Stipend:
*one year residency at Datrmouth College (Sept 1-Aug 31) in which to
complete dissertation
*$25,000 stipend
*office space
*full library privileges
*$2,500 research assistance fund
*involvement in undergraduate activities/programs for minority students
interested in academic careers
Eligibility:
*U.S. citizen of African-American descent
*career plans of college/university teaching
*has completed all academic requirements except dissertation
Deadline: January 10, 1996
Award Notification: March 15, 1996
For more information:
Dorothea French, Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies
Thurgood Marshall Dissertation Fellowship Committee
6062 Wentworth, Rm. 305
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755-3526
603/646-2107
-- CESAR E. CHAVEZ DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP FOR U.S. LATINA/O SCHOLARS
(dissertation completion fellowship) Sponsor: Dartmouth College.
Goals of the Program: "To increase the number of Latina/o faculty in
American higher education and to bring to Dartmouth College more role
models for potential Latina/o graduate students among Dartmouth
undergraduates."
Tenure and Stipend:
*one year residency at Datrmouth College (Sept 1-Aug 31) in which to
complete dissertation
*$25,000 stipend
*office space
*full library privileges
*$2,500 research assistance fund
*involvement in undergraduate activities/programs for minority students
interested in academic careers
Eligibility:
*U.S. citizen of Latina/o descent
*career plans of college/university teaching
*has completed all academic requirements except dissertation
Deadline: February 15, 1996
Award Notification: April 3, 1996
For more information:
Dorothea French, Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies
Cesar E. Chavez Dissertation Fellowship Committee
6062 Wentworth, Rm. 305
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755-3526
603/646-2107
-- The Compact for Faculty Diversity Dissertation Fellowships 1996-97.
Sponsor: The New England Board of Higher Education (including Univ of
Vermont, Univ of Maine, Univ of New Hampshire, Bridgewater State College,
and Boston College)
Purpose: To encourage minorities to pursue college/university teaching
careers in New England
Eligibility:
*U.S. citizen
*African-American, Hispanic, or Native American
*must have completed all requirements for degree except dissertation
*must be in a strong position to complete the dissertation within a year
Terms:
*$21,000 stipend
*office space
*library privileges
*job-placement assistance
Application:
*full CV
*statement of scholarship and teaching goals
*3 letters of rec, one must be from dissertation advisor
*dissertation prospectus
*graduate school transcript
Deadline: February 15, 1996
Contact:
Delcie Durham
Dean, Graduate School
University of Vermont
335 Waterman Bldg
Burlington, VT 05405-1060
-- University of Pittsburgh African-American Postdoctoral Fellowships
1996-97. Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh. Purpose: To enhance
diversity of its faculty as well as of the national faculty pool
Eligibility:
*African-American
*received degree before September 1st of fellowship year
*received degree in one of the following: Anthro, Bio Sci, Chem,
Communication, Computer Science, Econ, English, Geology and Planetary
Science, History, Math, Statistics, Physics, Astronomy, Poli Sci, Psych
*preference to those who show promise for tenure track appts that might
become available at Univ of Pittsburgh
Terms:
*1995-96 salary was $30,000 for 12 months. 1996-97 TBA
*health insurance
*$2500 travel and related research costs
*residency for duration of appointment
*teach one course
*up to 2 years of support
For application information, please direct queries to:
African-American Postdoctoral Fellowships
FAS Dean's Office
University of Pittsburgh
917 Cathedral of Learning
Pittsburgh, PA 15260-6109
412/624-6090 or FAX 412/624-6089
Deadline: March 1, 1996
-- Carolina Minority Postdoctoral Scholars Program. Sponsor:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Purpose: To develop
minority scholars for possible tenure track appointments at UNC
Eligibility:
*Minority student
*completed doctoral degree no later than 7/1/96 or within the last 4 years
*preference to U.S. citizens/perm residents
Terms:
*$32,500 per calendar year
*some funds available for research expenses
*all disciplines welcomed
*full-time research; may teach only one course per year
Deadline: February 1, 1996
For application information, contact:
Carolina Minority Postdoctoral Scholars Program
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Graduate Studies and Research
CB# 4000, South Bldg.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-4000
919/962-1319
-\-/-\ CALL FOR PAPERS \-/-\-
-- URL http://www.clark.net/pub/royfc/confer.html lists nearly 200
conferences for linguists, translators, interpreters, teachers of
languages, and those interested in natural language processing. It is
normally updated by the first day of each month. Over 40 conferences
with applicable links were added to the list on 1 November.
Conferences are listed in chronological order. Updates, changes,
and/or corrections should be sent to me via e-mail at:
royfcoch@clark.net.
-- LFG COLLOQUIUM AND WORKSHOPS: (August 25--27, 1996, Grenoble,
France). An LFG colloquium and workshops will take place in August
1996 in Grenoble, France. Papers are invited both within the formal
architecture of lexical-functional grammar and in the `spirit of LFG',
as a lexicalist approach to language within a parallel,
constraint-based framework. There will be a series of 20-minute talks
(with 10 minutes for discussion), as well as workshops (see below).
The talks may present results from completed as well as ongoing
research, with an emphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and
perspectives, whether descriptive, theoretical, formal or
computational. Abstract submissions should include:
- Five copies of a one-page abstract of the paper, with a title. OMIT
name and affiliation. A second page may be used for data, c-/f- and
related structures, and references, but not for text.
- A 3" by 5" card with the title of the paper and the name(s) of the
author(s), address and e-mail address.
- If possible, please send a postscript or ascii file of the abstract
via email IN ADDITION TO the five hard copies.
Papers may be placed into appropriate workshops in consultation with
author(s).
Abstracts should be sent to Tracy Holloway King by FEBRUARY 1, 1996
at the following address:
Tracy Holloway King (LFG workshop)
Linguistics Department
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2150
email: thking@csli.stanford.edu
Important dates:
February 1, 1996: deadline for receipt of abstracts
April 1, 1996: deadline for notification of acceptance (we will
send notification earlier if possible)
We are also interested in organizing a number of workshops on topics
such as:
Semantic representations and reasoning for LFG
Relating projections (mappings between syntax, semantics, prosody, ...)
Constraint competition (in, e.g., binding theory, weak crossover)
Lexicality/complex predicates, and mapping theory
Phrase structure typology (flat vs. extended X-bar structures)
Formal architecture, formal langage results, complexity
Implementing LFG: algorithms, data structures and efficiency.
Workshop on grammar writing projects
Proposals for workshops are also welcome; please contact
Chris Manning at the following address by February 1, 1996 to
propose a workshop or to volunteer to help organize a workshop.
Christopher Manning chris.manning@cmu.edu
Philosophy Dept
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890
A copy of this announcement is available by anonymous FTP from
parcftp.xerox.com as /pub/nl/lfgconference-announcement.
-- SEALS-VI: Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, May 11-13, 1996,
University of Oregon, Eugene OR. The Society encourages and welcomes
suggestions for invited speakers. The conference will feature papers
from any of the languages of Southeast Asia. Topics will include:
* descriptive, theoretical or historical linguistics
* language planning
* literacy
* linguistic anthropology
* language attitudes and ideology
* language and gender
* bilingual education
* ethnolinguistics
* discourse and conversational analysis
* language and politics
Abstracts are invited for the conference. By-February 6, 1996 please
submit five copies of an anonymous abstract with a separate 3 x 5 card
identifying: 1. the author, his/her affiliation; 2. address where
notification of acceptance or rejection should be mailed in
mid-February; 3. daytime phone number; and 4. e-mail address, if
available. The abstract should not exceed one page, however an
additional page of data and references may be submitted. Inquiries
should be directed to Kathie Carpenter at University of Oregon. (541)
346-3898 or kathiec@oregon.uoregon.edu Papers presented at SEALS VI
will be published in the Society's Proceedings. To insure inclusion
in the volume, authors are asked to submit a camera-ready copy of
their paper by August 15, 1996. Presentations will be 20 minutes in
length with 10 minutes for questions. The University of Oregon is an
equal opportunity, affirmative action institution committed to
cultural diversity and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities
Act. Accommodations for people with disabilities will be provided if
requested in advance to (503) 346-5084.
-- EIGHTH ANNUAL UCLA INDO-EUROPEAN CONFERENCE: Thee Eighth Annual
UCLA Indo-European Conference will be held on 24-25 May 1996 at the
UCLA campus. As in the past, we invite papers on any aspect of
Indo-European Studies: linguistics, archaeology, comparative mythology
and culture. Papers on both interdisciplinary and specific topics
(e.g., typology, methodology, reconstructions the relation of
IndoEuropean to other language groups, the interpretation of material
culture, etc.) are welcome. Abstracts should be approximately two
typewritten pages (doublespaced) and must be received by 15 March
1996. A period of twenty minutes will be allotted for each paper,
followed by a ten-minute discussion period. Address all abstracts and
inquiries to
IE Conference Committee
7349 Bunche Hall, UCLA
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 900241475
e-mail: iep0rmr@mvs.oac.ucla.edu
fax: 310-206-2471
Through the generosity of its donors, the Friends and Alumni of
Indo-European Studies (FAIES) will offer a prize for Mee best paper by
a current student or recent Ph.D. (received 1991 or later). Please
indicate your current status and year of Ph.D. with your abstract if
you qualify.
-- CLS-XXXII: The Chicago Linguistic Society announces its 32nd annual
meeting to be held April 11-13, 1996. General session: We invite
original, unpublished work on any topic of general linguistic
interest. Parasession (April 12-13): Is linguistics an empirical
science? Theory and data are inextricably intertwined in all fields
of research. What counts as evidence, and what counts as
counterevidence? We invite original, unpublished work on the relative
roles of theory and data in linguistic argumentation. Please submit
ten copies of a one-page, 500-word, anonymous abstract for a 25-minute
paper (optionally, one page for data or references may be appended)
along with a 3x5 card with your name, affiliation, address, phone
number, e-mail, title of paper, and indication of whether the paper is
intended for the main session or parasession. If the main session,
please specify area. An individual may present at most one single and
one co-authored paper. Deadline for receipt of abstracts is January
31, 1996. Send abstracts to
Chicago Linguistic Society
1010 East 59th Street
Chicago IL 60637
312/702-8529
Abstracts sent by e-mail will not be considered. Information may be
obtained from cls@sapir.uchicago.edu
Persons with a disability who think they may require assistance,
please call Lisa McNair at 312/288-3556.
-- SCIL-VIII (New York University, April 19-21, 1996. Participants
may submit abstracts for 30-minute talks (20 minutes for presentation
and 10 minutes for questions) in all areas of theoretical linguistics
including historical linguistics and psucholinguistics. all material
must be received by January 5, 1996. Material should be organized as
follows: 6 copies of anonymous abstract (1 page in length with 2nd
page for data/refs), 3x5 index card with title of paper, author(s),
affiliation, phone and e-mail. All e-mail submissions to:
linguistics@nyu.edu
All other submissions to
SCIL Conference Committee
Department of Linguistics
New York University
719 Broadway 5th Fl.
New York NY 10003
212/998-7950
-- SS-XI: Sociolinguistics Symposium 11 at the University of Wales,
Cardiff. 5-7 September 1996. Title: 'Sociolinguistics: New
Interdisiplinarities.' Submissions by hard copy only (not e-mail).
Each submission should include FOUR copies of a cover sheet with (1)
author's name, address (including e-mail and/or fax, and phone number)
and affiliation; (2) title of paper; (3) category of submission
(paper, suggested workshop, poster); and an abstract of about 200
words, strictly limited to one typed double-spaced page, including a
list of up to five keywords. Send the four copies to
Jacqui Guendouzi
Organizing Committee, SS11
Centre for Language and Communication
University of Wales
Cardiff CF1 3XB
Wales, UK
Fax: 44 1222 874242
phone: 44 1222 874243
email: ss11@cardiff.ac.uk
The new deadline for submissions is end of February, 1996. SS11
welcomes submissions in any area of sociolinguistics. A limited
number of schalarships is available on a competitive basis, for
students who are making presentations at SS11. A scholarship will
cover registration and accomodation costs at the standard rates.
Applications to the organizing committee, with personal details of
your place and area of study, plus abstract, before April 1, 1996.
-/-\-/ AAVE HAPPENIN /-\-/-
The following is the program for the AAVE Happenin, a traditional
feature of Linguistics 73, African American Vernacular English. The
program features presentation of group research projects by
undergraduate students in the class. (Some of the titles may have
changed slightly.)
All sessions will be held in the Kimball Hall main lounge. You are
welcome to attend. Papers are fifteen minutes followed by ten minutes
of discussion and five minutes of evaluation.
--
Thu Nov 30: (6 papers)
1:00 Rooks et al "Experimental methods of using AAVE in schools"
1:30 Bernard et al "Sociohistorical conditions of formation of
Gullah and Jamaican Creole"
2:00 Chien et al "Southern dialects and AAVE"
2:30 Coffee Break
2:45: Aguilera et al "AAVE in the dialogue of realistic Black
movies"
3:15 Hedges et al "Retention of AAVE features in Non Black remakes
of Black songs"
3:45 Peterson et al "Elementary School children's reaction to
narratives in SE & AAVE"
Sat Dec 2: (5 papers)
2:00 Attinasi et al "Onter-community pressures to speak AAVE"
2:30 Bathe et al "Use of AAVE in playground games of Black
children"
3:00 Byers et al "Interpretation of the OJ Simpson Case: White vs
Black America"
3:30 Coffee Break
3:45 Haseman et al "AAVE in modern American cinema"
4:15 Sessoms et al " Variation in use of AAVE features on
Stanford's campus"
Tue Dec 5: (13 papers)
9:00 Evans et al "AAVE and the old Negro Spiritual"
9:30 Park et al "Showboating in professional sports"
10:00 Chang et al "Uncle Remus: An African American folk tale"
10:30 Coffee break
10:45 Wheeler et al "Racial bias in the job market, with respect to
AAVE"
11:15 Williamson et al "Regional stylistic rap differences"
11:45 Lande et al "Portrayal of AAVE in film"
12:15 Lunch Break
1:00 Stevenson et al "The AAVE of Denzel Washington and Samuel L
Jackson in the movies"
1:30 Wooten et al "The Madonna complex, and how it is played out in
AAVE"
2:00 McNamee et al "Attitudes in contemporary sports"
2:30 Coffee Break
2:45 Herrera et al "African American Spirituals, folklore and
poems"
3:15 Updegraff et al "AAVE in Black comedy"
3:45 Leckman et al "TBA"
-/-\-/ TRUE LINGUISTICS /-\-/-
RE: The origin of the word "nibble"
"Nibble" finds its probable source in the word "nib"--ME, fr. OE;
akin to ON "nef" BEAK".
This discovery made by a child interested in linguistics, ELIZABETH
JOY WOLFF born 09/21/85, she currently resides in Cornell, New
York and is the 10 year old daughter of John R. Wolff, Director of
Procurement-Smith Corona.
[Peter Adams]
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(REDUNDANCY NOTICE: For fuller listings of these and other jobs, don't
forget to check the Jobs binder in the Greenberg Room, and the file
'jobslist.txt' on the CSLI directory /user/linguistics.)
-- OSU: Senior Position in Computational Linguistics. The Ohio State
University Department of Linguistics announces a new position, pending
final approval, for a tenured Professor or Associate Professor,
beginning with the Autumn quarter of 1996. We are searching for a
computational linguist whose specialization is in computational
phonetics/phonology/morphology or discourse modelling, but all truly
outstanding applicants who complement existing strengths in the
department will be considered. The primary duties of this position
are: maintaining an active research program in computational
linguistics and playing a central role in the further development of
computational linguistics with regard to curriculum and research
facilities; teaching undergraduate- and graduate-level courses,
advising students, and directing graduate student research; and
performing service duties as required by the department, the College
of Humanities, and the University. The salary will be negotiable, but
commensurate with rank and credentials. The successful candidate will
have demonstrated excellence in research and teaching and will have a
strong commitment to building bridges among related areas of
investigation within the department and throughout the University.
The deadline for receipt of applications is Monday, February 5, 1996.
Applicants should send a curriculum vitae and a statement of research
interests to
Brian D. Joseph, Computational Linguistics Search
Department of Linguistics
The Ohio State University
222 Oxley Hall
1712 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH (USA) 43210-1298
Inquiries may be addressed to Brian Joseph by letter at the above
address, or via electronic mail at bjoseph@ling.ohio-state.edu, or by
phone at 614-292- 4981, or by FAX at 614-292-4273. The Ohio State
University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.
Qualified women, minorities, Vietnam-era Veterans, disabled veterans,
and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
-- UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: Assistant professor, tenure-track
position in linguistics, to teach sociolinguistics, courses in general
linguistics, and other specialized courses in linguistics as
appropriate. The English Department has an MA degree program in
English Language and Linguistics and a certification program for
teaching English as a Second Language. The candidate would also be a
member of the Interdepartmental Linguistics Program which administers
the undergraduate Linguistics major. Candidates are expected to hold
the Ph.D. in Linguistics with a proven research record in
sociolinguistics. The ability to teach effectively at both the
graduate and undergraduate levels and to direct student research is
essential. Special consideration will be given to candidates who could
help administer summer programs in English as a Second Language and
who have some experience with ESL (especially in the public schools).
Preliminary interviews will be held at the Linguistics Society of
America meeting at San Diego in January. Send letter, c.v. and dossier
(including up-to-date letters of recommendation) and self-addressed,
stamped envelope to
Linguistic Search Committee
English Dept
Hamilton Smith Hall
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03824
To assure consideration for interviews at the LSA, applications should
be postmarked by 12/15/95. UNH is an AA/ EEO employer.
-- SFU: Position in applied linguistics. Applications are being
accepted for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant or
associate professor, for appointment commencing September 1, 1996,
subject to final approval of funding. The successful candidate will
be expected to assume a leadership role of the University's new
computerized Language Laboratory, which is being developed to promote
innovative approaches to language learning in the University,
especially through developing facilities employing near instructional
technologies, and to foster ongoing research into second language
acquisition at the university level. Candidates should hold a Ph.D.
in an area relevant to second language acquisition and maintain an
active research program in educational technology as applied to
language instruction and learning, as well as have significant
experience in second language teaching. Applicants should be
thoroughly familiar with recent developments in
technologically-assisted language learning, and be prepared to direct
the development and implementation of learner-centered systems. Send
a letter of application, curriculum vitae, and sample publications by
January 31, 1995 to
Prof. R. Saunders, Chairman
Linguistics Department
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C. V5A 156
Phone: (604) 291-3554
fax: (604) 291-5659
E-mail: saunders@sfu.ca
Candidates should arrange for three letters of recommendation to be
sent to the Department by the deadline. In accordance with Canadian
Immigration requirements, this advertisement is directed to Canadian
citizens and permanent residents. SFU is committed to the principle of
employment equity, and offers equal employment opportunities to
qualified applicants.
(REDUNDANCY NOTICE: For fuller listings of these and other jobs, don't
forget to check the Jobs binder in the Greenberg Room, and the file
'jobslist.txt' on the CSLI directory /user/linguistics.)
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-- SHADES: Ms White, Ms Black, and Ms Grey are out for a stroll
together. One is dressed in white, one in black, and one in gray.
'Isn't it odd,' says Miss Grey, 'that our dresses match our
last names, but not one of us is wearing a dress that matches her own
name?'
'Who cares?' replied the lady in black.
Give the color of each lady's dress for this week's
insta-prize.
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