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the SESQUIPEDALIAN Volume VI, No. 21
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Schmeckfest April 11, 1996
MAY I TAKE YOUR ORDER?
This just in from our correspondent in the south:
Quoted directly from the center for strategic and international
studies' report on global organized crime: the author who introduces
the story swears it's true.
FBI agents conducted a raid of a psychiatric hospital in San Diego that
was under investigation for medical insurance fraud. After hours of
reviewing thousands of medical records, the dozens of agents had worked
up quite an appetite. The agent in charge of the investigation called
a nearby pizza parlor with delivery service to order a quick dinner for
his colleagues. The following telephone conversation took place and
was recorded by the FBI because they were taping all conversations at
the hospital.
Agent: Hello. I would like to order 19 large pizzas and 67 cans of
soda.
Pizza man: And where would you like them delivered?
Agent: We're over at the psychiatric hospital.
Pizza man: The psychiatric hospital?
Agent: That's right. I'm an FBI agent.
Pizza man: You're an FBI agent?
Agent: That's correct. Just about everybody here is.
Pizza man: And you're at the psychiatric hospital?
Agent: That's correct. And make sure you don't go through the front
doors. We have them locked. You will have to go around to the back to
the service entrance to deliver the pizzas.
Pizza man: And you say you're all FBI agents?
Agent: That's right. How soon can you have them here?
Pizza man: And everyone at the psychiatric hospital is an FBI agent?
Agent: That's right. We've been here all day and we're starving.
Pizza man: How are you going to pay for all of this?
Agent: I have my checkbook right here.
Pizza man: And you're all FBI agents?
Agent: That's right. Everyone here is an FBI agent. Can you remember
to bring the pizzas and sodas to the service entrance in the rear? We
have the front doors locked.
Pizza man: I don't think so.
CLICK.
-\-/-\ LOOK WHO'S TALKING \-/-\-
-- On April 15, there will be a mini-symposium at Berkeley on
'Phonetics and Historical Linguistics.' The program includes:
Juliette Blevins: 'Phonetic Factors in Initial Consonant Loss in
Australian Aboriginal Languages'
Andrew Garrett: 'Reconstructing Phonetics'
Mike McDaid (incoming Stanford 1996!): 'Acoustics of Contemporary
Mandarin Phonemic Merger'
-- Even as you read this, Vivienne Fong and Christine Poulin are at
the Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language II Meeting at SUNY
Buffalo, presenting 'Locating linguistic variation in semantic
templates.' Vivienne is also due to deliver 'Place and time as
semantic primitives for directional locatives' at the same conference.
-\-/-\ LOOK WHO'S HERE \-/-\-
The Linguistics Department welcomes two new visitors this quarter:
KOZO KATO is an associate professor of English Linguistics at Shinshu
University, Japan. He is spending a six-month sabbatical at Stanford
to continue his work on Old English syntax/English Diachronic syntax
from the generative point of view, in preparation for his dissertation
to be submitted to the University of Amsterdam.
BARBARA STIEBELS comes to us from the Department of General
Linguistics at the Seminar fuer Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft,
Heinrich-Heine Universitaet Duesseldorf. She is working on a research
project on the categorical status of nouns and verbs with respect to
their derivation.
Please keep an eye out for these two distinguished visitors and join
us in welcoming them to the department.
-\-/-\ LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM \-/-\-
No colloquium this week. However, we can offer you this...
-----
Magical Costa Rican Mints
-A Monologue About Adolescence-
Written and Performed by the Linguistics Department's Very Own
Rudolph Delson
This Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, April 11, 12, and 13 at 8pm
Eleanor Prosser Studio (Upstairs Behind Mem Aud)
General $5, Students $2
The monologue takes a humorous look at my adolescence in glorious San
Jose, CA, from the story of how Jake Black came to wrestle "Tanker" in
6th grade, to how I managed to get elected Prom King. The monologue
also features memories of my linguistic endeavors, including my 1979
meeting with Chomsky when I suggested ways in which he might expand
his forthcoming treatment of Binding to deal with Government as well,
and how it was that Burzio's name wound up on my generalization.
-----
For a list of upcoming colloquia, see
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/~kessler/colloq/
PS. Yes, this is serious.
-\-/-\ SEMANTICS WORKSHOP \-/-\-
Time: (NB!) Monday, April 15, 1.15 - 3 p.m.
Place: Cordura 100, CSLI
A Situation Semantic Account of Existential Sentences
-- Dissertation Proposal --
Yookyung Kim
How does the meaning of an existential sentence differ from that of
the corresponding subject-predicate sentence? I propose that
existential statements present a situation, and I analyze them in
Situation Semantics as expressing Austinian propositions, thereby
capturing their theticity and their presentative function.
Subject-predicate statements, by contrast, are categorical;
accordingly I analyze them as expressing Russellian propositions about
their topic.
I will show that the proposed meanings, by incorporating this
difference in information articulation, account for the fact that
indefinite subjects can constitute the restriction of an adverb of
quantification, but post-copular NPs of existential sentences cannot,
as (1) illustrates.
(1) a. There are usually pigeons twittering in a basket.
`#Most pigeons are twittering in a basket.'
b. Sales usually suffer in hot weather.
`Most sales suffer in hot weather.'
The difference in meaning also explains why the same cardinal
quantifier admits of different readings in (2).
(2) a. There were 26 bumble-bees busily feeding.
(existential reading only)
b. 26 bumble-bees were busily feeding.
(partitive and existential readings both possible)
Furthermore, I will derive the Predicate Restriction of existential
sentences from the proposed semantic analysis.
(3) There is a fireman available/*altruistic.
"Stage-level" properties hold of individuals in limited perspectival
situations which arise out of the interaction between agents and their
environments. Accordingly they are situated and presentable by highly
situated activities like utterances of existential statements. In
contrast, the non-situatedness of "individual-level" properties fails
to make available any presentable situation; hence they do not satisfy
the requirements imposed by the meaning of existential sentences.
-\-/-\ CHILD LANGUAGE RESEARCH FORUM \-/-\-
The Child Language Research Forum takes place this weekend, April
12-14, at Stanford in Cordura Hall. Schedule attached:
Friday, April 12:
7.00-7.30 pm Registration
7.30 pm Introductory Remarks: Eve V. Clark
7.40 pm Workshop: "Perspectives on an emerging language:
creolization and critical periods"
Organizers: Judy A. Kegl (Rutgers University) and John McWhorter
(UC Berkeley)
9.45 pm Reception, Cordura Hall lobby, CSLI
Saturday, April 13:
8.30 am - Registration
9.00-10.30 am PAPER SESSION - Chair: Helen Shwe
9.00 am Elise Frank Masur (Northern Illinois University)
Maternal labeling practices and infants' lexical constraints
9.30 am William E. Merriman & Colleen M. Stevenson (Kent
State University) A reconsideration of the mutual
exclusivity bias in young 2-year-olds
10.00 am Gedeon Deak (Vanderbilt University) & Michael Maratsos
(University of Minnesota) Preschoolers produce multiple words
for unfamiliar objects
10.30-11.00 am Coffee Break
11.00-12.00 pm PAPER SESSION - Chair: Jennifer Rothblatt
11.00 am Richard F. S. Hung (University of Hawaii) The role of
prosody in the acquisition of grammatical morphemes
11.30 am Allyson K. Carter & LouAnn Gerken (University of
Arizona) Functors in early on-line sentence comprehension
12.00-1.30 pm Lunch Break
1.30-3.00 pm PAPER SESSION - Chair: Lauren Shapiro
1.30 pm Werner Deutsch, Angela Wagner, Renate Burchardt, Karen
Jahn, & Nina Schulz (Technische Universitaet Braunschweig) From
Adam('s) and Eve('s) to mine and yours in singletons and siblings
2.00 pm Kei Nakamura (University of California, Berkeley)
Gender-based differences in the language of preschool children
2.30 pm Hrafnhildur Ragnarsdottir (University College of Educa-
tion, Reykjarvik), Hanne Gram Simonsen (University of Oslo), &
Kim Plunkett (University of Oxford) The acquisition of past
tense inflection in Icelandic and Norwegian children
3.00 - 3.30 pm Break
3.30 - 4.30 pm PAPER SESSION - Chair: Jennifer Arnold
3.30 pm Hulya Ozcan (Anadolu University, Eskisehir) Pronominali-
zation in the narratives of Turkish-speaking children
4.00 pm Norma Jean Gomme & Carolyn Johnson (University of Brit-
ish Columbia) Pronominal reference in 3-year-olds' narratives
4.30-6.00 pm POSTER SESSION
Sunday, April 14:
8.30 am - Registration
9.00-10.30 am PAPER SESSION - Chair: Maria-Eugenia Nino
9.00 am Penelope Brown (MPI for Psycholinguistics) Isolating
the CVC root in Tzeltal Mayan: a study of children's first verbs
9.30 am Lourdes de Leon (Reed College) The acquisition of vert-
ical path in Tzotzil (Mayan): Language-specific vs cognitive
determinants
10.00 am David P. Wilkins (MPI for Psycholinguistics) The ver-
balisation of motion events in Arrernte (Central Australia)
10.30-11.30 am Coffee Break
11.00-12.30 pm PAPER SESSION - Chair: Rachel Nordlinger
11.00 am Letitia Naigles (Yale University) English-speaking
one-year-olds are verb learners too
11.30 pm Masami Nomura (Daito Bunka University) & Yasuhiro
Shirai (Carnegie Mellon University) Over-extension of intransi-
tive verbs in the acquisition of Japanese
12.00 am Sven Stromqvist (University of Gothenburg) and
Hrafnhildur Ragnarsdottir (University College of Education,
Reykjarvik) The linguistic encoding of spatial relations in
Scandinavian child language development
-\-/-\ FELLOWSHIPS/ASSISTANTSHIPS \-/-\-
-- 1996-97 GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER: Applications
are now available for Pre-Doctoral and Dissertation Resident
Fellowships at the Humanities Center for 1996-97. Pre-Doctoral
Fellowships are for those students who are in their 3rd or 4th year of
graduate work and have completed their formal course work.
Dissertation Resident Fellowships are for students who are writing
their theses and can bring support from other granting agencies or who
have outside support for their writing year. Applicants need not
belong to humanities departments as traditionally defined, but their
research should be concerned with questions of value and employ
cultural, historical, linguistic, literary, or philosophical
approaches. The Humanities Center provides a supplement of $1,250 to
the student's current sources of financial support for
research-related expenses. Fellows must be in residence at the Center
during the fellowship year. Applications may be picked up in your
department or at the Humanities Center. The deadline to apply is
Wednesday, May 15th. For further information, contact Susan Sebbard
by e-mail or by phone at 723-3053.
-- THE MICHELLE ZIMBALIST ROSALDO AND FRANCISCO LOPES PRIZES IN
FEMINIST STUDIES: The Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo and Francisco Lopes
Prizes are awarded annually by the Feminist Studies Program for the
best essays on women (or a woman), gender, or feminism written by any
undergraduate, or co-terminal B.A./M.A. student currently enrolled at
Stanford. The awards are given in two divisions: The Honors Thesis
Division (including master's essays), and the Essay Division. Each
prize carries a cash award of $250. The Rosaldo Prizes are awarded to
one honors thesis and one essay in the social sciences, and the Lopes
Prizes are awarded to one honors thesis and one essay in the
humanities. The prizes are conferred by the Feminist Studies program
at the annual end of the year party on Thursday, May 30, 1996. These
prizes honor the memories of two faculty members who contributed to
the growth of the Feminist Studies Program.
Procedures for Submissions:
* DEADLINES: ESSAYS - APRIL 17 by 4:00 p.m.
THESES - MAY 17 by 4:00 p.m.
Entries may sent or delivered to the Feminist Studies Program (Serra
House, 8640) accompanied by an entry application (available in the
Feminist Studies office). LATE SUBMISSIONS CANNOT BE ACCEPTED.
Essays may be nominated by faculty members or submitted by students
Winners of the Essay prizes are eligible to compete for the Thesis
prize in a subsequent year, but students cannot compete for both
prizes in the same year. Essays should be typed or machine-printed,
free of errors, corrections, or comments. THREE copies must be
submitted. Your name should not appear within the paper except on the
title page. For further questions, please contact Cathy Jensen in the
Feminist Studies program office at 3-2412.
-- DEDICATED RESEARCH ASSISTANTS NEEDED for a project on human
"multi-media" communication. This could be a great opportunity for
students interested in educationally-productive conversations,
semantics & pragmatics, psycholinguistics, or multi-media systems.
Our research is about the naturally-occuring "multi-media"
communication people produce when they are asked to explain how
something works. In our specific study, we videotaped Stanford
students as they explained how common door locks work to a fellow
student who didn't know how they work. Besides speech, these
explanations are filled with diagram-drawing, demonstrations made with
a sample lock, and hand gestures separate from and superimposed over
the lock and diagrams. The goal of the research is to develop
hypotheses to explain why some of these multi-modal explanations were
easy for learners to understand while others were not. In particular,
we are interested in what allows learners to construct plausible
models of how locks work from these explanations. RESEARCH
ASSISTANT'S ROLE: Your role in the project would be to serve as one of
the raters who describes what specific models of the lock can be
constructed from different segments of each explanation. You will do
this with the help of a computer program we've developed called
Model_Maker, which guides raters through the construction of models.
After raters have constructed models individually, pairs of raters
discuss & resolve open issues and discrepencies, justifying their
final decisions. STRONG CANDIDATES MAY HAVE ONE (OR MORE) OF THE
FOLLOWING SKILLS OR EXPERIENCE: - Knowledge of: cognitive psychology
(esp. work on mental models); semantics & pragmatics;
psycholinguistics; or multimedia technology. - Experience doing
careful, detailed analytical work. - Experience working effectively
as part of a team. - Skill in being aware of your thinking/reasoning
& communicating it clearly to others. - Strong C programming and
debugging skills on the Mac. HOWEVER, please do not hesitate to apply
even if you have none of these qualifications but are interested in
the project & willing to learn! PAY RATE: $10/hr. For those who
prefer, course credit can be provided instead. TIME COMMITMENT: 7-10
hours each week. 15 hr/week positions may be available to students
with small course loads. Depending on the number of people who apply,
there also may be opportunities for continued work on the project this
summer. IF INTERESTED: Please email Randi Engle (randi@csli).
Briefly tell me about yourself and why you're interested in the
RAship. For the best shot at these positions, please contact me by
Wednesday. Please be sure to include a phone number where I can reach
you.
-\-/-\ CALL FOR PAPERS \-/-\-
-- The 21st Annual BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE
DEVELOPMENT: November 1, 2, and 3, 1996. Keynote Speaker: EVE CLARK,
Stanford University. All topics in the field of language acquisition
will be fully considered, including:
Bilingualism Literacy
Cognition & Language Narrative
Creoles & Pidgins Neurolinguistics
Discourse Pragmatics
Exceptional Language Pre-linguistic Development
Input & Interaction Signed Languages
Language Disorders Sociolinguistics
Lexicon Speech Perception & Production
Linguistic Theory (Syntax, Semantics, Phonology, Morphology)
Abstracts submitted must represent original, unpublished research.
Presentations will be 20 minutes long, plus 10 minutes for questions.
Please submit: 1) six copies of an anonymous, clearly titled 450-word
summary for review; 2) one copy of a 150-word abstract for use in
conference program book if abstract is accepted; (if your paper is
accepted, you will be asked to resubmit your 150-word abstract in
electronic form, either on diskette or by e-mail. Requests for these
program abstracts will be sent with acceptance letters.); 3) one 3 x 5
card stating: i) title, ii) topic area, iii) audiovisual requests, and
iv) for EACH author:
a) Full name & affiliation d) Summer address & phone
b) Current address & phone e) Summer e-mail address
c) E-mail address f) Fax number
g) please tell us how you received this call (paper
copy or e-mail) and whether you would be willing to receive future
calls for papers by e-mail only; 4) To accomodate as many papers as
possible, we have begun the practice of selecting alternates to fill
in slots created by cancellations. The status of alternate is
inconvenient for some contributors, but welcomed by others. Please
indicate whether, if your paper is not one of the 90 initially selectd
for presentation, you would be willing to be considered as an
alternate. (If you indicate that you are willing to be considered,
this does not commit you to accepting alternate status if it should be
offered to you.) Please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard
for acknowledgment of receipt. Notification of acceptance or
rejection will be sent by late July. Pre-registration materials and
preliminary schedule will be available in late August 1996. All
authors who present papers at the conference will be invited to
contribute their papers to the Proceedings Volumes. Those papers will
be due in January, 1997. All conference papers will be selected on
the basis of abstracts submitted. Although each abstract will be
evaluated individually, we will attempt to honor requests to schedule
accepted papers together in group sessions.
Submissions must be received by May 10, 1995. Send submissions to:
Boston University
Conference on Language Development
2 Cummington Street
Boston, MA 02215 U.S.A.
Telephone: 617-353-3085
E-mail: langconf@louis-xiv.bu.edu
info@louis-xiv.bu.edu (automated reply)
(WE REGRET THAT WE CANNOT ACCEPT ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS BY FAX OR E-MAIL.)
-- FORMAL GRAMMAR: August 10-11, 1996, in conjunction with the
European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (Prague,
Czech Republic). In 1996 the Eighth European Summer School in Logic,
Language and Information (ESSLLI VIII) is to be held in Prague, August
12-23. The ESSLLI Summer Schools have become a forum for work on
formal grammar, encompassing the overlapping interests of work in
formal linguistics, computational linguistics, and the role of logic
in grammar formalisms. As at ESSLLI VII last year in Barcelona, the
programme this year includes a conference on Formal Grammar to be held
the weekend before the Summer School, which will provide a forum for
contemporary research in this domain. Themes of interest include
formal and computational phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and
pragmatics; logical methods in linguistics; and foundational,
methodological and architectural issues in grammar. We invite e-mail
submissions of abstracts for 30-minute papers (including questions and
comments) addressing these themes. Abstracts should be sent to
fgesslli@ufal.mff.cuni.cz
An abstract should contain the author's name, affiliation, e-mail
address and postal address in the initial lines; the body of the
abstract should consist of an ASCII or Postscript file of a document
of not more than 800 words. To facilitate anonymous review, the
initial lines containing information concerning the author should be
easily removable. The deadline for submissions is April 30,
1996. Notification of acceptance will be by the end of May. Final
versions of papers are to be received by 7th July for inclusion in a
proceedings to be distributed at the time of the Summer School.
Address for correspondence: <fgesslli@ufal.mff.cuni.cz>.
-- SECOND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS (IWCS II)
January 8-10, 1997, Tilburg, The Netherlands. The Tilburg Linguistics
Department will host the Second Workshop on Computational Semantics,
which will take place in Tilburg, The Netherlands, from 8 - 10 January
1997. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers
involved in all aspects of natural language computational semantics.
The workshop will focus on the computational aspects of formal
semantic theories and on theoretical issues involved in the
development of natural language processing systems. Papers are sought
in areas which include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
* underspecified semantic representations: definition and use
* use of context in interpretation
* the semantics - pragmatics interface
* dynamic interpretation in text and dialogue
* incremental interpretation
* language and visual information
* speech acts and interpretation
* information packaging
* computational lexical semantics
* context modelling
* interpretation and inference
All submitted papers will be refereed by an international programme
committee. Authors are asked to submit an original paper of maximally
10 pages and maximally 8000 words by Sunday September 1, 1996. Email a
postscript version of the paper to Computational.Semantics@kub.nl
Papers should be prepared with LaTeX. Each title page should contain
the names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of all
authors. Please use the LaTeX header file which is attached to this
Call. LaTeX source codes of final papers are due on November 15,
1996. A copy of the proceedings will be available for each participant
at the workshop.
-\-/-\ TRUE LINGUISTICS \-/-\-
A linguistics professor was lecturing to his class one day about the
fact that in many languages, such as English, a double negative forms a
positive, while in other languages, such as Russian, a double negative
is still a negative. "However," he pointed out, "in no language can a
double positive form a negative."
A bored voice from the back of the room responded, "Yeah, yeah...."
[Submitted by Peter Donohue (blame him!)
-\-/-\ JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS \-/-\-
(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.)
-- THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY: Associate Professor/Assistant
Professor in English, with a specialism in two (or more) of the
following: phonetics and phonology (including the teaching of English
pronunciation); semantics; discourse and pragmatics; grammatical
analysis; research methods (incuding statistics); CALL and/or
multimedia in ELT; English and Englishes; EAP/ESP materials
development. Duties: The appointee will be required to teach on the
Department's "service" English-language programmes (for students in
other departments) and on its own undergraduate and postgraduate
courses. Depending on the extent of each appointee's experience,
he/she may also be expected to play a team-leadership role in specific
areas of teaching. All appointees will be expected to undertake
research and/or other scholarly activities. Appointees at Associate
Professor level will additionally be expected to share in the
management of the Deaprtment's affairs. Candidates are expected to
have:
a) a higher degree (at least a Master's or equivalent) in a
relevant field ;
b) as language teaching qualification;
[note: a) and b) may be combined in a single qualification, e.g.
MA/MEdin ELT/Applied Linguistics]
c) at least three years' full-time (or equivalent part-time) experience
of teaching English as a second/foreign language at senior-secondary,
tertiary or adult level.
Candidates for appointment at Associate Professor level should have, in
addition to the above:
d) substantial experience, in a tertiary-education context, of
managing/leading a team of other staff;
e) a record of research and publication.
In all cases, possession of a doctoral degree in a relevant field
will be an advantage. Conditions of Service: Initial appointment will
be made on a fixed-term gratuity-bearing contract or normally three
years, but two years is a possibility. Re-engagement thereafter is
subject to mutual agreement. Other benefits include leave, medical
and dental schemes, children's local education allowance, and
subsidized housing for appointees on a salary of 40380 HK
dollars/month or above. Note: Candidates for an Associate Professor
post should state in their application whether or not, if that
application is unsuccessful, they would wish instead to be considered
for an Assistant Professor post. As the deadline has officially
passed for these positions, please indicate your interest as soon as
possible to Jane Setter at the following e-mail address, and details
will be forwarded as to how to apply: egjanes@polyu.edu.hk
-- UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER: Postdoctoral research assistant.
Prof. Iain A. Stewart, Head of Computing in the Department of
Mathematics and Computer Science, has recently been awarded funding
from the UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
to employ a Postdoctoral Research Assistant for a period of three
years to work on a research project "Complexity Theory from Logic".
The broad aims of the project are to further develop and extend links
between computer science, mathematics and logic, and in particular to
investigate descriptive complexity within the framework of finite
model theory. Suitably qualified researchers, who have a PhD in
logic, mathematics or theoretical computer science (or are on the
point of been awarded one), are in the first instance invited to
contact Prof. Stewart for further information - e-mail:
i.a.stewart@mcs.le.ac.uk or i.a.stewart@swansea.ac.uk. The start date
is flexible but an ideal date would be October 1996. A further
announcement will be made when full details of how to apply become
available.
-- UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA: The Department of Linguistics invites
applications for 3 positions as eight-month Visiting Assistant
Professors in Linguistics. The ideal candidates would have
specializations in one or more core areas of linguistics (phonetics,
phonology, syntax, semantics), active research programs and previous
teaching experience. Outstanding applicants with specializations in
other areas (such as psycholinguistics and child language acquisition)
will also be considered. These 8-month positions will involve
teaching at both the graduate and undergraduate levels and may be
re-newable for 97-98 pending budget approval. The current eight-month
salary at the University of Alberta is $25,000 Cdn plus travel
expenses. In accordance with Canadian Immigration requirements, this
advertisement is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent
residents. The University of Alberta is committed to the principle of
equity in employment. As an employer we welcome diversity in the
workplace and encourage applications from all qualified women and men,
including Aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities, and members
of visible minorities. A letter of application, curriculum vitae, and
the names and addresses of three referees should be sent by May 20 to
Gary Libben, Chair
Department of Linguistics
4-36 Assiniboia Hall
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
T6G 2E7
e-mail: glibben@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca
Tel: (403) 492-3459
Fax: (403) 492-0806
-- OPIE: The Ohio Program of Intensive English at Ohio University
announces a position opening reserved for those who receive their MAs
in ESL this year. Requirements: MA in Linguistics/ESL earned or to be
earned in 1996. The purpose of this internship is to make a position
available to those who have just received their masters and need an
opportunity to gain experience. At least one year of supervised
classroom teaching experience at the institution granting the degree
is required. Interns must be able to handle full time teaching
responsibilities without supervision or guidance. The most common
teaching load is either one three-hour core class or one two-hour and
one single hour class. One but not both of the assignments normally
involve composition. all classes meet four days a week. Teachers'
requests for specific assignments are encouraged. Length of contract
is twelve months with second year optional provided performance has
been satisfactory. Possible third year with an OPIE program overseas
or on a special project within the OPIE. Application deadline: May 1,
1996. To apply, send cover letter, resume, three letters of
recommendation and University transcripts to
Charles Mickelson
Intern Search
201 Gordy Hall
Ohio University
Athens OH 45701
(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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