[Prev][Next][Index][Thread]
Sesquipedalian #25
the SESQUIPEDALIAN Volume VII, No. 25
\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/
Siege of Troy ends April 24, 1997
-/-\-/ LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM /-\-/-
------------------
No Linguistics Colloquium this week.
For directions and a complete list of colloquia, see
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/Linguistics/colloq/colloq.html
-/-\-/ SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM /-\-/-
Karen Emmorey of the Salk Institute will be giving a talk on recent
research at CSLI, Cordura 100, Thursday, April 24 at 4:15.
NOTE LOCATION: This talk is a CSLI workshop which counts as this
week's Symbolic Systems Forum.
The confluence of space and language in American Sign Language
American Sign Language (ASL) uses space itself to encode locational and
geometric information in an isomorphic fashion. For most locative
expressions in ASL, there is a direct correspondence between the location
of the hands in signing space and the position of physical objects in the
real world. I will present several studies which explore the ramifications
of this spatialized encoding. Specifically, I will discuss the mental
rotation processes that signers often require of their addressees and how
such language processing can impact nonlinguistic visual-spatial processes.
I will also discuss differences between English and ASL with respect to how
perspective is chosen for spatial discourse. English speakers and ASL
signers have very different linguistic options available to them for
expressing spatial perspective. These differences arise from the
spatialized nature of ASL, i.e., the fact that signing space itself is used
to directly represent spatial relations.
-/-\-/ CHILD LANGUAGE RESEARCH FORUM /-\-/-
The 29th Annual Child Language Research Forum takes place this
weekend, 25-27 April, at Stanford in Cordura Hall. A complete
schedule is available at
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~clrf/schedule97.html
-\-/-\ CALL FOR PAPERS \-/-\-
-- NELS-28: Conference of the North Eastern Linguistics Society,
University of Toronto, Oct. 24-26, 1997. Abstracts are invited for
20-minute papers on any aspect of theoretical linguistics. Abstracts
should be anonymous and typed single-spaced in 12-point font on no
more than one 8x11 page with one-inch margins. References, but no
examples, may be included on a second page. For the sake of the
reviewers, the guidelines will be strictly enforced. At most one
individual and one joint abstract per person will be considered.
Deadline for submission: July 9, 1997. Submissions should include 10
anonymous copies of the abstract, one copy stating the name of the
author(s) and affiliation(s), for inclusion in the NELS booklet (if
accepted), a typed 3x5 card bearing the title of the paper and the
authors' names, affiliations, phone numbers, snail and e-mail
addresses. Please indicate whether you would like e-mail
acknowledgement of receipt. Abstracts received after the deadline
will not be considered. We accept no fax or e-mail submissions.
Accepted presenters will be notified in late August. Please send
abstract submissions to
Abstract Committee/NELS 28
Department of Linguistics
University of Toronto
130 St George Street
Toronto ON M5S 3H1
CANADA
More information: mailto:nels@chass.utoronto.ca
http://www.utoronto.ca:8080/~nels/nels.html
-\-/-\ 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.)
-- HARVARD: Harvard One-year Lectureship. The Department of Linguists
at Harvard University announces a one-year nontenured position,
Lecturer on Linguistics, effective September 1, 1997. The teaching
load of four undergraduate courses includes one course in field
methods and another in semantics. Applications from specialists in
such areas as morphology, semantics, language acquisition, and
sociolinguistics are particularly welcome. Three letters of
recommendation required. Applicants should each forward a detailed
_curriculum vitae_, including a complete bibliography to
Prof. Michael S. Flier, Chairman
Linguistics Search Committee
Department of Linguistics
Harvard University
77 Dunster Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
The deadline for receipt of applications and all supporting materials
is May 15, 1997.
Harvard University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.
Qualified women and minority candidates are especially encouraged to
apply.
-- TRANSCRIBER NEEDED: Entropic Research Laboratory is the foremost
provider of UNIX software tools and development environments for
speech synthesis, analysis, recognition and coding. We are looking
for reliable and precision-minded students to transcribe recorded
English conversations between two native Spanish speakers. Knowledge
of Spanish, UNIX a plus. Must be able to work independently. Pay
range is $10-$15/hour, depending on experience. This is a half-time
position (15-20 hours per week). ERL is located minutes from campus in
beautiful Menlo Park.
Please email knodt@ca.entropic.com if you are interested.
-- SUMMER JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: Assistant for the Working with Computers
Class ($10/ hour, about 8 hours per week). The English for Foreign
Students Program in the Dept. of Linguistics has an intensive summer
program for foreign graduate students every summer, and one of the
elective classes is "Working with Computers", which is basically how
to use the Mac for grad students. It's a fun class because the
students are incredibly anxious to learn how to use computers, so it's
really gratifying. Each of the two sections meets once a week, for
two hours on Wed. afternoon. Each class consists of me giving short
explanations, and then the students try the exercises. During this
period they need LOTS of help, so that's why we need an assistant, to
help go around and give individual help. There's a list of specific
details below. Qualifications -- the more you know about Mac /
Internet usage, the better (see the topics listed below). Good
communication skills are also necessary, teaching experience would be
a plus. Unlike the other EFS positions, though, you don't need to be
a native speaker of Engish.
If you're interested, come talk to me or send me an email.
Jennifer Arnold
arnold@turing.stanford.edu
408-429-9135
Margaret Jacks, room 142 (I'm not there very often, though, so send me an
email before coming)
JOB INFORMATION:
Pay: $10 per hour
Time commitment: about 8 hours a week, from July 7-Aug. 15, plus one day
of student orientation on July 3.
What the job entails:
1. coming to the class WEd. from 1-5 and helping field questions and give
individual help to students
2. before class, going over exercises to get familiar with them
3. once a week, at a time that's convenient for you and the students, hold
a section, which basically means going to the computer lab and being there
to answer questions (no prep necessary)
4. helping out with the orientation on July 3
What we cover in the class:
* MS Word (basic stuff plus graphics, tables, headers/footers,page breaks,
section breaks, frames)
* MS Excel 4.0 (databases, charts, functions, etc.)
* email by Eudora and pine
* intro Unix for the intermediate section
* web page construction workshop on last day
(for more info, see the class homepage at
http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~pollo)
(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.)
-\-/-\ INSTA-PRIZE \-/-\-
-- WORD JUMBLE: Follow the letters up, down, left, right or diagonally
to reveal this week's hidden quote and win the insta-prize.
L A D K
G K N A R S
O O A S A W
D N A H I U
T E T S T O
A K E H H Y
(Hint: Quote starts with a letter that only appears once.)
/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\
-\-/-\ CONSERVE DISK SPACE \-/-\-
So you may delete your copy after you've read it (or better yet,
before you've read it), the Sesquipedalian Weekly Herald is stored
online at Stanford (in directory /user/linguistics/Sesquip/), and at
Berkeley (in the directory /usr/pub.), or on the Linguistics
Department home page (http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/). The most
current issue of the Herald can be found by typing 'help quip'.
Neither Stanford University nor the Linguistics Department, nor any of
their employees, makes any warranty, whatsoever, implied, or assumes
any legal liability or responsibility regarding any information,
disclosed, in this publication, or represents that its use would not
infringe privately owned rights. No specific reference constitutes or
implies endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by Stanford
University or the Linguistics Department, or their employees. Any
similarity to actual linguists, living or dead, is purely
coincidental. The views and opinions expressed herein do not
necessarily reflect those of Stanford University or the Linguistics
Department, or their employees, and shall not be used for advertising
or product endorsement purposes. No user-serviceable parts inside.
WARNING: Contains a substantial amount of non-tobacco products. It is
a violation of federal law to use this product in a manner
inconsistent with its labelling.
All rights revoked
\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/