The 11th Annual Semantics Fest is happening today at 11am-5pm in the Greenberg Room. Go to it! Here’s a schedule of talks, which can also be accessed from the official website.
Our undergrad Kayla Carpenter not only has been accepted in to Berkeley’s graduate program in Linguistics, but she has received the Chancellor’s Fellowship for Graduate Study, the most prestigious fellowship available at Berkeley. Congratulations!
We’re delighted to announce that Dan Jurafsky‘s promotion to the rank of Professor has been approved by the Dean of Humanities & Sciences, the Provost, and the President. As Dan would say:
The Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto (MOT) Phonology Workshop at Carleton University this weekend will feature an invited talk from Paul Kiparsky on “Pros and cons of Stratal OT.” And alum Lev Blumenfeld (Carleton) will speak about “Meter as faithfulness.” And the other Stanford people presenting there are:
Ida Toivonen (Carleton University)
Inari Saami quantity and the separation of phonetics and phonology
Luc Baronian & Elena Kulinich (Université du Québec à Chicoutimi)
L’ailleurs est local / Elsewhere is local
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