TODAY at 12:15 in the Greenberg Room, Jonah Katz will be giving a talk entitled “Rhyme Patterns Reiterate Phonological Typology” (abstract below) for the Phonetics and Phonology Workshop.
On Monday at noon in Jordan 102, Middy Tice will give a talk for the Langcog Lab meeting about conversational turn-taking.
There will be Sociolunches! Come to ORGCHEM 103 from 12-1 on Thursdays to join.
On Thursday at 3 in Cordura 100, Andrew Maas will be giving a talk entitled “Learning Word Representations for Semantics and Sentiment” (abstract below) as part of CSLI’s Cognition and Language Workshop.
Also on Thursday, but at 4:15, Dan Yurovsky (Mike Frank’s new postdoc) will give a talk, room and title TBA.
Jona Katz (Berkeley), “Rhyme Patterns Reiterate Phonological Typology”
This talk presents a large corpus of English hip-hop rhymes. Imperfect-rhyme data from the corpus support the hypothesis that speakers possess detailed auditory/perceptual knowledge about their language and that they manipulate rhymes in ways that reflect this knowledge. Read the rest of this entry »
Congrats to all of the following people for their awards and achievments!
Eve Clark is now the president of the International Association for the Study of Child Language, and they published this interview with her.
Joan Bresnan was elected a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society this summer.
Isla Flores-Bayer was chosen (again!) to be a Graduate Scholar in Residence for 2012-2013 by El Centro Chicano.
Congrats again to our recent PhD recipients: Uriel Cohen-Priva, Olga Dmitrieva, Scott Grimm, and Tyler Schnoebelen.
Meghan Sumner was awarded a three-year NSF grant entitled “Understanding the perception and recognition of spoken words: Effects of phonetics, phonological variation and speech mode.”
Alumnus John Beavers got married in Austin Texas to SymSys Alum Janice Ta! Several Stanford people made the trek to his wedding, and the Sesquiphotographer caught up with them:
Uriel Cohen-Priva, recent PhD grad from Stanford and new Assistant Professor at Brown, received a nice write-up from Brown University.
Ed King wrote an article about the Voices of California project, which appeared first in the Stanford Report, then in the Palo Alto Patch. He also starred in this video clip from Bakersfield local news.
Stanford Linguists were present and active at a huge number of conferences and talks this summer. Here are some of them:
James Collins gave a talk on September 26 at the Berkeley Syntax Circle.
At the Sociolinguistics Symposium in Berlin in August, there was a pack of Stanford folks. Here is photo evidence!
Paul Kiparsky was traveling and speaking all over, including a colloquium at MIT, a South Asian Linguistics conference at Yale (where alums John Beavers, Ashwini Deo, and Miriam Butt also spoke), and the American International Morphology Meeting at UMass.
Tom Wasow was at AMLaP in Italy, where he chaired a series of talks.
Kyuwon Moon and Rob Podesva gave talks at NWAV Asia-Pacific in Tokyo.
Chigusa Kurumada gave a colloquium at Rochester in September.
The 15th SemDial conference in Paris was a big hit for Stanford folks. Eve Clark was a plenary speaker and Middy Tice and Mike Frank gave presentations along with alumni Brady Clark and Stefan Kaufmann. Alum Jonathan Ginzburg organized the meeting, and Stanley Peters gave a talk at a related workshop.
Sam Bowman had a paper accepted for the NAACL-HLT in Montreal in June.
Here are a few interesting articles from over the summer:
An article in the New York Times from July discusses evidence supporting Greenberg’s colonization theory.
Dan Jurafsky was mentioned in this article in the Stanford News from July.
H. Samy Alim (w Smitherman) wrote an opinion piece in the NY Times from September on the language of Obama.
Chris Manning got mentioned in this special piece (in orange) from the September/October issue of the Stanford Magazine.
From Meghan Sumner:
With many new faces around the department, and names to go with those faces, Meghan’s Mystery Name Game is back! Each week, I will produce the name of a member of our department. I have produced this week’s name casually (first word) and carefully (second word). Read the spectrogram to figure out the mystery name and win a prize! To be fair, there is no limit to the number of times you can be the first one to guess correctly, but there is a limit of one prize per person. All you need to do is be the first person to find me in person and tell me the correct name (or the first person who has not yet won a prize). Good Luck!
