Join us today (Friday 3/20) for the last P-interest talk of the quarter, where Florian Lionnet (UC Berkeley) will be giving a talk entitled “Laal rounding harmony: the case for subfeatural representations in phonology”. The talk will be at noon in the Greenberg Room (460-126).
Congrats and sesquikudos to our very own Kevin McGowan, who has accepted an offer to be an Assistant Professor in the University of Kentucky’s new department of Linguistics!
On May 15-17, 2015, Stanford will host the 25th installment of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT), the premier conference for linguistic semantics and pragmatics in North America.
The program is now posted: view it here. You can register here; early registration ends April 15.
We hope to see you there!
Join our colleagues in UC Berkeley’s Cognitive Science Student Association for the 7th annual California Cognitive Science Conference on Saturday, May 2nd.
This year’s theme is Communication: The Connected Mind, and will feature speakers from the fields of Computer Science, Linguistics, Philosophy, Neuroscience, Anthropology, and Design, among others. See the roster of speakers below, and register here.
California Cognitive Science Conference
Keynote Speakers
Robert Knight, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, UC Berkeley; Professor of Neurology, UCSF
Don Norman, Director of The Design Lab, UC San Diego
Featured Speakers
Tania Lombrozo, Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley
Briankle Chang, Professor of Communication and Philosophy, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Kathleen Carley, Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
William Hanks, Professor of Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Gary Dell, Professor of Linguistics and Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Eve Sweetser, Professor of Linguistics, UC Berkeley
Stanford alum Rachel Nordlinger is a featured linguist in the Linguist List Fund Drive! She writes:
At high school my favourite subject was French. So, when I finished high school I decided I would do Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Melbourne, and major in French. I didn’t really know what I would do after that, but probably I’d “join the diplomatic corps” — whatever that meant. It sounded exciting, and if it meant I could keep doing French then that would be fine. In my second year of Uni, I needed to pick up another subject and found a subject called ‘Linguistics’ in the handbook. I could pick it up in second year, it had no exam, and it even sounded like it would be useful for learning French, so I enrolled.
That decision changed my life …
Read the full story here.
The work of Dan Jurafsky and researchers in the Department of Computer Science and the School of Education analyzing interactions from a speed dating corpus was recently featured in this Stanford Alumni article. Read all about it!