Congratulations to Joan Bresnan, who has accepted an invitation to be an external Fellow
at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies from April 2009 - March 2010.
Don't worry - she'll still be based here at Stanford, but
she'll be making a series of trips there to collaborate with Benedikt
Szmrecsanyi and a dedicated Ph.D. student (we know - that's redundant...:-))
on the project "Dynamics of Probabilistic Grammar from an Inter-Variety
Perspective."
From the LSA Webpage:
Language Log will be recognized at the LSA's business meeting on
January 10, 2009, in San Francisco, California. The award will be
accepted on behalf of the Language Log team by two of its members:
University of Pennsylvania professor of phonetics Mark Y. Liberman
(who founded Language Log in 2003 along with Geoffrey K. Pullum, who
is now at the University of Edinburgh) and Stanford professor of
linguistics Arnold M. Zwicky (who has been a prolific and prominent
contributor since shortly after the blog was started).
Speaking of the LSA's 2009 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, Stanford
will have quite a showing there, to wit:
Arielle Borovsky (Stanford University), Marta Kutas (University of California, San Diego), Jeff Elman (University of California, San Diego): Learning words from context: The influence of constraint, reading comprehension, and vocabulary level
Harry Tily (Stanford University): Modeling variation in word order change
Julie Sweetland (Center for Inspired Teaching): Inspired linguistics: A strength-based approach to teacher education
Eyal Sagi (Northwestern University), Stefan Kaufmann (Northwestern University),
Brady Clark (Northwestern University): Tracing semantic change with latent semantic analysis
Joanna Nykiel (University of Silesia), Ivan A. Sag (Stanford University): Sluicing and stranding
Matthew Adams (Stanford University): Variation and optimization in the English comparative adjective
Ting Qian (University of Rochester), T. Florian Jaeger (University of Rochester): Universal efficient language use: Constant entropy in Mandarin Chinese
T. Florian Jaeger (University of Rochester), Austin Frank (University of Rochester), Carlos Gomez Gallo (University of Rochester), Susan Wagner Cook (University of Iowa): Rational language production: Evidence for uniform information density
Roger Levy (UC San Diego): With uncertain input, rational sentence comprehension is good enough
Klinton Bicknell (University of California, San Diego), Roger
Levy (University of California, San Diego), Vera Demberg
(University of Edinburgh): An empirical investigation and new model of
local coherences
Olga Dmitrieva (Stanford University): Geminate typology and perception of consonant length
Stephen Wechsler (University of Texas, Austin): Person marking and point of view in speech and sign
Cathryn Donohue (University of Nevada, Reno): The role of pitch height and contour in tonal perception in Fuzhou
Hanjung Lee (Sunkyunkwan University): Focus types and gradients in object case ellipsis in Korean
Lauren Hall-Lew (Stanford University): Ethnicity and phonetic variation in a San Francisco neighborhood
Inbal Arnon (Stanford University), Eve V. Clark (Stanford University): "On your feet" is better than "feet": Children's lexical knowledge is tied to frequent sequences
Bruno Estigarribia (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): Productive morphosyntax in language disordered populations
Inbal Arnon (Stanford University), Neal Snider (University of Rochester): More than words: Speakers are sensitive to the frequency of multi-word sequences
Lev Blumenfeld (Carleton University),
Ida Toivonen (Carleton University): A featural paradox in Votic harmony
Plenary Address: John Rickford (Stanford University)
Girlz II Women: Age Grading, Language Change, and Stylistic Variation
Penny Eckert (Stanford University), Tanya Matthews (University of Washington): What linguists need to know about human subjects review
Luc Baronian (Universite du Quebec a Chicoutimi): The diffusion of phonological change in early Quebec French
Poster: William Croft (University of New Mexico), Clayton Beckner (University of New Mexico), Logan Sutton (University of New Mexico), Jon Wilkins (Santa Fe Institute), Tanmoy Bhattacharya (Santa Fe Institute), Daniel Hruschka (Santa Fe Institute): Quantifying semantic shift for reconstructing language families
Poster: Tatiana Nikitina (Stanford University), Boris Maslov (University of California, Berkeley): Constructio praegnans and evolution of the goal vs. place differentiation
Poster:
Rebecca L. Starr (Stanford University): Phonological variation among Mandarin-speaking teachers in a dual-immersion school
Fabienne Salfner (ZAS Berlin), Uli Sauerland (Stanford University/ZAS Berlin): On association with contrastive topic
Meghan Sumner (Stanford University): Perceptual learning, bad maps, and the subtle nature of category shifts
Hye-Won Choi (Ewha Womans University): Heaviness competes with givenness: A corpus study of constituent order in Korean dative construction
Emily M. Bender (University of Washington): Validating analyses against data: How syntax can benefit from large-scale validation
Invited Plenary Symposium: Computational Linguistics in Support of
Linguistic Analysis, Organizers: D. Terence Langendoen (University of Arizona (Emeritus))
and National Science Foundation) and Emily Bender (University of Washington)
Bruno Estigarribia (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): Structural break estimation techniques as a measure of emergence in language acquisition
Elizabeth Coppock (Stanford University): Withering exceptions: Predicting participation in the English causative alternation
Renee Blake (New York University), Sonya Fix (New York
University), Cara Shousterman (New York University): Vowel
centralization before /r/ in two AAE dialects: A case of regional
variation
Thomas Grano (University of Chicago): Predicating gradable adjectives in Mandarin Chinese: Should we posit POS?
Laura Staum Casasanto (Stanford University): The role of sociolinguistic variation in phonological processing
Neal Snider (University of Rochester): Accessibility and passive choice
Scott Grimm (Stanford University): Topicality and raising to subject
Matthew Adams (Stanford
University), Uriel Cohen
Priva (Stanford University), Katrin Schweitzer (University of
Stuttgart): Crosslinguistic support for information theoretic effects:
A study of German phonology
Celina Troutman (Northwestern University), Brady Clark (Northwestern University): Person, pragmatics, and Principle B
Rebecca Greene (Stanford University): Language ideology and Appalachian English
Asya Pereltsvaig (Stanford University): Adjectives in layers and Babby's Puzzle
Yuan Zhao (Stanford University): Statistical inference in the learning of novel phonetic categories
American Dialect Society: Andrea Kortenhoven (Stanford University):
". . . and Testifying": An Analysis of Women's Linguistic Performance in a Black
Church Community.
Panel: The Job Market for Linguists.
Panelists: Benjamin Torbert (moderator), U. of Missouri-St. Louis;
Grant Barrett, Double-Tongued Dictionary; Christine Mallinson, U. of
Maryland-Baltimore County; Rob Podesva, Georgetown U; Jeff Reaser,
North Carolina State U.; Rebecca Roeder, Michigan State U., and Julie
Sweetland, Center for Inspired Teaching.
A Japanese doctor said, 'Medicine in my country is so advanced that we
can take a kidney out of one man, put it in another, and have him
looking for work in six weeks.'
A German doctor said, 'That's nothing, we can take a lung out of one
person, put it in another, and have him looking for work in four
weeks.' A British doctor said, 'In my country, medicine is so
advanced that we can take half of a heart out of one person, put it in
another, and have them both looking for work in two weeks.'
A Texas doctor, not to be outdone said, 'You guys are way behind. We
took a man with no brains out of Texas, put him in the White House and
now half the country is looking for work.
Oxymorons
25. Child Proof
24. "Now, then ..."
23. Synthetic natural gas
22. Christian Scientists
21. Passive aggression
20. Taped live
19. Clearly misunderstood
18. Peace force
17. Extinct Life
16. Temporary tax increase
15. Computer jock
14. Plastic glasses
13. Terribly pleased
12. Computer security
11. Political science
10. Tight slacks
9. Definite maybe
8. Pretty ugly
7. Twelve-ounce pound cake
6. Diet ice cream
5. Rap music
4. Working vacation
3. Exact estimate
2. Religious tolerance
1. Microsoft Works
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