Linguist List recently announced the release of
Eve Clark'sFirst Language Acquisition (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Congratulations, Eve! (But what exactly does
"a new edition of a previously announced book" mean?)
Jen
Hay has been visiting the department for a couple of weeks.
Yesterday, she gave an informal demo of the latest ONZEminer software
at the
Spoken Syntax Lab at CSLI. And last night, she gave an impressive
presentation at SPLaT: "Usage-based representations: Evidence from New
Zealand English /r/-sandhi" (see below).
If you're interested in meeting with Jen (jen.hay@canterbury.ac.nz),
you'd better act
fast, because she's leaving tomorrow...
Yes, by popular demand, returns
to the New Sesquipedalian. Check out this all-star encore performance by
The Helsinki Complaints Choir:
And the critical acclaim was immediate:
Whenever a Nokia mobile phone rings I start to sing: "soittoäänet
kaikki yhtä ärsyttäviä", so my family has already learnt this small
phrase... :D -madaraszi
"And the Finnish language is bloody difficult to learn!" Nice. -Liralei
Csak csekk, csak csekk, csak csekk :) -webberke
lmao! i do that too -dgrant625
Kyllä tämä hän oli hyvä kappale :D Terveisiä ruotsista. Voititte
viime kerralla että älkää enää valittako. Too bad to all you who
don't speak finnish, it was so much better than when I read the
subs. -matmund2
I especially loved the complaint about people standing at the end of
escalators! And the daily paper IS too thick! -mopsi987
As announced previously, Ben & Jerry created the "Yes Pecan!"
ice cream flavor for Obama. Now, suggestions are being solicited for
George W. Bush. Here are some of the current entries:
Grape Depression
Abu Grape
Cluster Fudge
Nut'n Accomplished
Iraqi Road
Chock 'n Awe
Wire Tapioca
Impeach Cobbler
Guantanmallow
imPeachmint
Heck of a Job, Brownie!
Neocon Politan
Rocky Road to Fascism
The Reese's-cession
Cookie D'oh!
The Housing Crunch
Nougalar Proliferation
Death by Chocolate and Torture
Freedom Vanilla Ice Cream
Chocolate Chip On My Shoulder
Credit Crunch
Mission Pecanplished
Country Pumpkin
Chunky Monkey in Chief
WMDelicious
Bloody Sundae
Caramel Preemptive Stripe
I broke the law and am responsible for the deaths of thousands with nuts
An evening of electronic music of all kinds at
CCRMA's quarterly concert. Performances and works
by: Nicholas Bryan, Rocco Di Pietro, Andy Greenwood,
Craig Hanson, Max Mathews, Larry Marotta, Jieun Oh,
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano, Jason Sadural, and Cobi van
Tonder.
8:00pm, CCRMA Stage, The Knoll, Free Admission
Jean-Claude Risset birthday celebration with Mari Kimura
A celebration of Jean-Claude Risset's 70th birthday.
Performers: Jean-Claude Risset and violinist Mari Kimura.
Works by Risset, Kimura, Bach and Nancarrow
8:00pm, CCRMA Stage, The Knoll, Free Admission
10TH ANNUAL SEMANTICS FEST
on Friday and Saturday, March 13-14, ALL DAY
Stanford
"The Construction of Meaning"
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
DEADLINE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6th, 5 PM
The Construction of Meaning Workshop is pleased to sponsor the Tenth
Annual Stanford Semantics Fest. We will celebrate this milestone by
making the Semantics Fest a two-day event, which will include
presentations by Construction of Meaning Workshop alumni as well as
current participants.
The Semantics Fest is intended to promote discussion and collaboration
among all those in the Stanford community interested in the semantics
and pragmatics of natural language, as well as their interface with
other modules of grammar. We encourage contributions from all those
who are participants in the Construction of Meaning Workshop or
members of the Stanford community who share these interests.
Abstracts are invited for 20 minute talks (plus 10 minutes discussion)
on any topic touching on semantics and pragmatics in natural language.
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font and be no more than 1 page long; a second page may include
references. Abstracts are due by 5pm on FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6th.
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