Linguistics Colloquium
Department of Linguistics
Rice University
2007-2008

Note: For Rice Linguistics Department Graduate Students, the Linguistics Colloquium meetings form the content of the course Linguistics 550. If you cannot make a meeting, please let the colloquium organizer know.

Talks are generally on Thursdays from 4:00-5:30 p.m. in Herring Hall 125, unless otherwise announced. For a listing of computer and a/v technology available in this room, click here.

Visitors may want to consult this online map of Rice. Scroll over the buildings on College Way to find Herring Hall.
Herring Hall is Building 28 on College Way.

Underlined talk titles are linked to abstracts.

Spring 2008
Date	Speaker	Topic
8 Jan 08	Jim Hurford, University of Edinburgh	A parsimonious Begriffsschrift [concept notation] for animals
17 Jan 08	Andrew Pantos, Rice University	The effect of foreign accent on witness believability
24 Jan 08	Marja-Liisa Helasvuo, University of Turku, Finland	Competing strategies in person marking: double-marking vs. economy
31 Jan 08	Elizabeth Gentry, Rice University	Forensic implications of foreign accent perception
7 Feb 08	Katherine Crosswhite, Rice University	Title TBA
14 Feb 08	Amy Franklin, Rice Unviersity	Negation in American Home Sign Systems
21 Feb 08	Sarah Lee, Rice University	Title TBA
28 Feb 08	Vera Podlesskaya, Russian State University	Title TBA
6 Mar 08	No colloquium	Midterm break
13 Mar 08	Claire Bowern	Title TBA
20 Mar 08	Michelle Morrison	Title TBA
27 Mar 08	No colloquium	Rice Linguistics Symposium
3 Apr 08	No colloquium	Spring recess
10 Apr 08	Chris Taylor, Rice University	Title TBA
17 Apr 08	Linda Waugh, University of Arizona	Title TBA

 
 

Fall 2007
Date	Speaker	Topic
30 Aug 07	Suzanne Kemmer and faculty, Rice	Colloquium preview; faculty research and activities
6 Sept 07	Linda Lanz and grad students, Rice	Graduate student research and activities
13 Sept 07	Sandra Thompson, UCSB	Fixedness in Japanese adjectives in conversation: Toward a new understanding of a lexical ('part-of-speech') category
20 Sept 07	Jim Stanford, Rice	When your mother tongue is not your mother's tongue: Sui exogamy
27 Sept 07	Michel Achard, Rice	Impersonals and demonstratives: Some uses of French il and ça
4 Oct 07	Rice Graduate Students	NWAV Practice talks
	Chris Koops, Elizabeth Gentry, and Andrew Pantos, Rice	The effect of perceived speaker age on the perception of PEN/PIN vowels in Houston, TX
	Michael Colley, Rice	Diph-, monoph-, and other thongs from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
11 Oct 07	Hubert Cuyckens, University of Leuven	The development of the for...to infinitive and the emergence of new subjects in English non-finite clauses
18 Oct 07	Fey Parrill, Case Western University	Using the hands to see inside the head: Co-speech gesture as evidence for the embodied nature of human cognition
25 Oct 07	Scott Paauw, University at Buffalo and Rochester University	Language contact in Malay
1 Nov 07	Gujing Lin, Rice	Restricted adjuncts in argument structure
8 Nov 07	Nori Nagaya, Rice	Referentiality of Tagalog ang-phrases revisited: referential, definite, specific, or none of the above?
15 Nov 07	Anne Hartenstein, Rice	Northern Moldavian Hungarian verbal morphology
22 Nov 07	No Colloquium	Thanksgiving
29 Nov 07	Linda Lanz, Rice	Re-evaluating ergativity in Eskimo-Aleut: Evidence from Iñupiaq
6 Dec 07	Amy Franklin, Rice	Liar liar hands on fire: What gesture speech asynchrony reveals about thinking

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