UPCOMING EVENTS

For a more detailed look at this week's events check the current newsletter.

WEDNESDAY, 7 JANUARY

• Psychology Colloquium (note corrected day)
  Michael Frank (MIT)
  Statistical learning through communicative inference in early language acquisition
  3:45pm, 420-041

THURSDAY, 8 JANUARY - SUNDAY, 11 JANUARY

• LSA Annual Meeting - San Francisco
  Conference, Hilton San Francisco, 333 OFarrell St.

SATURDAY, 10 JANUARY

• Stanford Party at LSA
  Location (a bar in or near the Hilton) to be announced.

MONDAY, 12 JANUARY

• Phonology Workshop
  Organizational Meeting
  4:00pm, Chair's Office
• Cognition and Language Workshop
  Barbara Tversky
  4:15pm, Cordura 100
• Stanford Presidential Lecture in the Humanities and Arts
  Daniel C. Dennett
  University Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University
  
  "The Evolution of 'Why' as the Key to Free Will"
  LECTURE: Monday, January 12, 7:00 p.m.
  LOCATION: Building 320 (Geology corner), Room 105
  
  DISCUSSION: Tuesday, January 13, 4:00 p.m.
  LOCATION: Stanford Humanities Center, 424 Santa Teresa Street

TUESDAY, 13 JANUARY

• Special Department Colloquium
  Anthony Kroch (University of Pennsylvania)
  Statistical Independence in Syntactic Change
  5:00pm, MJH 126

FRIDAY, 16 JANUARY

• Semantics Workshop
  Tine Breban (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
  12:00pm, MJH 126

THURSDAY, 22 JANUARY

• Special Department Seminar
  Chris Potts (UMass Amherst)
  "The Dynamics of Apposition"
  3:30pm, Bldg. 160 (Wallenberg Hall), Room 331
• Stanford Psychology of Language Tea (SPLaT!)
  Mirjam Ernestus (MPI Nijmegen)
  "The comprehension and lexical representation of reduced speech"
  5:15pm, 460-126

FRIDAY, 23 JANUARY

• Department Colloquium
  Chris Potts (UMass Amherst)
  "Characterizing exclamatives cross-linguistically with large corpora"
  3:30pm, MJH 126

MONDAY, 26 JANUARY

• Cognition and Language Workshop
  Ronald Langacker (UCSD)
  4:15pm, Cordura 100

THURSDAY, 29 JANUARY

• Special Department Seminar/Phonology Workshop
  Giorgio Magri (MIT)
  "Another Look at the Ranking Problem in Optimality Theory"
  10:30 am, MJH 126

FRIDAY, 30 JANUARY

• Department Colloquium
  Giorgio Magri (MIT)
  "A Theory of Individual Level Predicates Based on Blind Mandatory Scalar Implicatures"
  3:30pm, MJH 126

MONDAY, 2 FEBRUARY

• Semantics Workshop
  Scott Grimm
  "Number marking and individuation: a view from Dagaare"
  12:00pm, MJH 126

FRIDAY, 6 FEBRUARY

• Linguistics/Philosophy/Psychology Colloquium
  Susan Carey (Harvard Psychology)
  "The Origin of Concepts"
  3:30pm, 420-041

MONDAY, 9 FEBRUARY

• Special Department Seminar
  Amy Rose Deal (UMass, Amherst)
  "Modal Aspectual Meaning"
  5pm, MJH 126

TUESDAY, 10 FEBRUARY

• Department Colloquium
  Amy Rose Deal (UMass, Amherst)
  "Ergative Case and the Transitive Subject"
  12:00pm, MJH 126

TUESDAY, 17 FEBRUARY

• Semantics Workshop
  Edit Doron (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  The Interaction of Adjectival Passive and Voice
  10:30am, MJH 126

MONDAY, 23 FEBRUARY

• Phonology Workshop
  Stephanie Shih, Jason Grafmiller, Richard Futrell, and Joan Bresnan
  "Rhythm's Role in Genitive and Dative Construction Choice in Spoken English"
  4:00pm, Chair's Office

THURSDAY, 26 FEBRUARY

• SocioRap
  Rebecca Greene
  "Eastern Kentucky English and Ideology"
  5:15pm snacks, 5:30pm talk, MJH 126

WEDNESDAY, 4 MARCH - THURSDAY, 5 MARCH

• Admissions Open House

SATURDAY, 7 MARCH

• Conference on Language and Spatial Reasoning
  9:00am-5:00pm

MONDAY, 9 MARCH

• Phonology Workshop
  Kyuwon Moon
  4:00pm, Chair's Office

TUESDAY, 10 MARCH

• Department Colloquium
  Elisabeth Norcliffe
  Dissertation Proposal Talk
  10:30am, MJH 126

FRIDAY, 13 MARCH - SATURDAY, 14 MARCH

• 10th SemFest

FRIDAY, 10 APRIL

• Semantics Workshop
  Chris Kennedy (UChicago)
  "On Averaging"
  3:30pm, MJH 126

FRIDAY, 17 APRIL

• Department Colloquium
  Matthew Gordon (UCSB)
  3:30pm, MJH 126

THURSDAY, 23 APRIL

• SocioRap
  Caroline Tamsin Piercy (U Essex)
  /a:/ and /α:/ in Dorset English
  5:15pm snacks, 5:30pm talk, MJH 126

FRIDAY, 24 APRIL

• Semantics Workshop
  Lucas Champollion (U Penn and PARC)
  A Unified Account of Nominal Distributivity, For-Adverbials, and Measure Phrases
  3:30pm, MJH 126

WEDNESDAY, 29 APRIL

• Cognition and Language Workshop
  Michael Ramscar (Stanford Psychology)
  "Language is Uncertain"
  4:15pm, Cordura 100

FRIDAY, 1 MAY

• Department Colloquium
  Fritz Newmeyer (University of Washington)
  3:30pm, MJH 126

THURSDAY, 7 MAY

• SocioRap
  Habiha Jerad (U Tunis)
  On language planning and linguitics uses and change in multilingual contexts: the example of Tunisia
  5:15pm snacks, 5:30pm talk, MJH 126

FRIDAY, 8 MAY

• QP Fest 1:00pm

SATURDAY, 9 MAY

• TREND
  Trilateral Weekend: Stanford, Berkeley, UCSC
  All day

THURSDAY, 14 MAY

• Cognition and Language Workshop/SPLaT!
  roundtable discussion on upcoming paper, "The Myth of Language Universals"
  5:15pm, Cordura 100

FRIDAY, 15 MAY

• Semantics Workshop
  Bhuvana Narasimhan (U Colorado, Boulder)
  Information status and word order in child and adult language
  3:30pm, MJH 126

THURSDAY, 21 MAY

• SocioRap
  Rob Podesva (Georgetown)
  5:15pm snacks, 5:30pm talk, MJH 126

FRIDAY, 22 MAY

• Undergraduate Honors Presentations

FRIDAY, 29 MAY

• Semantics Workshop
  Theres Gruter
  "Acquiring the scope of disjunction and negation in L2"
  3:30pm, MJH 126

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, 30-31 MAY

• Cognition and Language Workshop
  Conference on language, reasoning, and uncertainty
  Co-sponsored by CSLI
  4:15pm, Cordura 100

THURSDAY, 4 JUNE

• SocioRap
  Nate Dumas (UC Berkeley)
  Is There Variational Reduplication?: Landar's Hypothesis and Stuttering as Sociolinguistic Practice
  5:15pm snacks, 5:30pm talk, MJH 126