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Welcome 2004-05 Student Representatives Grad Reps: Neal Snider and Julie Sweetland Undergrad Rep: Jordan Blackthorne Congrats to our Summer Doctoral Graduates! Sarah Benor Dissertation Title: Second Style Acquisition: The Linguistic Socialization of Newly Orthodox Jews Currently Assistant Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies at Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles Brady Clark Dissertation Title: A Stochastic Optimality Theory Approach to Syntactic Change Currently Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University Cathryn Donohue Dissertation Title: Morphology matters: Case licensing in Basque Currently Visiting Researcher in the UCSC Linguistics Research Center Jacquelyn Rahman Dissertation Title: It's a Serious Business: The Construction of Middle-class White Characters by African American Narrative Comedians Currently Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio Summer Happenings More in the summer lives of linguists: Philip Hofmeister, back from his cycling trip, writes: Against all odds, and totally in the spirit of being non-academic, I cycled from faraway Portland back to Stanford, where the most reckless and aloof cyclists in the world can be found. I narrowly avoided perishing on numerous occasions, though I did not, in fact, manage to get into a fight with a bear as I had hoped. Surprisingly, I met two people on the road who knew what formal semantics was, though one later pulled me aside and very seriously confided that he would like to know the etymology of the word ‘lake.’ I stared at him for a while and then said ‘Dutch.’ (For more roadside adventures, check out Philip's blog.) Andrew Koontz-Garboden, from Nicaragua: Greetings, Stanfordites. I hope all's well back home and that the new quarter is treating you well. Melissa and I have been in Nicaragua for about the last month and a half living in the Atlantic coast community of Karawala, while I'm doing fieldwork on Ulwa (Misumalpan, about 400 speakers) at the same time that we both collaborate with members of the community-based Ulwa Language Project on documentation and revitalization projects. Also, I've attached two pictures. One of Melissa with a bunch of girls that flock to her every time they see her (she's become quite the rock star---the little girls *love* her!) and another of a river in the bush that we went on a swimming outing to last week.

Above, Haj Ross, the artist. Now, come and see Haj Ross the linguist Thursday, 10/28 and Friday, 10/29. Kudos ... ... to Anna Cueni, Micha Rinkus, and Rebecca Regos, who presented their linguistics summer internship work on October 15th! Report From NWAV 33 Stanford was well represented at NWAV 33, September 30th - October 3rd, in Ann Arbor, Michigan: Rebecca Starr and Dan Jurafsky: Phonological Variation in Shanghai Mandarin Sarah Benor: Second Style Acquisition Mary Rose and Lauren Hall-Lew: Linguistic variation and the rural imaginary Kathryn Campbell-Kibler: I know she can say her Gs: Conceptualizing variation in context Sarah Roberts: Language ideology in Hawai'i's schools, 1890-1945 Julie Sweetland: AAVE as a Stylistic Resource in a White Speaker's Linguistic Repertoire Penny Eckert gave the plenary address, "A Brush with Particularism: Style, persona, and the emergence of a preadolescent social order"; John Rickford participated in the panel session, "Considering the Effects of the Ann Arbor King Trial for Sociolinguistics in Education". Upcoming Events Wednesday, 27 October, 4:15pm, MJH Terrace Room 426: Natural Language and Speech Processing (NLaSP) Group: Marti Hearst, UC Berkeley Thursday, 28 October, 2 - 3pm, MJH Rm 126: Judith Tonhauser will dry run her talk "Towards an understanding of the meaning of nominal tense" (abstract) to be given at the 9th Sinn und Bedeutung conference in Nijmegen, Nov 1-3 Thursday, 28 October, 7:30pm, MJH Rm 126: Language and Poetic Form Workshop Haj Ross (University of North Texas) Lyn Hejinian (UC Berkeley) "The Syntax of Poetry" Thursday, 28 October David Beaver and Joan Bresnan will deliver lectures at the KNAW Academy Colloquium on "Cognitive Foundations of Interpretation" in Amsterdam Friday, 29 October, 3:30pm, MJH Rm 126: Linguistics Colloquium Haj Ross (University of North Texas) "The Grammar of Paths" (cosponsored with the Poetics Workshop, Semantics Workshop, and Syntax Workshop) Friday, 19 November, 3:30pm, MJH Rm 126: Linguistics Colloquium Alice Harris (SUNY Stony Brook) "Emergence and Renewal of Morphological Classes" Upcoming Conferences CALL FOR PAPERS First Annual Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Cultural and Social Anthropology Anthropology of the State: the State of Anthropology Friday, April 8 and Saturday, April 9, 2005 This graduate student conference aims to bring together students and professors from the San Francisco Bay area and beyond in the interests of interdisciplinary research, with particular regard to anthropology and cultural studies. Please send submissions (as well as inquiries) by email to: stanford2005conference@hotmail.com, either included in the body of the email message or as an email attachment (in Word DOC or RTF format). Deadline for 100-150 word abstracts: no later than January 1, 2005 CALL FOR PAPERS 31st Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/BLS/ To be held February 18-20, 2005 Abstract deadline: November 15, 2004, 5:00 p.m. PST