• 2:15-2:45 Olga Dmitrieva Consonant length in Russian: Sociolinguistic and linguistic constraints
• 2:45-3:15 Yuan Zhao The effect of lexical frequency on tone space dispersion: Evidence from Cantonese tone production
• 3:30-4:00 Anubha Kothari Accented pronouns and unusual antecedents: A corpus study
• 4:00-4:30 Hal Tily Phonetic effects of syntactic probability
• 4:30 Celebrations/departamental social

Congratulations!

• Ivan Sag has been elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Ivan is in such fine company in this year's class as former vice-president Al Gore, former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt. (Perhaps surprisingly, Ivan is in Humanities and Arts, Section 3, Literary Criticism (including Philology) not section 5, Visual and Performing Arts - Criticism and Practice )

Look Who's Talking

• Joan Bresnan gave the keynote address at the Linguistic Student Association Spring Colloquium at UCSD this past Friday.
• On the same day, a continent away, John Rickford and Angela Rickford gave a special talk entitled From Outside Agitators to Inside Implementers: Improving the Literacy Education of African American Vernacular and Creole Speakers at the Center for the Study of African American Language at UMass Amherst.
• Joan Bresnan will also be giving an invited talk “Probabilistic Knowledge of Syntax -- evidence from the English dative.” at FAVS, Formal Approaches to Variation in Syntax, on May 12th. The event is taking place at the University of York in the UK. At the same event Marie-Catherine de Marneffe and Scott Grimm will present a paper describing the results of Joan's class from last quarter:
  Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Uriel Cohen Priva, Scott Grimm, Sander Lestrade, Gorkem Ozbek, Tyler Schnoebelen, Susannah Kirby, Misha Becker, Vivienne Fong & Joan Bresnan. “A statistical Model of Grammatical Choices in Children’s Productions of Dative Sentences.”
• Doug Ball gives his talk A unified aalysis of Niuean (Toingic) 'aki' Friday at the Austronesian Formal Linguistic Association meeting at McGill University.

• Fourth Annual QP Fest

  Margaret Jacks Hall 460 room 126
  

• Department of Asian Languages and the DLCL Research Group "Diversity in Language" Lecture

  12:00 in Bldg. 50, Asian Languages Library
  
  Masako K. Hiraga, (Rikkyo University and UC Berkeley)
  How Iconicity Works in Basho's Haiku: A Linguistic Analysis of Revisions

• Berkeley Syntax and Semantics Circle

  14:30 in 1229 Dwinelle Hall (UC Berkeley)
  
  Geoffrey Nunberg (UC Berkeley School of Information/CSLI)
  TBA

• Stanford Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop

  2:30pm MJH 460 126
  
  Adrian Brasoneanu (UC Santa Cruz)
  Plural Information States vs. Non-atomic Individuals

• Locical Methods in the Humanities

  12 noon Bldg. 60: 62J
  
  Johan van Benthem (Stanford University and University of Amsterdam)
  Three Logical Views of Information, and Counting ...

• Friday Cognitive Seminar (Psychology)

  15:15 in Jordan Hall (Bldg. 420), room 050
  
  Sandra Lozano and Daniel Casasanto (Psychology)
  Metaphorical meaning in motion.

• Linguistics Department Colloquium

  15:30 in MJH 126
  
  Geoffrey Nunberg (UC Berkeley School of Information/CSLI)
  TBA

• Weekly Social

  16:30 in the department lounge. Gourmet delights from the QP Fest Committee!.