Pat Callier

Pat Callier has been awarded the Prize for Advanced Study in the Humanities. This prize is awarded each year to select graduating seniors who will be entering a PhD program in a humanities discipline in the next academic year and carries a $1,500 award. Congratulations Pat!

[You can hear about Pat's Honor's Thesis as part of today's colloquium presentation (see below) - The Sesquipeditor]

• Check out the latest issue of American Speech (82/1, Spring 2007). It's a real `Stanford issue', including three articles by current/former Stanford folks:
  
  
  • Rickford, Buchstaller, Wasow, Zwicky: Intensive and Quotative ALL (pp. 3-31)
  • Campbell-Kibler: Accent, (ING) and the Social Logic of Listener Perceptions (pp. 32-64)
  • Rahman: An ay for an ah - Language of Survival in African American Narrative Comedy (pp. 65-96)

• Look Who's Talking

  • Olga Dmitrieva and Lauren Hall-Lew are off to Salt Lake City this week to present a paper (coauthored with Rebecca Scarborough, Yuan Zhao, and Jason Brenier) at the 153RD Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. It's called: An acoustic study of real and imagined foreigner-directed speech.
  
  
• Stanford Blood Center: Shortage of O-, A-, and B-. For an appointment: http://bloodcenter.stanford.edu/ or call 650-723-7831. It only takes an hour of your time and you get free cookies.

Laura and Daniel Tie the Knot!

Congratulations to Laura Staum and Daniel Casasanto who got married on the scenic Hudson River last weekend. As you might have guessed, they've had to postpone their honeymoon plans because they both have too many academic commitments until sometime in September... Question: Why is Laura always pointing?

TODAY'S DAFFYNITIONS

1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.
2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.
3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.
5. Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent.
6. Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightgown.
7. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.
8. Gargoyle (n.), olive-flavored mouthwash.
9. Flatulence (n.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.
11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.
12. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
13. Pokemon (n), a Rastafarian proctologist.
14. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), the belief that, when you die, your Soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
16. Circumvent (n.), an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish males.

• FRIDAY, 1 JUNE

  • Linguistics Department Colloquium

    15:30 in MJH 126
    
    Pat Callier; Ryan Mead; Gabe Recchia
    Honors Projects Colloquium
    
    

  • Weekly Social

    17:00 in the department lounge. Gourmet delights from the Social Committee!.
  
  
• MONDAY, 4 JUNE

  • Phonology Workshop

    14:00 in MJH 126
    
    Advanced Phonology class presentations
  
  


• TUESDAY, 5 JUNE

  • Stanford Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop

    17:30 in MJH 126
    
    Yukinori Takubo (Kyoto University, Carleton College)
    Tense and Aspect in Japanese: 'tokoro-da' as a reference time marker


• FRIDAY, 8 JUNE

  • Linguistics Department Colloquium

    15:30 in MJH 126
    
    Carla Hudson Kam (UC Berkeley)
    Getting it right by getting it wrong: Why learners change languages and what learning failures can tell us about the mechanisms involved in acquisition
    

  • Weekly Social

    17:00 in the department lounge. Gourmet delights from the Social Committee!.
  
  
• SATURDAY, 9 JUNE

  • END OF THE YEAR PARTY

    19:00 at Cordura Hall
    
    Live music by Dead Tongues and Creole Formation
    Our last fling before the Institute!

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