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Department News

  • Congratulations to Adrian Brasoveanu, who accepted a position as Assistant Professor (in semantics) at UCSC! Read about it in WHASC HERE.
  • It seems that we are securely on top of the Linguist List Grad School Challenge with our combined contribution of $2580. Everybody congratulate each other! But keep your eye on this page to make sure our lead isn't compromised.
  • The New York Times this week announced announced that Beth Levin has received a Guggenheim Fellowship for next year, to support her sabbatical year research. Congratulations from all of us, Beth!
  • And heartfelt sesquifelicitations to Scott Grimm, who was recently awarded a Center for African Studies Graduate Summer Research Fellowship. This is a brand new fellowship at Stanford and Scott is right in there in the first round (only 7 were awarded) - he'll go to Ghana this summer!


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    Look Who's Talking

  • Tyler Schnoebelen's abstract (based on his QP1) has been accepted as a presentation at the upcoming 3rd Workshop on "Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics" (QITL3) in Helsinki in June. He has impressive company, which you can check out HERE.
  • The first annual Complex Systems Approaches to Language workshop will take place at the U of Arizona this spring. It looks like it will be held on the weekend of April 25-27, when the set of participants will include:

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    Blast from the Past

    Well, we only got one guess. That was from Oiwi Parker Jones, who got it half right. He correctly identified Noam Chomsky as the person on the right in last week's mystery linguist picture. The person on the left was Carol Chomsky.

    OK. This week sharpen your perceptual powers. Name any two of the four linguists in this picture from 1967.


    First correct emailed to sesquip@gmail.com wins a prize.

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    Meghan's Mystery Name Game

    Last week's mystery had no winner... :-(... We will resume next week.

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    Linguistic Levity

  • The Linguistic Sign

  • Expand Your Vocabulary!

    • ADULT: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle.
    • BEAUTY PARLOR: A place where women curl up and dye.
    • CANNIBAL: Someone who is fed up with people.
    • CHICKENS: The only animals you eat before they are born and after they are dead.
    • COMMITTEE: A body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.
    • DUST: Mud with the juice squeezed out.
    • EGOTIST: Someone who is usually me-deep in conversation.
    • HANDKERCHIEF: Cold Storage.
    • INFLATION: Cutting money in half without damaging the paper.
    • MOSQUITO: An insect that makes you like flies better.
    • RAISIN: Grape with a sunburn.
    • SECRET: Something you tell to one person at a time.
    • SKELETON: A bunch of bones with the person scraped off.
    • TOOTHACHE: The pain that drives you to extraction.
    • TOMORROW: One of the greatest labor saving devices of today.
    • YAWN: An honest opinion openly expressed.
    • WRINKLES: Something other people have, similar to my character lines

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    Goings-On

    For events farther in the future consult the Upcoming Events Page.

  • FRIDAY, 11 APRIL
  • MONDAY, 14 APRIL

    • Phonology Workshop

      David Teeple (UCSC)
      Title TBA
      3:15pm, MJH 126

    • Berkeley Linguistics Colloquium

      Lise Menn (University of Colorado)
      "From mysticism to mechanism in child phonology: Getting closer to a psycholinguistically plausible model of phonological development"
      4:00pm, 182 Dwinelle, UC Berkeley

    • Berkeley Ear Club

      John Iversen (Neurosciences Institute, San Diego)
      "The effect of experience on basic rhythmic processing"
      4:00pm, 3105 Tolman Hall, UC Berkeley
  • WEDNESDAY, 16 APRIL

    • Psychology Developmental Brownbag

      Luke Butler
      "Will you help me figure it out? The role of adult framing in children's causal reasoning"
      12:00pm, 420-102

    • Psychology Department Colloquium

      George Gergely (HAS, Hungary)
      "Beyond Imitative Learning: The Case for Natural Pedagogy Evolutionary Mechanisms of Cultural Knowledge Transmission in Humans"
      3:45pm, 420-041
  • THURSDAY, 17 APRIL

    • Stanford Psychology of Language Tea (SPLaT!)

      Lise Menn (University of Colorado)
      "From mysticism to mechanism in child phonology "
      5:15 cheese and crackers; 5:30 talk, MJH 126
  • FRIDAY, 18 APRIL

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  • UPCOMING EVENTS (always under construction)
  • LINGUISTIC DEPARTMENT EVENTS PAGE
  • Got broader interests? The New Sesquipedalian recommends reading or even subscribing to the CSLI Calendar, available HERE.
  • WHAT'S HAPPENING AT UC SANTA CRUZ?
  • WHAT'S GOING ON AT UC BERKELEY?
  • HOW ABOUT MIT? UMass Amherst? U Chicago? Rutgers?

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    Blood needed!

    The Stanford Blood Center is reporting a shortage of types O, A, and B-. For an appointment, visit http://bloodcenter.stanford.edu/ or call 650-723-7831. It only takes an hour of your time and you get free cookies. The Blood Center is also raising money for a new bloodmobile.

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    11 April 2008
    Vol. 4, Issue 22



    IN THIS ISSUE:

    Department News
    •
    Look Who's Talking
    •
    Blast from the Past
    •
    Meghan's Mystery Name Game
    •
    Linguistic Levity
    •
    Goings-On
    •
    Upcoming
    •
    Sesquipedalian Staff

    Editor in Chief:
    Ivan A. Sag

    Reporters:
    Joan Bresnan, Andrew Koontz-Garboden, Beth Levin, Tom Wasow

    Photographer:
    John Ohala

    Humor Consultant:
    Susan D. Fischer

    Assistant Editor:
    Richard Futrell

    Inspiration:
    Melanie Levin
    Kyle Wohlmut


    Previous Linguistics Department Newsletters:

    4/4/2008
    3/14/2008
    3/7/2008
    2/29/2008
    2/22/2008
    2/15/2008
    2/8/2008
    2/1/2008
    1/18/2008
    1/11/2008
    12/7/2007
    11/30/2007
    11/16/2007
    11/9/2007
    11/2/2007
    10/26/2007
    10/19/2007
    10/12/2007
    10/5/2007
    9/28/2007

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