Congrats to Hal Tily, who was recently awarded a Summer Grant from the Center for East Asian Studies. They're funding him for a 5 week soujourn in Japan to do some reading time studies on integration cost in a head-final language. Way to go, Hal.

Don't forget this Friday's QP Fest: all day, program available here

And also start making plans for this year's TREND meeting at UC Santa Cruz, whose program is available here

Eve Clark recently gave a talk on 'Attention and information in adult-child exchanges' at the Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, NL.

Arnold Zwicky is off in Chicago this weekend, presenting a talk on `Y is X plus something' at the Pragmatics, Grammatical Interfaces, and Jerry Sadock Conference being held at the University of Chicago.

And next week, Ivan Sag is off to the University of Maryland Mayfest, where he and Philip Hofmeister (UC San Diego) will present a paper titled `Processing Factors in the Study of Island Effects'.

And our winner from last time was Rebecca Greene, who correctly identified the mystery spectogram as `Stephanie'. Who will get this week's mystery name right?

The past, present, and future editions of Slashboy and The.Whiteboard, the creative brainchildren of *Stephanie Shih, can now be found at their new virtual home. Check 'em out.

And while we're on the subject of Jesus jokes, we give you Finkelstein and Jesus:

Jesus was wandering around Jerusalem when He decided that He really needed a new robe.

After looking around for a while, He saw a sign for Finkelstein, the Tailor. So, He went in and made the necessary arrangements to have Finkelstein prepare a new robe for Him. A few days later, when the robe was finished, Jesus tried it on and it was a perfect fit!

He asked how much He owed. Finkelstein brushed him off: 'No, no, no, for the Son of God ? There's no charge! However, may I ask for a small favor? Whenever you give a sermon, perhaps you could just mention that your nice new robe was made by Finkelstein, the Tailor?'

Jesus readily agreed and as promised, extolled the virtues of his Finkelstein robe whenever He spoke to the masses.

A few months later, while Jesus was again walking through Jerusalem , He happened to walk past Finkelstein's shop and noted a huge line of people waiting for Finkelstein's robes.

He pushed his way through the crowd to speak to him and as soon as Finkelstein spotted him he said: 'Jesus, Jesus, look what you've done for my business! Would you consider a partnership?'

'Certainly,' replied Jesus. 'Jesus & Finkelstein it is.'

'Oh, no, no,' said Finkelstein. 'Finkelstein & Jesus. After all, I am the craftsman.' The two of them debated this for some time.

Their discussion was long and spirited, but ultimately fruitful and they finally came up with a mutually acceptable compromise. A few days later, the new sign went up over Finkelstein's shop. View the sign here.

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

FRIDAY, 2 MAY

• Fifth Annual QP Fest

  All day, Cordura 100

• Social after QP Fest!

  Cordura Hall
  

MONDAY, 5 MAY

• Phonology Workshop

  Patrick Suppes
  The Brain and Perceptual Similarities of Phonemes
  3:15pm, MJH 126

• Berkeley Phonetics and Phonology Phorum

  John Ohala (Berkeley)
  A brief, interpretive history of phonology over the past 2.5 millennia
  12:00pm, 182 Dwinelle, UC Berkeley

TUESDAY, 6 MAY

• Wasow Visiting Scholar Lecture

  Terrence J. Sejnowski (UCSD, Salk Institute, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
  Google Brain
  4:15pm, 380-380C

WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY

• Psychology Developmental Brownbag

  Casey Lew-Williams (Psychology)
  "Online language processing in 2-year-old vs. 20-year-old language learners"
  12:00pm, 420-102

• UCSC Linguistics Colloquium

  Junko Ito (UCSC)
  "What anime and karaoke have in common: A linguistic perspective"
  4:00pm, Stevenson College Fireside Room, UCSC

• Immanuel Kant Lecture

  Kit Fine (New York University)
  "Vagueness and Transcendence"
  5:30pm, 260-113

THURSDAY, 8 MAY

• CSLI CogLunch

  Carl Hewitt (MIT)
  "Development of Logic Programming: What went wrong, What was done about it, and What it might mean for the future"
  12:00pm, Cordura Hall 100

• Stanford Psychology of Language Tea (SPLaT!)

  Vic Ferreira (UCSD)
  
  5:15pm cheese and crackers, 5:30 talk; MJH 126

FRIDAY, 9 MAY

• Speech Lunch

  Casey Lew-Williams (Psychology)
  TBA
  12 PM, Ex Lab

• Linguistics Department Colloquium

  Victor Ferreira (UCSD)
  "What Speakers Do and Don't Do to Successfully Communicate"
  3:30pm, MJH 126

• UCSC Linguistics Colloquium

  Diana Archangeli (University of Arizona)
  Title TBA
  4:00pm, Humanities One, Room 202, UCSC

• Weekly Social!

  5:00, department lounge
  

SATURDAY, 10 MAY

• TREND

  All day, UCSC

UPCOMING EVENTS (always under construction)

LINGUISTIC DEPARTMENT EVENTS PAGE

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