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March 2016

Week of March 21, 2016

LingedIn

Wednesday, March 9 | 5pm | Boylston 303

Julia Sturm
Aggressive Reduplication in Greek: πίμπλημι and πίμπρημι
Practice talk for Second Indo-European Research Colloquium at the Universität Würzburg

Aurore Gonzalez & Sophie Moracchini (MIT)
A morpho-semantic decomposition of French le moindre into even + superlative
Practice talk for 46th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 46)

Language Universals Workshop 

Shevaun Lewis (Johns Hopkins)
The role of pragmatics in the acquisition of belief reports and speech reports
Friday, March 25 | 4pm | Boylston 104

Congratulations, thesis writers!

All of our eight thesis-writing seniors have submitted their theses successfully. On Friday, March 11, the students gathered in the Department lounge for a mini celebration. Congratulations!

  • Sasha Benov: Variation in Czech: The Use of the Prothetic v in Informal Speech
  • Lauren Boranian: Singin’ in the Brain: Music in Expressive Aphasia Treatment
  • Sean Frazzette: DreamWorks Studios Present: A Search for a Gradient of Animacy in Slavic Languages
  • Lauren Goff: Dropping a Medieval Beat: Text Setting Patterns in the Chansons of Gilles Binchois
  • Dylan Hardenbergh: Contrastive Inferences Under Cognitive Load
  • Carl Rogers: Distinguishing already from perfect aspect: A case study of Chinese yijing
  • Priyanka Sen: Thematic Role Assignment at the Morphosyntax/Semantics Interface: From Linguistics to Neuropsychology
  • Jack Weyen: The origins and development of the English casual slang suffix -s

 
Left to right: Lauren Goff, Carl Rogers, Lauren Boranian, Priyanka Sen, Sean Frazzette, Jack Weyen, Sasha Benov (not in the photo: Dylan Hardenbergh)

Week of March 7, 2016

LingedIn

Dorothy Ahn
Proximal deictic descriptions and emotive contexts
Wednesday, March 9 | 5pm | Boylston 303

GSAS Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Workshop

Hannes Fellner (University of Vienna)
More Than Kin, Less Than Kind: Tocharian as an Inner Indo-European Language?
Thursday, March 10 | 5pm | Boylston 237

Harvard at CUNY2016

Pooja Paul, Tanya Levari (Harvard Psychology), and Jesse Snedeker presented their work titled "Syntactic and pragmatic factors drive asymmetries in online processing of ‘only’: Evidence from eye-tracking" at the 29th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY), which took place at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, March 3-5.