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 GoffCarl RogersLauren Boranian, Priyanka Sen, Sean FrazzetteJack Weyen, Sasha Benov (not in the photo: Dylan Hardenbergh)