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April 2024

Week of April 22

Happy Retirement, Jim! 

Our beloved faculty and legendary linguist Jim Huang is retiring this week after joining the Linguistics Department for 22 years! Jim will be teaching his last class on April 24, so we will announce and celebrate his retirement at the Whatever Wednesday following his class! 

C.-T. James Huang received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from National Taiwan Normal University in 1971 and 1974, respectively, and in 1982 earned a Ph.D. in linguistics from MIT. He received the Linguistic Society of Taiwan's Lifetime...

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Week of April 15

LangCog 

The next LangCog meeting of the semester will be on Tuesday, April 16th from 5:30-7:00pm! It will take place in William James Hall, Room #1550. The speaker next week is Peng Qian (Harvard/MIT), and the title and abstract of his talk can be found below. Food will be available at the meeting, and you can find the schedule for the remainder of the semester on their website.

Title: The Cognitive Basis of Flexible Communication:...

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Week of April 8

LangCog 

The next LangCog meeting of the semester will be on Tuesday, April 9th from 5:30-7:00pm! It will take place in William James Hall, Room #1550. The speaker next week is Hallie Olson (MIT), and the title and abstract of her talk can be found below. Food will be available at the meeting, and you can find the schedule for the remainder of the semester on their website.

Title:...

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Week of April 1

LangCog 

The next LangCog meeting of the semester will be on Tuesday, April 2nd from 5:30-7:00pm! It will take place in William James Hall, Room #1550. Our speaker next week is Dr. Samer Nour Eddine (Tufts), and the title and abstract of his talk can be found below. Food will be available at the meeting, and you can find the schedule for the remainder of the semester on their website.

Title: Dynamic duo: Insights from a dual-unit...

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