Week of April 11, 2016

Whatmough Lecture: Alec Marantz

Linguistics as Cognitive Science: Back to our Roots
Monday, April 11 | 4:00pm-6:00pm | Fong Auditorium, 110 Boylston Hall

Meaning & Modality Lab Open House

Wednesday, April 13 | 3pm-6pm | 2 Arrow St (4th floor)

The M&M Lab Open House will take place from 3pm to 6pm at the newly furnished M&M lab. Come find out what's happening in the lab and enjoy snacks, drinks, and good company. Everyone is welcome!

Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies

The twenty-first annual Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies will take place Friday, April 15, 2016, from 1:45 to 5:30, in the Belfer Case Study Room (S020) of CGIS South. One of our seniors, Sasha Benov '16 will be representing the Linguistics Department with her work titled "Variation in Czech: The Use of the Prothetic v in Informal Speech".

ECO-5 at MIT

This year's ECO-5 Graduate Student Workshop will take place at MIT on Saturday, April 16. Tiffany Yang, Gunnar Lund, and Lena Borise will be representing Harvard at the workshop. The program can be found here.

Harvard at GLOW 39

Dorothy Ahn and Isabelle Charnavel presented their work titled "Relevance of perspective in syntax: new evidence from Korean anaphors" at the 39th Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW39) colloquium that took place in Göttingen, Germany, April 5-8.

Harvard at PhoNE

Gašper Beguš presented his work titled "Unnatural Phenomena and Gradient Phonotactics" at Phonology in the Northeast (phoNE) conference that took place at NYU, New York, Apr 9.