Week of April 8

XIV Annual Whatmough Lecture: Larry Hyman (UC Berkeley)

"The Fall and Rise of Vowel Length in Bantu"

Larry Hyman (UC Berkeley)

Monday, April 29, 2019 | 4pm | Sever 113

 

LingedIn

Ethan Wilcox

"Structural Supervision Improves Learning of Non-Local Grammatical Dependencies "

Tuesday, April 8 | 12-1pm | Boylston 303

 

GSAS Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Workshop

Alexander (Sasha) Nikolaev (Boston University)

"Hesiodea: 1. ἅρπαξ ‘plundering’ (Op. 356); 2. ἐπᾱλής ‘warm’ (Op. 493)"

Friday, April 12 | 5pm | Boylston 335

 

Ahn Thesis Defense

Dorothy Ahn

"The Determinacy scale: a competition mechanism for anaphoric expressions"

Tuesday, April 16 | 10am-12pm | Boylston 105

 

Liu presented at 8th Annual Boston Area Psychology Symposium

Yingtong Liu gave a talk titled "Frequency effects in filler-gap constructions: Factive and manner-of-speaking island" at the 8th Annual Boston Area Psychology Graduate Student Symposium at Northeastern University on Wednesday, April 3.

 

Bhadra and Bottoms awarded Bok Center Certificate of Excellence in Teaching

Lecturer Diti Bhadra and Preceptor Andrew Bottoms have been awarded Harvard Excellence Teaching Awards from The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning for the following Fall 2018 courses:

  • Diti Bhadra: Ling 116 "Semantic Theory I"
  • Andrew Bottoms: Ling 73C "Beginning American Sign Language III"

 

Bryant and Yang awarded Bok Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching

Graduate students Shannon Bryant and Tsai-Heng (Tiffany) Yang have been awarded Harvard Distinction Teaching Awards from The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning for the following Fall 2018 courses:

  • Shannon Bryant: Ling 83 "Language, Structure & Cognition"
  • Tsai-Heng (Tiffany) Yang: Ling 112 "Syntactic Theory I"