# Week of April 8 April 08, 2019 ### XIV Annual Whatmough Lecture: Larry Hyman (UC Berkeley) "The Fall and Rise of Vowel Length in Bantu" [Larry Hyman](http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~hyman/) (UC Berkeley) Monday, April 29, 2019 | 4pm | Sever 113 ### LingedIn [Ethan Wilcox](/people/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](/people/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](/people/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](http://calendar.northeastern.edu/event/8th_annual_boston_area_psychology_graduate_student_symposium#.XKuLbJhKg54) on Wednesday, April 3. ### Bhadra and Bottoms awarded Bok Center Certificate of Excellence in Teaching Lecturer [Diti Bhadra](/people/diti-bhadra) and Preceptor [Andrew Bottoms](/people/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](/people/shannon-bryant) and [Tsai-Heng (Tiffany) Yang](/people/tsai-heng-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" Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#)