Week of March 18, 2013
Spring Recess
Harvard's Spring Recess begins Saturday, March 16 and ends Sunday, March 24. There will be no classes and the department will have limited hours.
Senior Theses Submitted
Congratulations to the 9 senior linguistics concentrators who submitted their senior theses Friday:
Ruthe Foushee: | What we mean when we talk about things: Pragmatic units of quantification in Tseltal Maya |
Ruth Goins (Linguistics and Anthropology): | What’s Harrapan-ing? Computational Linguistics and the Indus Script |
Nyamagaga Gondwe (African and African American Studies and Linguistics): | The Dissonance in Narratives of Brazil’s Racial Harmony: On Misrepresentations of Black Brazil in Popular Culture That Intensify Black Brazilian Social Marginality |
Christopher Hopper: | Syllabus for Success: Creating a Realistic Educational Framework for the Roma in the Czech Republic and Slovakia through Effective Language and Integration Measures |
Samuel Pokross: | Testing the Theory of Comprehension and Coreference: An Auditory Study of English Resumption |
Gabrielle Tandet: | Negation and Negative Pronouns in Chontal Mayan |
Arun Viswanath: | Heritage English in Israeli Children |
Qingqing Wu: | Differential Effects of Cognitive Load on the Processing of Numerals and Standard Scalar Quantifiers |
Colin Zwanziger: | A Structural Account of Paradoxes of Circularity and Regress |
Caitlin Keenan Wins Teaching Award
Congratulations to Caitlin Keenan, who has won a Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching from the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning for her Fall 2012 course Ling 83, "Language, Structure, and Cognition."
Harvard at PLC 37
Jenny Lee will be presenting a poster, "The temporal interpretation of the -ko construction in Korean: Toward an adjunction analysis of clausal 'coordination'," at the 37th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium Saturday, March 22, at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.