#  Week of March 18, 2013 

 





March 16, 2013

 

 

### Spring Recess

Harvard's Spring Recess [begins](http://www.registrar.fas.harvard.edu/event/spring-recess-begins) Saturday, March 16 and [ends](http://www.registrar.fas.harvard.edu/event/spring-recess-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:

SortRuthe 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](http://bokcenter.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do) 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'](http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/plc37/abstracts/Lee_PLC37.pdf)," at the [37th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium](http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/plc37/) Saturday, March 22, at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.



 

 

 



 

 

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