Week of March 21, 2016

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LingedIn

Wednesday, March 9 | 5pm | Boylston 303

Julia Sturm
Aggressive Reduplication in Greek: πίμπλημι and πίμπρημι
Practice talk for Second Indo-European Research Colloquium at the Universität Würzburg

Aurore Gonzalez & Sophie Moracchini (MIT)
A morpho-semantic decomposition of French le moindre into even + superlative
Practice talk for 46th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 46)

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Language Universals Workshop 

Shevaun Lewis (Johns Hopkins)
The role of pragmatics in the acquisition of belief reports and speech reports
Friday, March 25 | 4pm | Boylston 104

Congratulations, thesis writers!

All of our eight thesis-writing seniors have submitted their theses successfully. On Friday, March 11, the students gathered in the Department lounge for a mini celebration. Congratulations!

  • Sasha Benov: Variation in Czech: The Use of the Prothetic v in Informal Speech
  • Lauren Boranian: Singin’ in the Brain: Music in Expressive Aphasia Treatment
  • Sean Frazzette: DreamWorks Studios Present: A Search for a Gradient of Animacy in Slavic Languages
  • Lauren Goff: Dropping a Medieval Beat: Text Setting Patterns in the Chansons of Gilles Binchois
  • Dylan Hardenbergh: Contrastive Inferences Under Cognitive Load
  • Carl Rogers: Distinguishing already from perfect aspect: A case study of Chinese yijing
  • Priyanka Sen: Thematic Role Assignment at the Morphosyntax/Semantics Interface: From Linguistics to Neuropsychology
  • Jack Weyen: The origins and development of the English casual slang suffix -s

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Left to right: Lauren GoffCarl RogersLauren Boranian, Priyanka Sen, Sean FrazzetteJack Weyen, Sasha Benov (not in the photo: Dylan Hardenbergh)