#  Week of March 21, 2016 

 





March 20, 2016

 

 

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LingedIn

Wednesday, March 9 | 5pm | Boylston 303[](http://scholar.harvard.edu/dorothyahn)

**[Julia Sturm](/people/julia-sturm)**  
Aggressive Reduplication in Greek: πίμπλημι and πίμπρημι  
Practice talk for Second Indo-European Research Colloquium at the Universität Würzburg

**[Aurore Gonzalez](/people/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)**[  ](/people/aurore-gonzalez)**

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Language Universals Workshop 

**Shevaun Lewis** (Johns Hopkins)  
[The role of pragmatics in the acquisition of belief reports and speech reports](/event/universals-shevaun-lewis-johns-hopkins)  
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 Goff**, **Carl Rogers**, **Lauren Boranian**, **Priyanka Sen**, **Sean Frazzette**, **Jack Weyen**, **Sasha Benov** (not in the photo: **Dylan Hardenbergh**)

 

 

 



 

 

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