Week of November 14, 2011 (Student Workshop, Events at Harvard and Around Town)

Hello Linguists,

Congratulations to Siena Leslie, undergraduate linguistics concentrator, who has been elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Chapter at Harvard College!

Thanks to Edwin Tsai, graduate students in our department will have the opportunity to present their work at the (first annual?) graduate student workshop. The workshop will take place in the afternoon of Saturday, November 19th. Sometime in the next couple of days, we will post a special edition of Spell-Out with the titles of the talks as well as various logistical information. All are welcome.

We hope to see you at this week's linguistics events (more below) and as always write us if you have anything you would like to add.

All the best,

Your Bloglings

This week at Harvard... 

On Tuesday, November 15, 5:00 p.m. in 2 Arrow Street, Polinsky Language Processing Lab, Kristin Yu (University of Massachusetts Amherst and University of Maryland), as part of the GSAS Workshop Language Universals and Linguistic Fieldwork will present "The learnability of tones from the speech signal." 

On Friday, November 18, 4:00 p.m. in Boylston 103, our own Caitlin Keenan, as part of the GSAS Workshop on Indo-European and Historical Linguistics will present "Apparent Idiosyncrasies in the Development of English a(n) – Ramifications for DP Syntax"

Around Town...

MIT: On Friday, November 18, 3:30 p.m. in 32-141, Maria Aloni (University of Amsterdam) will present "Modal inferences in marked indefinites." For more information click here.