Week of October 30th

Harvard at NELS

The following talks featured Harvard presenters at the 2017 meeting of the North East Linguistic Society at the University of Iceland, Reykjavik, held from October 27-29:

• Gasper Begus: A maximum entropy model of phonological typology
• Gasper Begus and Aleksei Nazarov: Gradient trends against phonetic naturalness: The case of Tarma Quechua
• Lena Borise and Maria Polinsky: Focus without movement: Syntax-prosody interface in Georgian
• Dorothy Ahn and Kathryn Davidson: Where pointing matters: English and Korean demonstratives

Harvard at Cornell University Greek Workshop

Stefan Höfler presented his work titled: "'La belle Hélène', a generic brothel, and the development of *CR̥HC sequences in Ancient Greek" at the Cornell University Workshop on Greek Linguistics, held on October 21st.

Linguistics Circle Workshop 

Kevin Ryan (Harvard University)
Stress, weight, and word order: Prosodic end-weight as a reflex of phrasal stress
Friday, November 3 | 3:30pm | Boylston 105