#  Week of October 30th 

 





October 29, 2017

 

 

###  Harvard at NELS

 The following talks featured Harvard presenters at the [2017 meeting of the North East Linguistic Society](http://iceland2017.nelsconference.org) at the University of Iceland, Reykjavik, held from October 27-29:

- [Gasper Begus](https://scholar.harvard.edu/begus/home): A maximum entropy model of phonological typology
- [Gasper Begus](https://scholar.harvard.edu/begus/home) and [Aleksei Nazarov](https://alekseinazarov.org/): Gradient trends against phonetic naturalness: The case of Tarma Quechua
- [Lena Borise](https://scholar.harvard.edu/borise) and [Maria Polinsky](http://www.mariapolinsky.com): Focus without movement: Syntax-prosody interface in Georgian
- [Dorothy Ahn](https://dorothyahn.wordpress.com) and [Kathryn Davidson](https://scholar.harvard.edu/kathryndavidson): Where pointing matters: English and Korean demonstratives

###  Harvard at Cornell University Greek Workshop

 [Stefan Höfler](https://harvard.academia.edu/StefanHoefler) 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](http://conf.ling.cornell.edu/plab/paper/Poster_for_Workshop_on_Greek_Linguistics.pdf), held on October 21st.

###  Linguistics Circle Workshop 

 [Kevin Ryan](http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~kevinryan/) (Harvard University)  
Stress, weight, and word order: Prosodic end-weight as a reflex of phrasal stress  
Friday, November 3 | 3:30pm | Boylston 105

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