#  Week of September 6 

 





September 06, 2021

 

 

###  Zhang at AMLaP 2021

 [Yuhan Zhang](/people/claire-zhang) gave a talk titled "A noisy-channel explanation for depth-charge illusions" (joint work with Rachel Ryskin and Edward Gibson) at [Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 2021 (AMLaP)](https://amlap2021.github.io/index.html), hosted at the Université de Paris, France on September 2-4.


###  Harvard at ECIEC

 Over the summer, two graduate students in our department, Niels Kuehlert and Zach Rothstein-Dowden, gave talks at the [40th East Coast Indo-European Conference](https://sites.google.com/vt.edu/eciec2021/home?authuser=0) (ECIEC), held on June 17-19, co-hosted by Virginia Tech and Cornell University, held virtually. ECIEC abstracts are limited to invitation only submissions.

- [Niels Kuehlert](/people/niels-kuehlert): "‘Compensatory diphthongization’ in Ancient Greek dialects"
- [Zach Rothstein-Dowden](/people/zachary-rothstein-dowden): "On the numeral *cha* ‘6’ in Middle and New Indo-Aryan"

 ECIEC also featured talks from our professors:

- [Jay Jasanoff](/people/jay-jasanoff): "Vedic *dháya-*, *citáya-* and an Indo-Iranian sound law"
- [Jeremy Rau](/people/jeremy-rau): "PY Aq 64 \]*re-wi-jo-te*"

###  Spring 2021 Teaching Awards

 The following Harvard Linguistics members received [awards from the Bok Center](https://bokcenter.harvard.edu/teaching-awards) for their teaching in Spring 2021:

- Certificate of Distinction in Teaching: 
    - [Deniz Satik](/people/deniz-satik) for LING 101: *The Science of Language*
    - [Niels Torben Kuehlert](/people/niels-kuehlert) for LING 107: *Introduction to Indo-European*
    - Jessica Tanner for LING 73b *Beginning American Sign Language II*
- Certificates of Teaching Excellence: 
    - [Andrew Bottoms](/people/andrew-bottoms) for LING 73b: *Beginning American Sign Language II*
    - [Andrew Bottoms](/people/andrew-bottoms) for LING 73d: *Beginning American Sign Language IV*



 

 

 



 

 

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