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Congratulations to Simin Karimi, Mohsen Mahdavi and Ryan Smith on their successful trip to France to conduct fieldwork and present at a workshop on complex predicates!
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The Program Coordinator for the Department of Linguistics, Shayna Walker, will be graduating on December 15th with her MA in Criminology and Criminal Justice. She will be graduating Summa Cum Laude with a thesis on US drug treatment policies and prison sentencing for non-violent felony offenders. Congratulations, Shayna!!
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There will be a Linguistics Colloquium held this Friday (Dec 4) from 3:00pm to 4:30pm in Communication 311. Dr. Ted Supalla (Georgetown University) will be presenting. Title: "Revisiting Historical Change in Signed Languages" (http://linguistics.arizona.edu/current-colloquium#Dec-4) All are welcome! Post date: Thu, 03/12/2015 - 3:23am |
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Robert Henderson was in Japan the week of November 15th. He gave an invited talk at the 12th Logic and Engineering Natural Language Semantics conference held at Ochanomizu University in Tokyo. He spoke on "Pluractional Demonstrations", which combines his reasearch on pluractionality with new work in the semantics of ideophones. On the 21st of November, he traveled to Kyoto to give a talk on expressive meaning at Kyoto University as part of the ``Establishment of Knowledge-Intensive... Read more Post date: Wed, 02/12/2015 - 4:40pm |
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Simin Karimi, Mohsen Mahdavi and Ryan Smith, representing the Iranian Complex Predicate Research Group, will present a talk at a conference at Sorbonne in Paris on November 25, and will spend two weeks collecting data from various Iranian languages for this research. We wish them all the best! Post date: Thu, 19/11/2015 - 10:52pm |
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The "Linguistics in Children's Museum Tucson" project is a collaboration between UA and Children's Museum Tucson that aims to introduce children to scientific research in an informal setting. Click through to the UA News article below to hear more about the initiative from Cecile McKee, who leads the project team, PhD candidate Elly Zimmer, and anthropology undergraduate Genesis Grijalva. ... Read more Post date: Wed, 18/11/2015 - 11:39am |
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Andy Wedel was on KGUN9 local news discussing new research that suggests that physical properties of the local environment can potentially shape the consonant inventories of languages over time. It's great to see linguistics in the news, and even better to see UA linguists there. You can see his interview at the link below. Post date: Thu, 12/11/2015 - 4:43pm |
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Ofelia Zepeda will be receiving the Museum of Contemporary Art's (MOCA) Local Genius Award on April 16, 2016. The MOCA Local Genius Awards honor those visionary and innovative Tucsonans whose activities have a global impact, and whose talents have been internationally recognized. Congratulations, Ofelia! Post date: Tue, 27/10/2015 - 3:57pm |
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PhD student Noah Nelson will be presenting at the Cognitive Science Colloquium this Friday, Oct 30, from 12:00pm to 1:30pm in Room 205 of the Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Building. Title: Hyperarticulated Speech Correlates with Phonetically Specific Lexical Competition Abstract: http://cogsci.arizona.edu/sites/... Read more Post date: Tue, 27/10/2015 - 3:56pm |
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The flyer for the 9th annual meeting of the Arizona Linguistics Circle (ALC9) has been released! The conference will be held on Nov 6-8, 2015.
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