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• The Littlest Linguist

  David Medeiros writes that on Tuesday at 1:39pm, Autumn gave birth to their son, Hayden, who was 8lb 11oz and 19.5in at birth. Hayden is a beautiful and healthy baby, and is a joy be with. (Click for details.)
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• Congrats to Drs. Tyler, Zhang, & Szymanski

  Joseph Tyler (April 18), Xinting Zhang (April 22), and Terry Szymanski (April 26) successfully defended their dissertations. (Click title for titles/abstracts.)
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• Pires at "Formal Approaches to Heritage Language"

  Acrisio Pires was a keynote speaker at the Conference on Formal Approaches to Heritage Language, April 21-22, 2012, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with the talk “Heritage Bilingual Acquisition and Syntactic Change”
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• Courtesy Appointments for Keshet (Philosophy) and Queen (English)

  Two Linguistics faculty members have recently received courtesy appointments in other departments: Ezra Keshet in Philosophy and Robin Queen in English Language and Literature.
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• Chatterjee and Hettiarachchi receive Rackham Centennial Summer Fellowships

  Tridha Chatterjee and Sujeewa Hettiarachchi each received a competitive Rackham Centennial Spring/Summer Fellowship to work on their research in collaboration with a faculty mentor. Congratulations Tridha and Sujeewa!
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• Emily Coppess to University of Chicago Linguistics

  Congratulations to Emily Coppess, U of M Linguistics and Math alum (class of 2011), who will join the PhD program in Linguistics at the University of Chicago!
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• Medeiros receives Mellon/ACLS Fellowship

  David Medeiros received a highly competitive Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Grant. Congratulations, David and well done!
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• Lauren Squires to OSU

  Lauren Squires (PhD 2011) has been named to a tenure-track position in the English Department at the Ohio State University.
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• Thomason at the Berkeley Linguistics Society

  Sally Thomason gave a plenary talk, "Contact-induced language change and typological congruence", at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society in February. (Click title for details)
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• Tim Chou awarded Rackham Pre-Doc Fellowship

  Tim Chou has received a prestigious Rackham Pre-Doctoral Fellowship for the Academic Year 2012-13.
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• Chatterjee at the Berkeley Linguistics Society

  Tridha Chatterjee presented a paper at the Berkeley Linguistics Society's 38th Annual Meeting titled "Bilingual Compound Verbs: So what's new about them?" (Click title for details.)
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• Linguistics grad's unusual job application

  Click the title to see the story of Lindsay Blackwell's unusual way to land a job.
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• Tim Chou journal paper and conference

  A paper by graduate student Tim Chou is now published in the journal Syntax: A Journal of Theoretical, Experimental, and Interdisciplinary Research. He will also present at the 36th Penn Linguistics Colloquium in the end of March.
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• John Swales (Emeritus) update

  John Swales writes in with his plans for the semester. (Click title for details.)
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• Joseph Tyler receives Graduate Teaching Certificate

  On December 1, Joseph Tyler received the Graduate Teaching Certificate from the University of Michigan Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT). (Click title for details.)
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• San Duanmu update

  San Duanmu gave several talks November 2011 through January 2012. He also has an article appearing in the Journal of East Asian Linguistics. (Click title for details.)
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• Michigan at the LSA Annual Meeting

  Michigan was well represented at the Linguistic Society of America 2012 Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon, with a plenary address, four papers, two posters, and three other participants.
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• Sally Thomason talk on Endangered Languages

  Sally Thomason gave a plenary talk at the 26th annual University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium: Language Death, Endangerment, Documentation, and Revitalization, in October 2011.
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• David Medeiros at Islands in Contemporary Linguistic Theory conference

  David Medeiros recently presented his paper "The status of wh-islands in Japanese: Evidence from a reaction time paradigm" at the Islands in Contemporary Linguistic Theory conference in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. Click title for details.
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• Joseph Tyler at Lehiste Memorial Symposium

  Joseph Tyler attended the Ilse Lehiste Memorial Symposium November 11-12, at the The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. He gave a talk titled "Prosody and Listeners' Interpretation of Ambiguous Discourse". (click title for details)
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• Julie Boland in the News

  Prof. Julie Boland appears in the latest LSA Magazine. Click the title for details.
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• O'Shannessy paper in Bilingualism

  "Comprehension of competing argument marking systems in two Australian mixed languages," by Carmel O'Shannessy and Felicity Meakins (University of Queensland) has appeared online.
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• Michigan at MidPhon 17

  Xinting Zhang, Andries Coetzee, San Duanmu, Miyeon Ahn, Emily Mange, Emily Reimann, and Anne-Michelle Tessier presented papers or posters at MidPhon 17. (Click title for details.)
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• Acrisio Pires paper in Lingua

  Pires, Acrisio, Jason Rothman and Ana L. Santos. 2011. L1 Acquisition across Portuguese Dialects: Modular and interdisciplinary interfaces as sources of explanation. (Click title for details.)
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• Joseph Tyler at ETAP 2

  Joseph Tyler presented two posters at the Experimental and Theoretical Approaches to Prosody conference from Sept. 23-25. (Click title for details.)
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• Kovelman, Yip, & Beck publish in NeuroReport

  Ioulia Kovelman, Jon Yip, and Erica Beck have a paper to appear soon in NeuroReport: Cortical Systems that Process Language, as Revealed by Non-native Speech Sound Perception. Click the title for details.
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• U-M Linguistics Tenure Track Position

  The Department of Linguistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, invites applications for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level, beginning September 1, 2012.
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• Recent QRPs: Tim Chou, Erica Beck

  Congratulations to Tim Chou and Erica Beck on completing their QRPs this year. (Click the title for details.)
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• Eric Brown in Portugal, Cape Verde

  Eric Brown spent last year doing coursework in Portugal and fieldwork in Cape Verde. (Click the title for details.)
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• Tridha Chatterjee and Yiwen Zhou at Michicagoan 2011

  The 2011 Michicagoan Graduate Student Conference in Linguistic Anthropology hosted talks by Tridha Chatterjee and Yiwen Zhou. (Click the title for details.)
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• Marlyse Baptista, Institute for the Humanities Fellow

  Marlyse Baptista is a 2011-12 Hunting Family Professor for the U of M Institute for the Humanities. (Click the title for details.)
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• Andries Coetzee Summer update

  Andries reports on trips to South Africa, the Netherlands, and Hong Kong, as well as a handbook article publication. (Click the title for details.)
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• Joseph Tyler at the International Pragmatics Association

  Joseph Tyler attended the Annual Meeting of the International Pragmatics Association, from July 3-8 at the University of Manchester, in Manchester UK.
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• Diane Larsen-Freeman update

  Diane Larsen-Freeman delivered plenary addresses at the International Association of Applied Linguistics and the British Association of Applied Linguistics.
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• John Swales (Emeritus) update

  John Swales writes in with the "2011 Activities of a retired Professor of Linguistics."
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• Meet Anne-Michelle Tessier

  This year we welcome Anne-Michelle Tessier as Language Learning Visiting Research Scientist and Visiting Assistant Professor.
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• O'Shannessy Update

  Carmel O'Shannessy has been busy publishing chapters in two books and articles in the Journal of Child Language and in Linguistics.
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• Medeiros and Keshet at CLS 47

  David Medeiros and Ezra Keshet presented papers at the 47th meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society.
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• Alumni News Roundup

  News on recent grads Damon Tutunjian, Anna Babel, Hamid Ouali, and others.
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• Faculty Award: Pam Beddor receives Collegiate Professorship

  Congratulations to Pam Beddor for receiving a prestigious Collegiate Professorship from the U of M LS&A.
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• Return of the Blog

  The Linguistics blog is back from summer hiatus and is now available as the "News" feature on the new Linguistics website.
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• Kong, Hauk thesis awards

  Shang Kong and Bryn Hauk have received the Matthew Alexander award for outstanding honors thesis in Linguistics. In addition, Bryn Hauk has won the Virginia Voss Memorial Award for excellence in writing by a senior honors woman.
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• Department Receives Undergraduate Initiative Award

  The University of Michigan Linguistics department has been awarded the 2011 Departmental Award for Contributions to the Undergraduate Initiative. From the LSA website:
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• Congratulations, Drs Hefright & Lin!

  On Monday, Brook Hefright successfully defended his dissertation, Language contact as bilingual contrast among Bai language users in Jianchuan County, China.
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• NSF Graduate Fellowships: Rule & Opper

  Congratulations to Cameron Rule and Michael Opper, who received two of the ten prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships in Linguistics this year.
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• Faculty Research Award: Marlyse Baptista and Susan Gelman

  Marlyse Baptista and Susan Gelman received a Faculty Research Award from the Office for the Vice President for Research and the LSA Dean’s Office to design a set of experiments testing the convergence hypothesis in creole genesis.
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• Lecture: Robin Queen

  Robin Queen, Thurnau Professor of Linguistics and German, recently presented as part of the “How I Write” series sponsored by the Sweetland Center for Writing.
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• Faculty Research Award: Marlyse Baptista and Susan Gelman

  Marlyse Baptista and Susan Gelman received a Faculty Research Award from the Office for the Vice President for Research and the LSA Dean’s Office to design a set of experiments testing the convergence hypothesis in creole genesis.
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• Sabbatical Update: San Duanmu

  San Duanmu reports: I am enjoying my sabbatical this semester. I made a one-week visit to Seoul in January and gave some talks there. I also met two of our former students...
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• David Medeiros receives Predoctoral Fellowship

  Congratulations to Linguistics graduate student David Medeiros for receiving a competitive Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship:
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• Nico Baier at 45th ICSNL

  Recent U of M graduate Nico Baier presented his paper Irrealis Morphology in Montana Salish at the 45th International Conference on Salish and Neighboring Languages at the University of Oregon, June 26-27, 2010.
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• AAAL Award for Diane Larsen-Freeman

  Diane Larsen-Freeman has been selected unanimously as the 2011 recipient of the American Association for Applied Linguistics‘s Distinguished Scholarship and Service Award for her contributions...
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• Marlyse Baptista at Indiana U

  Marlyse Baptista gave a colloquium talk for the Linguistics Department at Indiana University on Friday, September 24. The title of her talk was “The Founder Principle: Diachronic Clues for Creole Genesis.”
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• Alumnae News: appointment and marriage

  Manique Gunesekera (PhD 1989) has recently been appointed Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Kelanya in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Betty Samraj (PhD 1995) got married late last year in San Diego. Sunny Hyon (PhD 1995) was maid of honor.
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• U of M at LSA Annual Meeting

  The University of Michigan was well-represented at the Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting just held last weekend (January 6-9) in Pittsburgh, PA.
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• Remaining Summer roundup

  I’ve been dribbling the summer news out week-by-week, which was a rather slow process when we only had one story at a time on the linguistics home page...
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• New Assistant Professor: Lauren Squires

  Lauren Squires has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor in the English department at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
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• Squires Paper in Journal Language in Society

  Lauren Squire’s paper “Enregistering internet language” appeared in the journal Language in Society.
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• Conference Presentation: Featural analysis and working memory retrieval in on-line parsing

  Miki Obata, Richard Lewis, Samuel Epstein, Brian Bartek and Julie Boland presented their paper “Featural analysis and working memory retrieval in on-line parsing:
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• Conference Presentations: New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV39)

  Graduate students Kevin McGowan and Lauren Squires presented at the NEW New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV39) conference Nov. 4-6, 2010. The conference was in San Antonio, TX, where they saw lots of genuine cowboy hats and the Alamo.
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• Conference Presentation: Feature Inheritance and Minimality

  Tim Chou presented a paper at the 12th SICOGG conference (Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar) at Konkuk University in Seoul, South Korea. The title of the paper is “Feature Inheritance and Minimality.”
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• Coetzee Award and Roundup

  Adapted from an announcement by Sally Thomason: [Andries Coetzee] … has been announced as the winner of the Linguistic Society of America’s Early Career Award...
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