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• Undergrad alum to be Bloch Fellow at Linguistic Institute

  Troy Messick receives prestigious Bloch Fellowship Read More

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• Michigan Linguistics at "Workshop on Sound Change Actuation"

  Satellite meeting of the 49th Chicago Linguistic Society Read More

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• Welcome to Elliott Levinson-Brennan!

  Jon and Lisa welcome their baby boy! Read More

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• Several international presentations by John Swales

  Swales in the UK and Taiwan Read More

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• What comes after UM?

  Where (some of) our graduating seniors are off to Read More

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• Two international presentations by Marlyse Baptista

  19th Hispanistentag and University of Amsterdam Read More

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• Diane Larsen-Freeman at Carnegie Mellon University

  The Goal of Modern Language Instruction Read More

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• Annual board meeting of "Language Learning"

  Board meeting of"Language Learning" held in Ann Arbor early in April Read More

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• Mike Opper at Illinois Language and Linguistics Society meeting

  Word Length Flexibility in Nuosu Yi Read More

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• Ezra Keshet at 37th Penn Linguistics Colloquium

  Sloppy Identity with no Binding Read More

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• Journal Club looks backward and forward

  Reflecting on one year of successful meetings of the Journal Club Read More

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• Capstone Poster Session: Documenting Mandinka

  Come learn what students did in the capstone senior seminar Read More

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• Will Nediger receives Rackham Centennial Fellowship

  Supporting research on Binding Condition C Read More

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• UM Linguists in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

  The time course of perception of coarticulation Read More

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• Documentary on alum Mark Sicoli's work on the whistled language of Oaxaca

  Whistles in the Mist: Whistled Speech in Oaxaca Read More

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• A successful MidPhon at UM

  Mid-continental phoneticians and phonologists converged on Ann Arbor Read More

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• Colloquium: Andrew Wedel on the evolution of phoneme inventories

  Lexical competition and the evolution of phoneme inventories Read More

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• Six Linguistic Undergrad Majors Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa

  Ellen Huntley, Molly Lockwood, Michelle Morgan, Frances Morton, Anthony Natoci and Dana Van Oostenburg Read More

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• 2013 Weinberg Cognitive Science Symposium

  Rethinking rationality and its bounds Read More

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• Robin Queen at University of Wisconsin

  Turkish-German Intonation Patterns: Sociolinguistics in contact with Intonational Phonology Read More

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• Tim Chou and Sujeewa Hettiarachchi at FASAL 3

  On Sinhala Involitives and Case Marking Read More

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• Jeff Heath gives keynote at "Linguistics in the Gulf-4"

  Early Moroccan Arabic as a pidgin/creole Read More

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• Diane Larsen-Freeman in the "Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics"

  Three Michigan faculty with entries in the "Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics" Read More

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• Registration for the 2013 Linguistic Institute now live!

  Already nearly 200 participants! Read More

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• Carmel O'Shannessy at International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation

  On the role of children in language preservation and creation Read More

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• David Medeiros in Lingua

  On VP-remnant movement in Hawaiian Read More

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• Mid-Phon 18 this weekend

  A weekend on non-stop phonetics and phonology! Read More

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• Graduate students win competitive fellowships

  Kudos to Tridha Chatterjee and Harim Kwon Read More

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• Andries Coetzee at USC

  Phonological Variation: Grammar, Usage Frequency, Speech Rate and Lexicality Read More

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• Nick Ellis in the "Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics"

  Two of our current faculty with encyclopedia entries about them! Read More

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• Colloquium this week: Prof. Eric Russell Webb

  ‘Your /y/ is so gay, but your /s/ is so straight’: Exploring the phonetic encoding of orientation Read More

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• Teaching accolades for Linguistic GSI's

  Two GSI's receive "Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Awards" Read More

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• Kevin McGowan to Stanford University

  Kevin accepted three-year postdoc position at Stanford Read More

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• Three graduate students progress to candidacy

  Mike Opper, Sujeewa Hettiarachchi and Jae-Young Shim finish QRP's Read More

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• SoConDi: Hayley Heaton on Lebanese English in the American South

  Lebanese English in the American South: Dialect accommodation and the recession of substrate Read More

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• HistLing/SoConDi: Sally Thomason on the Pacific Northwest

  Language history and the Pacific Northwest linguistic area Read More

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• Andries Coetzee in "Natural Language and Linguistic Theory"

  Frequency biases in phonological variation Read More

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• John Swales gets entry in "The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics"

  Alum Betty Samraj writes article about John Swales's contribution to the field Read More

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• Jon Brennan in "Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience Forum"

  Modeling competence and performance effects in sentence processing with a large-scale natural text Read More

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• Phondi: Jon Yip on gestural-coordination Greek consonant clusters

  Linguistics effects on gestural-coordination timing in Greek CC sequences Read More

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• Colloquium this week: Professor Ezra Keshet

  Two Effects of Context on Truth­Conditional Meaning Read More

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• Syntax/Semantics Discussion Group this week: Tim Chou and Sujeewa Hettiarachchi on Sinhala

  On Sinhala Involitives and Case Marking Read More

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• First 2013 meeting of Journal Club

  McConnel-Ginet on "Words in the World" Read More

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• SoCondDi: Roland Kouassi on Urban Talk in Post-Colonial Africa

  Fulbright visiting professor Roland Kouassi to talk about the unique unban language of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire Read More

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• Linguistics faculty service outside of the Department

  Linguistics faculty very active in outside service Read More

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• Sam Epstein named as Thurnau Professor

  Well-deserved recognition for his dedication to undergraduate education Read More

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• Sally Thomason receives "Lifetime Achievement Award" from Pidgin and Creole Society

  Well-deserved recognition for Sally Thomason Read More

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• Michigan hosting Mid-Phon 18

  18th Mid-Contitental Phonetics and Phonology Workshop Read More

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• Marlyse Baptista at the University of Pennsylvania

  Testing the convergence hypothesis in creole genesis Read More

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• Linguistic Institute Information Session: Friday (2/8), 4 pm

  Come learn about opportunities to volunteer at the Institute Read More

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• John Swales presents plenary at TESOL SUDAN via video-conference

  Graduate students and junior academics in a changed world: implications for EAP Read More

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• Phondi this Friday: San Duanmu on "word stretching" in Chinese

  When Words Are Too Short: Phonology, Morphology, and Semantics in Stretching Word Length Read More

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• Robin Queen in Language

  Turkish-German bilinguals and their intonation: Triangulating evidence about contact-induced language change Read More

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• Colloquium this week: Professor Lisa Levinson (Oakland University)

  Adding Causativity: (Anti-)Causatives Across Languages and Levels of Representation Read More

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• Tim Chou in Lingua

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• Andries Coetzee at Old World Conference in Phonology

  On the origin of voicing co-ocurrence restrictions Read More

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• Jon Brennan receives competitive MCubed award

  Neural Coherence at Rest and During Language Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorder Read More

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• Carmel O'Shannessy in "Journal of Language Contact"

  On verb integration in mixed languages Read More

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• Andries Coetzee at Northwestern University

  On speech rate and phonological variation Read More

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• Michigan at the LSA

  UM Linguistics well represented at LSA Annual Meeting in Boston Read More

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• Robin Queen in the Provost's Seminar on Teaching

  Increasing Student Interaction in a Large Course via Blogging Read More

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• Andries Coetzee at UC Santa Cruz

  On the Origin of Voicing Co-Occurrence Restrictions: The Case of Afrikaans Read More

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• Carmel O'Shannessy at the University of Chicago

  The role of multiple sources in the creation of novel formal categories in a new mixed language: Light Warlpiri as a case study Read More

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• Ezra Keshet at "American Pragmatics" conference

  Coherence and Donkey Anaphora Read More

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• Plenary address by Acrisio Pires at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium

  Syntactic competence, acquisition and change: The nature of ultimate attainment Read More

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• Michigan Syntacticians at "Formal Approaches to Creole Studies"

  Minimalism meets Creole Studies Read More

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• Talk on the contact between French and Wolof in Senegal (Tuesday, 12/4)

  "Africa History and Anthropology Workshop" presents Professor Fiona Mc Laughlin (University of Florida) Read More

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• Phondi: Kuniko Nielsen on the development of phonological representations

  Developmental changes in phonological representation: an investigation using the imitation paradigm Read More

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• Robin Queen at Wayne State's "Language and Immigration Group"

  Intonation and language contact on the example of Turkish German bilinguals Read More

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• Alum Hamid Ouali at Wayne State University, November 30

  On the validity of the feature inheritance approach to agreement Read More

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• Professors Swales and Queen in the "Language and Rhetorical Studies" Group

  Linguists featured in English Language and Literature Department's special interest group Read More

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• Phondi: Mike Opper on English Compound Truncations

  What is the derivational history of "scifi" and "sitcom"? Read More

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• Corpus Linguistics Workshop at Michigan this Saturday (12/1)

  Registration required! Read More

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• SoConDi: Hayley Heaton on Southern Speech in TV shows

  As Seen on TV: An Acoustic Analysis of the Portrayal of American Southern Dialect in Fictional Television Programs Read More

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• Deborah Keller-Cohen at Gerontological Society of America

  Sensitivity to Listener Needs and Social Relations in Older Adults Read More

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• A busy speaking schedule for Diane Larsen-Freeman this fall

  No fewer than five invited and keynote addresses Read More

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• Jon Brennan at Neurobiology of Language Conference

  Spectro-temporal correlates of rapid lexical access during auditory lexical decision Read More

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• Colloquium this week: Professor Rick Lewis

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• Carmel O'Shannessy on doing fieldwork in Northern Australia

  Documenting a new mixed language in Lajamanu Read More

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• Jon Yip presents at the ASA

  Linguistic Effects on the Timing of Gestural Coordination in Modern Greek CC Sequences Read More

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• Sally Thomason on the joys (and perils) of linguistic fieldwork

  Why someone who loves words will struggle to finish a dictionary ... Read More

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• HistLing: Bailey Doolittle on diachronic syntax

  Learn more about predicate nominals in Middle English Read More

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• Michigan Linguistics well-represented at NWAV 41

  Four UM Linguists presented at NWAV 41 Read More

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• Phondi: Yan Dong on elastic word length in Chinese

  Words that vary in length what Google Ngram can tell us about them Read More

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• Linguistics Open House this Monday!

  Come learn about the options of majoring/minoring in linguistics Read More

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• Journal Club Meeting: On the reliability of linguistic data

  Come learn about the recent contentious debate on data validity in syntax/semantics Read More

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• Film Screening: Spontaneous Language Creation in El-Sayed

  A new sign language in a small Bedouin village. Including Q&A with the director. Read More

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• SoConDi: Professor Karla Mallette on a lingua franca for the Mediterranean

  Q&A session with Professor Mallette about communication in the medieval Mediterranean Read More

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• Jeff Heath explores new frontiers in language documentation

  Using a multi-media approach to the language documentation Read More

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• Phondi: Nick Henriksen on the Syntax/Phonology interface in Spanish

  Left-periphery effects in wh-questions Read More

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• Linguistics Open House

  Come learn more about majoring/minoring in Linguistics Read More

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• Phondi: Andries Coetzee on Afrikaans obstruent voicing and sound change

  Andries presents on a new consonant co-occurrence restriction in his native language Read More

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• Syn/Sem Discussion: Marisa Boston on the Syntax and Semantics of WatsonMD

  Come learn about the syntax and semantics of the Jeopardy! winning computer Watson. Read More

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• A Linguist Outside of Linguistics: Professor Rick Lewis

  Meet Professor Rick Lewis, Professor of Psychology, with a courtesy appointment in Linguistics Read More

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• HistLing: Bill Baxter on reconstructing Old Chinese

  Bill talks about his and Laurent Sagart's forthcoming Oxford University Press book on Old Chinese Read More

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• Jon Brennan at BIOMAG 2012

  Jon presented on joint work with colleagues from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Read More

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• SoConDi: Sally Thomason on Language Endangerment

  What is lost (or not) when a language is lost? Read More

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• Acrisio Pires presents at "International Workshop on Heritage Languages"

  Acrisio gave an invited presentation at workshop in Germany Read More

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• Phondi: Jon Yip on ultrasound, lip cameras and Greek consonant clusters

  Jon presents on results of his dissertation research Read More

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• Tridha Chatterjee in the field

  Tridha collected data on Bengali-English code-switching in India Read More

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• Second meeting of the Linguistics Journal Club

  Poplack on syntax, convergence and language contact Read More

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• Sally Thomason honored by Yale University

  Sally receives prestigious Wilbur Cross Medal form the Yale Graduate School Alumni Association Read More

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• Ljiljana Progovac presents at Syntax Support Group this Friday

  Absolutives, Exocentrics and Unaccusatives from an Evolutionary Angle Read More

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• Q&A with Prof. Alison Cornish in SoConDi this week

  Come learn about translation in Dante's Italy Read More

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• Colloquium this week: Prof. Loraine Obler

  Can you loose your first language? Read More

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• Joseph Tyler at Qatar University

  Two Michigan alumns now teaching at Qatar University Read More

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• Alumni Focus: Dr. Loraine K. Obler

  Alumn returns to deliver Rackham Centennial Lecture Read More

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• Linguistics visit Hillel Day School in Metropolitan Detroit

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• Linguistics receives Diversity Grant from Rackham

  Promoting diversity in graduate education Read More

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• Successful first meeting of Journal Club

  Well attended, stimulating discussion Read More

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• Harim Kwon presents at Societas Linguistica Europaea, Stockholm

  Adaptation of English Word-final Plosives into Korean: Effects of English Experience Read More

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• A productive year thus far for Nick Ellis

  Multiple publications, talks and more Read More

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• Tridha Chatterjee at Sociolinguistics Symposium 19 in Berlin

  Bengali English Codeswitching: A focus on the third verb in bilingual compound verbs Read More

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• Marlyse Baptista at the Society of Caribbean Linguistics

  Presentation on "Effects of substratal transfer in creole genesis" Read More

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• Ben Fortson update from Berlin

  Ben Fortson is spending his sabbatical at the Free University, Berlin Read More

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• First meeting of the new Journal Club (Friday 9/28, 4 pm)

  Join us in a discussion of Pierrehumbert's view on mental representation. Read More

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• Yan Dong at the International Association for Chinese Linguistics

  On merging tones in Dalian Mandarin. Read More

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• Phondi Meeting: San Duanmu presents

  Come learn about "Phonology and the Chinese Lexicon" Read More

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• Harim Kwon receives award at Acoustical Society meeting

  Harim awarded "Best Student Paper" at meeting of Acoustical Society Read More

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• Institute Workshops now online

  More than twenty workshops on a variety of linguistic topics will happen concurrently with the Linguistic Institute. Read More

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• Carmel O'Shannessy on the conference circuit this summer

  Presentations at Stanford and the University of Freiburg Read More

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• Alumni Focus: Professor Alicia Beckford Wassink

  Professor Wassink graduated with a PhD from our Department in 1999. She is currently on the Linguistics faculty at the University of Washington. Read about her many exciting activities. Read More

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• New Faculty Member: Jon Brennan

  Michigan Linguistics adds neurolinguist to faculty Read More

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• John Swales 2012-roundup, thus far

  Several presentations and a book! Read More

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• Tim Chou at the North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics

  Another one of Tim's conference presentations over the summer. Read More

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• Ezra Keshet to perform with Ann Arbor Civic Theater

  Anything Goes - September 13-16 Read More

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• Epstein, Kitahara and Seely in print again

  New chapter in the Walter de Gruyter "Studies in Generative Grammar" series. Read More

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• A Linguist Outside of Linguistics: Professor Anne Curzan

  Meet Professor Anne Curzan, Professor of English, with a courtesy appointment in Linguistics. Read More

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• Michigan at "GLOW in Asia IX"

  Michigan linguists dominate "GLOW in Asia IX" Read More

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• Meet our new graduate students

  We are welcoming five new students to our PhD program this academic year. Welcome to Dave, Kenneth, Hayley, Kate and Sagan. Read More

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• Keshet paper in Journal of Semantics

  Ezra Keshet's latest paper, "Focus on Conditional Conjunction" appeared online May 28, 2012 as a Journal of Semantics Advanced Access paper. (Click title for details.) Read More

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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.) Read More

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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.) Read More

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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” Read More

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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. Read More

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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! Read More

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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! Read More

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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! Read More

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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. Read More

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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) Read More

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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. Read More

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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.) Read More

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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. Read More

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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. Read More

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• John Swales (Emeritus) update

  John Swales writes in with his plans for the semester. (Click title for details.) Read More

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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.) Read More

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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.) Read More

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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. Read More

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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. Read More

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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. Read More

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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) Read More

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• Julie Boland in the News

  Prof. Julie Boland appears in the latest LSA Magazine. Click the title for details. Read More

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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. Read More

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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.) Read More

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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.) Read More

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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.) Read More

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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. Read More

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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. Read More

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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.) Read More

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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.) Read More

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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.) Read More

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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.) Read More

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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.) Read More

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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. Read More

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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. Read More

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• John Swales (Emeritus) update

  John Swales writes in with the "2011 Activities of a retired Professor of Linguistics." Read More

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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. Read More

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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. Read More

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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. Read More

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• Alumni News Roundup

  News on recent grads Damon Tutunjian, Anna Babel, Hamid Ouali, and others. Read More

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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. Read More

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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. Read More

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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. Read More

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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: Read More

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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. Read More

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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. Read More

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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. Read More

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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. Read More

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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. Read More

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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... Read More

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• David Medeiros receives Predoctoral Fellowship

  Congratulations to Linguistics graduate student David Medeiros for receiving a competitive Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship: Read More

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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. Read More

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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... Read More

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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.” Read More

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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. Read More

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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. Read More

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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... Read More

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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. Read More

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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. Read More

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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: Read More

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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. Read More

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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.” Read More

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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... Read More

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