Three department members will be speaking at the Georgetown Linguistics Society meeting, Feb 12-14, Washington, DC. The conference topic is “Sound, structure, meaning: Explorations at the interface:”
Bronwyn Bjorkman: The Syntax of Syncretism.
Patrick Jones: Accounting for the Distribution of -ire within the verbal system of Kinande.
Shigeru Miyagawa: Causatives and the Syntactic Nature of Words (invited talk).MIT will be represented at the Workshop on Computational Modelling of Sound Pattern Acquisition, held at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Feb. 13-14, by Adam Albright, whose talk is “Well-formedness across the word: Modeling markedness interactions,” and by recent alumnus Giorgio Magri, who is presenting “An online model of the ‘early stage’ of the acquisition of phonology.”
Martin Hackl will be giving an invited talk at the Conference on Linguistic Evidence 2010: Empirical, theoretical and computational perspectives, held in Tübingen, Feb. 11-13. The title of his talk is “Processing quantifiers.”
Three students presented talks at the Berkeley Linguistics Society meeting (BLS 36) this past weekend, held February 6-7 in Berkeley, CA:
Young Ah Do: Satisfying output-output faithfulness with excessive morphology: Evidence from Korean acquisition.
Hrayr Khanjian: Negative concord in Western Armenian.
Yasutada Sudo: Person restrictions in Uyghur indexical shifting.Bronwyn Bjorkman presented a talk entitled “The morphological basis of default-to-opposite stress in Nez Perce” at the 15th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) held in Ottawa, Feb 5-7.
David Pesetsky and Jonah Katz gave a talk called “The identity thesis for language and music” on December 11, 2009, at Sounds and Structures: A workshop on relations between language and music, held in Berlin.