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2012 Phonology Job Talks:
- Speaker: Anne Pycha (UMass Amherst)
Date & Time: Friday, January 20, 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Place: Education Building, room 433
Title:: Phonological signatures in words: Evidence from production and perception of diphthongs
- Speaker: Peter Graff (MIT)
Date & Time: Monday, January 23, 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Place: Education Building, room 431
Title:: Perceptual Dispersion in the Lexicon
- Speaker: Andries Coetzee (Michigan)
Date & Time: Friday, January 27, 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Place: Education Building, room 433
Title:: Grammar, Frequency and Speech Rate in Phonological Variation
- Speaker: Michael Becker (UMass Amherst)
Date & Time: Monday, January 30, 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Place: Education Building, room 216
Title:: Universal Grammar protects Initial Syllables
- Speaker: Morgan Sonderegger (Chicago)
Date & Time: Friday, February 3, 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Place: Education Building, room 434
Title:: Longitudinal phonetic and phonological dynamics on reality television
2011-2012 Colloquium Series Schedule:
Fall 2011
- Speaker: Chris Barker (NYU)
Date & Time: Friday, October 7 at 3:30 pm
Place: Education Building, room 211
Title: Deriving some reconstruction effects in a directly compositional semantics
- Speaker: Michael Friesner (UQAM)
Date & Time: Friday, October 21 at 3:30 pm
Place: Education Building, room 211
Title: Hispanophone? Anglophone?: Individual Variation and the Perceptibility of Ethnicity in Montreal French
- Speaker: Jeff Mielke (Ottawa)
Date & Time: Friday, November 18 at 3:30 pm
Place: Education Building, room 624
Title: Emergent phonology on small and large scales
- Speaker: Rick Nouwen (Utrecht/MIT)
Date & Time: Thursday, December 1 at 3:30 pm
Place: Rutherford Physics Building, room 114
Title: An outstanding theory of wh-exclamatives
- Speaker: Sharon Unsworth (Utrecht/Harvard)
Date & Time: Friday, December 2 at 3:30 pm
Place: Leacock Building, room 110
Title: What, Where and Why: On the role of input in bilingual language acquisition
Winter 2012
- Speaker: Jonathan Howell (McGill)
Date & Time: Friday, March 16 at 3:30 pm
Place: Leacock Building, room 232
Title: TBA
- Speaker: Tanya Slavin (McGill)
Date & Time: Friday, March 23 at 3:30 pm
Place: Leacock Building, room 14
Title: TBA
- Speaker: Jason Merchant (Chicago)
Date & Time: Friday, March 30 at 3:30 pm
Place: Education Building, room 433
Title: TBA
- Speaker: Ian Roberts (Cambridge)
Date & Time: Friday, April 13 at 3:30 pm
Place: Arts Building, room 150
Title: TBA
Recent and upcoming conferences and workshops
ETAP 2: Prosody in Context September 23–25, 2011
Phonology in the 21st Century May 7–9, 2011
Ling-Lunch talks
McGill's Ling-Lunch series provides a forum for students, professors, and visitors to present current research and work in progress in an informal setting. If you are interested in presenting, please contact this year's Ling-Lunch organizers, rachel [dot] borden [at] mail [dot] mcgill [dot] ca (Rachel Borden) and galit [dot] agmon [at] mail [dot] mcgill [dot] ca (Galit Agmon) to sign up for one of the available slots below.
All talks take place in the linguistics department room 117, Wednesdays from 12:00–1:00, unless otherwise noted. You are welcome to bring your lunch!
Winter 2012: TBA
Reading groups
McGill's Department of Linguistics regularly organizes informal reading groups on particular areas. All members of Montréal's linguistics community are invited to participate. The department is currently hosting the following reading groups:
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Experimental Research Group
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Syntax-Phonology Research Group
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Syntax-Semantics Research Group