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Graduate Program in Linguistics at the City University of New York

Events in 2008

January 17, 2008 (Thursday)

CUNY Conference on the syllable
See the conference website (NA)
Segal Theatre, The CUNY Graduate Center
9:30 AM - 5:15 PM
See the abstract here

January 18, 2008 (Friday)

CUNY Conference on the syllable
See the conference website (NA)
Segal Theatre, The CUNY Graduate Center
8:30 AM - 5:15 PM
See the abstract here

January 19, 2008 (Saturday)

CUNY Conference on the syllable
See the conference website (NA)
Segal Theatre, The CUNY Graduate Center
10:00 AM - 5:15 PM
See the abstract here

February 5, 2008 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

Language as kluge
Gary Marcus (New York University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM -
See the abstract here

February 7, 2008 (Thursday) - Colloquium

Producing Number Agreement
J. Kathryn Bock (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

February 14, 2008 (Thursday) - Professional Development Series

Ever Wonder What's in Those Letters?
Dr. Janet Dean Fodor with faculty/student panel (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
See the abstract here

February 19, 2008 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Nominality and genitive alignment in Austronesian languages
Daniel Kaufman (Cornell University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

February 26, 2008 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

Speech as signal for infants
Athena Vouloumanos (New York University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM -
See the abstract here

February 28, 2008 (Thursday) - Professional Development Series

Having Kids as a Graduate Student
Delores Buonasora (Graduate Center's Child Development Center)
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
See the abstract here

March 4, 2008 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Topic... Comment! (Everything you always wanted to know about syntax (*but were afraid to ask))
NA (NA)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

March 11, 2008 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

Practice session for CUNY-2008
Multiple speakers (CUNY & New York University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM -
See the abstract here

March 13, 2008 (Thursday) - Professional Development Series

How to Write an Abstract
Marcel den Dikken (CUNY)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
See the abstract here

March 18, 2008 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Structural Constraints on Exempt Anaphors
Jeffrey T. Runner (University of Rochester)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

March 20, 2008 (Thursday) - Colloquium

Properties of the Sociolinguistic Monitor
William Labov (University of Pennsylvania)
Room C198, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

March 25, 2008 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

Warren & Warren meet Marslen-Wilson: Phoneme restoration and speech shadowing for studying prosody in parsing
Iglika Stoyneshka, Janet Dean Fodor & Eva Fernández (Graduate Center & Queens College, CUNY)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM -
See the abstract here

April 1, 2008 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

The Personal Dative in Appalachian English as a Reflexive Pronoun
Anastasia Conroy (University of Maryland)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

April 3, 2008 (Thursday) - Colloquium

Bastard Tongues, a career in Creoles
Derek Bickerton (Professor Emeritus, University of Hawaii)
Room 4102, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

April 3, 2008 (Thursday)

Linguistics Department Open House
NA (NA)
Room 6417, the CUNY Graduate Center
1:30 PM -
See the abstract here

April 8, 2008 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

TBA
Kristin Syrett (Rutgers University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM -
See the abstract here

April 15, 2008 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

TBA
Omer Preminger (MIT)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

April 29, 2008 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

TBA
Phoevos Panagiotidis (University of Cyprus)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See the abstract here

May 1, 2008 (Thursday) - Colloquium

TBA
Phoevos Panagiotidis (University of Cyprus)
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

May 6, 2008 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

Acquisition of DP concord in French: Is it lexically or morphosyntactically based?
Phaedra Royle (Université de Montréal)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM -
See the abstract here

May 8, 2008 (Thursday) - Colloquium

TBA
David Pesetsky and Esther Torrego (MIT and UMass Boston)
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See the abstract here

May 23, 2008 (Friday)

Research Institute for the Study of Language in Urban Society (RISLUS) Research Forum 2008
NA (CUNY Graduate Center)
CUNY Graduate Center
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
See the abstract here

August 26, 2008 (Tuesday)

New student orientation
Linguistics Department (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 7102, CUNY Graduate Center
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
See more info here.

August 29, 2008 (Friday)

Dissertation Defense
Linguistics Department (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 7102, CUNY Graduate Center
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Yukiko Koizumi will defend her disseration, Processing the Not-Because Ambiguity in English: The Role of Pragmatics and Prosody.
This is an open defense; all are welcome!

September 2, 2008 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Two acquisition paradoxes: the effectiveness of the input
Jacqueline van Kampen (Utrecht Institute of Linguistics)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
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September 4, 2008 (Thursday)

Dissertation Defense
Linguistics Department (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 7102, CUNY Graduate Center
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Niesha White will defend her disseration, Increasing Efficacy in Academic English Instruction: Finding the Correct Balance between Contrastive Analysis Focus on Form and Sociolinguistic Awareness Raising.
This is a closed defense.

September 9, 2008 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

A linguistically motivated model for speed and pausing in animations of American Sign Language
Matt Huenerfauth (Queens College & Graduate Center, CUNY)
Room 7102, CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See more info here

September 11, 2008 (Thursday) - Professional Development Series

Getting started in research Part 1: Working in a Lab
Representatives from labs run by faculty in the Linguistics and Speech and Hearing (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 6417, CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
See more info here

September 16, 2008 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Open Mic Nite
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
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September 18, 2008 (Thursday) - Colloquium

The Subset Principle vs. Power Maximisation in Phonological Acquisition
Bert Vaux (University of Cambridge)
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See more info here

September 23, 2008 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

TBA
Cancelled
Room 7102, CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
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September 25, 2008 (Thursday) - Professional Development Series

Getting started in research Part 2: Conducting research in theoretical disciplines
Marcel den Dikken and others (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 6417, CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
See more info here

October 7, 2008 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

An Apparrent Number Case Constraint in Romanian. (with Andrew Nevins)
Oana Ciucivara (New York University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
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October 16, 2008 (Thursday) - Colloquium

Feature Reassembly in Second Language Acquisition
Donna Lardiere (Georgetown University)
Area of Interest: Second Language Acquisition
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See more info here

October 21, 2008 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

Auxiliary use in early Bulgarian and English wh-questions
Lidiya Tornyova (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 7102, CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See more info here

October 23, 2008 (Thursday) - Professional Development Series

What's up post-doc? The purpose of and preparation for a post-doc
Isabelle Barriere, Loraine Obler and others (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 6417, CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
See more info here

October 24, 2008 (Friday) - Dissertation Defense

The processing of complex syntax and its relation to second language reading comprehension
Gabriella Morvay (CUNY Graduate Center)
Thesis Room, CUNY Graduate Center
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
This is a closed defense.

October 28, 2008 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Syntactic restrictions on null subject licensing
Ivona Kucerova (University College, London)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
See more info here

October 30, 2008 (Thursday) - Colloquium

Chamorro Possessives at the Interface
Sandra Chung (UC Santa Cruz)
Area of Interest: Syntax/Semantics and Austronesian languages
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
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November 6, 2008 (Thursday) - Professional Development Series

How to become a Millionaire: Linguistics in private industry
Dr. Joan Bachenko (CEO, Deception Discovery Technologies)
Room 6417, CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
See more info here

November 13-15, 2008 (Thursday to Saturday)

18th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference
This is an all-day event.
See more info here

November 17, 2008 (Monday)

Dissertation Defense
The DP hypothesis through the lens of Japanese nominal collocation constructions
Kaori Furuya (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 7102, CUNY Graduate Center
10:00 AM - 12:00
This is an open defense; all are welcome!

November 18, 2008 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

Accurately recognizing grammatical dependencies in an asyntactic memory
Matthew Wagers (New York University & University of California, Santa Cruz)
Room 7102, CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
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November 20, 2008 (Thursday) - Professional Development Series

Taking and Passing your First QP
Round Table Members: Dr. Gita Martohardjono, Dr. Bill McClure, Dr. Dianne Bradley, Dr. Janet Dean Fodor, Ji Young Shim and Arden Collier (CUNY Graduate Center)
Room 6417, CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
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November 22, 2008 (Saturday)

CUNY / SUNY / NYU MiniConference
This is an all-day event.
See more info here

November 25, 2008 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

About something: towards a syntactic decomposition of polarity
Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (University College Brussels)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
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December 2, 2008 (Tuesday) - Psycholinguistics Supper

Eye movements of agrammatic aphasics in processing of non-canonical sentences in German
Irina Sekerina (College of Staten Island & Graduate Center, CUNY)
Room 7102, CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
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December 4, 2008 (Thursday) - Colloquium

The Unit of Linguistic Transmission
Charles Yang (University of Pennsylvania)
Area of Interest: First Language Acquisition/Learnability: The Unit of Linguistic Transmission
Room 6417, The CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM -
See more info here

December 9, 2008 (Tuesday) - Syntax Supper

Icelandic Imposters and the Proprial Article
Jim Wood (New York University)
Room 7102, The CUNY Graduate Center
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
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December 11, 2008 (Thursday) - Special Colloquium hosted by the Professional Development Series

Parameters of Variation in English Filler-Gap Constructions
Ivan Sag (Stanford)
Room 6417, CUNY Graduate Center
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
See more info here

December 12, 2008 (Friday)

End-of-semester party
GC Linguistics Program
Linguistics Program Lounge (7400), CUNY Graduate Center
4:30 PM -