Events this week (4/26 – 4/30)

This week is jam-packed with linguistic goodness! A quick synopsis: Wednesday, 4/28 8pm, 716 Philosophy Hall: Come discuss, debate, and meet new people at an open forum on Daniel Everett’s controversial research on the Piraha language, presented in conjunction with the Philosophy Forum. More information here. Thursday, 4/29 4pm, 1512 SIPA: NYU’s David Poeppel on [...]

4/30: William Labov

Dr. William Labov, widely regarded as the founder of the discipline of variationist sociolinguistics, is coming to speak this Friday, April 30th! He has been described as “an enormously original and influential figure who has created much of the methodology” of sociolinguistics. “Formation of Consensus in the Speech Community” William Labov, PhD Professor of Linguistics, [...]

This week: Julia Hirschberg and Trace Foundation lectures

This week is just packed with linguistics goodness: Julia Hirschberg will be speaking this Friday, 3/26, and there is a series of lectures at the Trace Foundation downtown, starting on Friday and continuing on Saturday. First, Professor Hirschberg’s lecture: Friday, 3/26 3pm Hamilton 709 Knowing When to Speak: Turn Management in Spoken Dialogue Systems Julia [...]

Overview

Dear linguists, Here’s wishing you a delightful spring break, wherever you’re going (or staying)! For your reading pleasure, here’s an overview of upcoming events: March 26-27: The Trace Foundation: “Minority Languages in Today’s Global Society: Perspectives on Language Standardization.” The lecture will focus on Tibetan, Kurdish, and Hungarian. March 26: Professor Julia Hirschberg, Computer Science [...]

ILA: Linguistics talk tomorrow at John Jay College

The International Linguistic Association presents a talk tomorrow by Michael Newman, Associate Professor of Linguistics at Queens College. How can you sound Asian in American English?: A dialect recognition and sociophonetic study of Korean and Chinese Americans’ native English In paired dialect identification tasks, differing only by speakers’ sex, more than 200 CUNY students were [...]

Upcoming Events

Friday, 11/13/09 7:30 pm Dinner at the Columbia Cottage. Join us for food and conversation – all are welcome! RSVP on Facebook. Friday, 11/20/09 3 pm (location TBA) A computational linguistics/natural language processing presentation by Nizar Habash of the Center for Computational Learning Systems: Automatic Diacritization of Arabic Text Arabic is written without certain orthographic [...]

11/5: Seiichi Makino

Tomorrow, Thursday 11/5, Seiichi Makino of Princeton University will give a lecture on translation and the loss of deep cognitive meaning in a text when it is taken from one language into another. The lecture will take place in the Satow Conference Room, Lerner Hall 5th floor, from 4pm – 5:30pm. Please note that although [...]

REMINDER: Mark Janse tomorrow

Mark Janse, Research Professor in Ancient & Asia Minor Greek at Ghent University, will present a lecture on the linguistic and social history of Cappadocia. Credit to suncodel for image. The lecture will take place tomorrow (11/4), at 4pm in Hamilton 703.

Coming events: October – December

10/30/09 2:00 PM Jennifer Pardo of the Human Communication Lab at Columbia will speak about her research. THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. 7:30 PM Dinner at the Columbia Cottage 11/4/09 4:10 PM Mark Janse of Ghent University will give a talk on Cappadocian Greek: “Dead or Alive? The Resurrection of Cappadocian (Asia Minor Greek).” 11/5/09 [...]

TOMORROW: Daniel Everett

Daniel Everett, chair of the Languages, Literatures and Cultures department at Illinois State University, will be speaking tomorrow in Lerner 555 at 3 pm. Professor Everett will discuss the culture and language of the Pirahã people of the Amazon, and how the unique features of Pirahã may contradict prevailing notions of the fundamental nature of [...]