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 [...]

4/29: Language and Cognition Seminar

Language and Cognition University Seminar #681 Meeting of April 29, 2010 “The relation(s) between linguistics and neurobiology” David Poeppel Department of Psychology and Neural Science New York University The enthusiasm for neurobiological research into the basis of language suggests that progress is being made regarding our understanding of how the brain computes with linguistic representations. [...]

2/17: Psychology colloquium

Columbia University and Barnard College present a PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM. Wednesday, February 17, 2010 4:10 PM 614 Schermerhorn Hall Prof. Jamie Pennebaker of the University of Texas will give a talk on psychology and language: “What Our Words Say About Us” There will be an informal reception immediately following the colloquium in the third floor [...]

Spring 2010 course list

The deadline to add a class for the Spring 2010 semester is looming (it’s this Friday, January 29)! If you’re still looking for that last awesome class to take, here is a list of the linguistics courses (and courses of interest to linguists) being offered this semester. This list is also posted on the Program [...]

BBC: Babies ‘cry in mother’s tongue’

The BBC News Health section reports today on new work by a group of German researchers who studied the cries of 60 babies born to families speaking French and German. The researchers claim that babies begin to pick up the nuances of their parents’ accents while still in the womb. This acquisition is reflected in [...]