Today at noon for the Phonetics & Phonology Workshop, Rob Podesva and Kyuwon Moon will demo some of the Linguistics Lab’s new articulatory equipment, specifically equipment for recording and measuring airflow. The meeting will be in the Linguistics Lab (420-363). Please note the location change. A description of the demo follows.
“This demonstration provides an introduction to our lab’s new aerodynamic equipment. In today’s workshop, we will be focusing on airflow only (leaving pressure for another time). We will demonstrate how to record oral and nasal airflow to answer questions about stop releases and nasality. Participants will have an opportunity to formulate questions and use the equipment to answer them.”
This year’s 2012 undergraduate honors presentations will be today starting at 2:30 in the Greenberg room. The talks will be followed by an ice cream social hosted by our first year graduate students.
We hope to see you there!
2012 Honors student presenters:
Ellie Ash (2:30pm) “Minimal Word and Stylistic Matching in Mandarin Verb Phrases”
Samara Nichols (2:50pm) “Does Infant-Directed Speech Facilitate Word Recognition by 14-15 month olds?”
Stephanie Hironaka (3:10pm) “Voices of East Palo Alto Youth: Oral Narrative and Linguistic Competence Inside and Outside the Classroom Context”
Josh Falk (3:30pm) “The Phonology of Popular Rhymes”
Lydia Santos (3:50pm) “Grammatical Facial Expressions in ASL: Production by Non-Signers and Implications for Acquisition”
Isaac Bleaman (4:10pm) “Vernacularity and authenticity in Sholem Aleichem’s monologues: A variationist approach”
Christopher Potts, Dan Jurafsky, Jure Leskovec (Computer Science), and
Dan McFarland (Education) have just received a three-year NSF grant titled:
Bringing Sentiment Analysis and Social Network Analysis Together.
Congrats to all involved!
Come to Cubberley 114 on Tuesday at 6pm to hear George C. Bunch (UCSC) give a talk entitled, “Rethinking the Language and Literacy Demands of College and Career for Students in the New Mainstream: Academic and Professional Metagenres at One Community College”. Pizza and refreshments will be served!
As the US public school population becomes more linguistically diverse, and as higher education becomes increasingly necessary for 21st Century economic and civic life, a better understanding is needed of the linguistic challenges facing students as they pursue postsecondary education at the community college level, the first step in many students’ postsecondary endeavors and, unfortunately, often the last. Typical policy responses to the academic underachievement of language minority students include longer remedial course sequences in English and English as a Second Language (ESL) and increasingly stringent testing and placement requirements governing access to disciplinary courses. Arguing that such policies are based on a number of questionable assumptions, Read the rest of this entry »
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