Look Who’s Talking and Travelling
Meghan Sumner gave a talk at UCSC last week about “Perceptual adjustments to accented speech: The lack of variance problem.”
Joan Bresnan is now in residence for two weeks as an External Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, working with Benedikt Szmrecsányi on their project “Predicting Syntax in Space and Time”. She will be back on Nov 8.
We forgot to report! Alum Lucas Champollion joined with Uli Sauerland to give a presentation at the Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris (CSSP, September 23-25, 2009) and at the Moscow Syntax and Semantics conference (MOSS, October 9-11, 2009).