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Stanford linguists at LSA

As we immodestly pointed out in last week’s post about LSA practice talks, there will be a large number of our department colleagues and alumni at LSA 2013. As was immodestly tallied at the practice talk session the other day, current Stanford affiliations account for about 20% of the entire LSA program!

Here’s the full list of Stanford linguists (or, if we may submit an appropriately timed Hobbit-themed pun, Stanflings) who will be presenting in Boston in January:

Stanford linguists, past and present, at LSA 2012

  • Eric Acton: Gender differences in the duration of filled pauses in North American English
  • Samuel R. Bowman: Seto vowel harmony and neutral vowels (poster)
  • Thomas Brochhagen (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf), Elizabeth Coppock (U Gothenburg): Only, at least, at most, more, and less
  • Jeremy Calder: Theories of syllabification in Nuxalk: hints from text-setting
  • Jeremy Calder, Penelope Eckert, Julia Fine, Robert Podesva: The social conditioning of rhythm: the case of post-tonic lengthening
  • Kathryn Campbell-Kibler (OSU), Amber Torelli (OSU): “Bitch, I’m from Cleveland, you have the accent”: tracking enregisterment on Twitter
  • Leila Glass: Analyzing epistemic must like deontic must derives indirectness requirement
  • Jason Grafmiller: Object-Experiencer verbs as true transitive verbs (poster)
  • Alessandro Jaker (Goyatiko Language Society): Weledeh verb classes: from agglutination to fusion (poster)
  • Tom Juzek (Oxford): Comparing conventional and alternative normalisations for acceptability judgements
  • Reiko Kataoka, Meghan Sumner: Prestige effect on perceptual
    learning of fronted /u/
  • Naira Khan: Linear precedence and binding in Bangla
  • Chigusa Kurumada, Meredith Brown (U Rochester), Michael K. Tanenhaus (U Rochester): Rapid adaptation in the pragmatic interpretation of contrastive prosody
  • Seung Kyung Kim: Interaction of social categories and a linguistic variable in perception (poster)
  • Bonnie Krejci: Antireflexivization as a causativization strategy
  • Kyuwon Moon, Rebecca L. Starr (CMU), Jinsok Lee (Georgetown): The role of AAE and Anglicized Korean in the construction of authenticity in Korean Popular HipHop
  • John Rickford: discussant of Awareness and Control in Sociolinguistic Research Symposium
  • John Rickford, Jens Ludwig (U Chicago/Nat’l Bureau Econ Research): Neighborhood moves and sociolinguistic mobility in five American cities
  • Stephanie Shih: The similarity basis for consonant-tone interaction as Agreement by Correspondence
  • Robert J. Podesva, Jeremy Calder, Hsin-Chang Chen, Annette D’Onofrio, Isla Flores Bayer, Seung Kyung Kim, Janneke Van Hofwegen: The status of the California Vowel Shift in a non-coastal, non-urban community
  • Gregory Scontras (Harvard), Peter Graff (MIT), Tami Forrester (MIT), Noah D. Goodman: Context sensitivity in collective predication (poster)
  • Laura Staum Casasanto (Stony Brook), Stefan Grondelaers (Radboud U Nijmegen), Roeland van Hout (Radboud U Nijmegen), Jos J. A. van Berkum (U Utrecht), Peter Hagoort (MPI Psycholinguistics): Got Class? Language attitudes and symbolic representations of social class
  • Meghan Sumner, Reiko Kataoka: I heard you but didn’t listen: listeners encode words differently depending on a speaker’s accent
  • Marisa C. Tice, Michael C. Frank: Preschool children spontaneously anticipate turnend boundaries (poster)
  • Nyoman Udayana (UT Austin), John Beavers (UT Austin): Middle voice in Indonesian
  • Abby Walker (OSU), Christina García (OSU), Yomi Cortés (U of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez), Kathryn Campbell-Kibler (OSU): The global and local meanings of /s/ to Puerto Rican listeners/speakers (poster)
  • Abby Walker (OSU), Jane Mitsch (OSU), Shontael Wanjema (OSU), Katie Carmichael (OSU), Kathryn Campbell-Kibler (OSU): Performing gender: a sociophonetic analysis of a gender mimicry task
  • Shontael Wanjema (OSU), Katie Carmichael (OSU), Abby Walker (OSU), Kathryn Campbell-Kibler (OSU): New methods in corpus development: integrating teaching and research through in-course modules.

Undergraduate Research Symposium: today at 3:30

Our undergraduate research interns from this past summer will be presenting their summer work this afternoon in the colloquium slot: 3:30pm in the Greenberg Room (460-126). The scheduled talks are:

  • Melissa Carvell: Linguistics in the Comics: Designing a Curriculum for a Freshmen Introductory Seminar.
  • CC Chiu: Experiencing AAVE through the Moving To Opportunity Study
  • Miriam Connor: Crowd-sourced semantics: Investigating multiple meaning via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
  • Julia Fine: The Social Conditioning of Rhythm: Post-tonic Lengthening, Schwas, and Stop Releases
  • Hanzhi Zhu: Programmatically Analyzing the Do-Be Construction

The symposium will be followed by our first social of the year, hosted by our new first years.

Diploma Ceremony on the 17th

You are all invited to the Linguistics Department Diploma Ceremony, at 12:30pm on Saturday, June 17th. The ceremony will be held at Koret Park, behind the School of Education, with a reception to follow. We will be honoring all of our graduates at the BA, Masters, and PhD level. Come celebrate their achievements with us!

PhD in Linguistics
Uriel Cohen Priva
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe
Scott Grimm
Robert Munro
Tyler Schnoebelen
Rebecca Starr
MA in Linguistics
Isla Flores-Bayer
Richard Futrell
Stacy Lewis
BA in Linguistics
Ellie Ash (honors)
Isaac Bleaman
Miriam Connor
Derek Czajka
Josh Falk (honors)
Anna Garbier
Stephanie Hironaka (honors)
Devon Holman
Samara Nichols (honors)
Lydia Santos (honors)

Linguistics Undergrads Rock Sterling Awards

Sesquikudos to Isaac Bleaman, Miriam Connor, and Joshua Falk who each received J. E. Wallace Sterling awards for being among the top 25 graduating students at Stanford in terms of academic distinction. Sterling awardees get to invite a high school teacher and a Stanford faculty mentor to the event, and Isaac, Miriam and Joshua invited John Rickford, Penny Eckert, and Arto Anttila respectively as their linguistics mentors. Eric Tuan, a Music major and Linguistics minor, also received a Sterling Award, making this the best showing Linguistics undergraduates have ever achieved at the annual Wallace Sterling event.

Undergrad Honors Presentations TODAY!

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”