A warm welcome to Tatiana Chernigovskaya, a Russian linguist, from St. Petersburg State University. She will be visiting Stanford next week, Mon to Wed. If any linguistic students or faculty would like to meet with her, please contact Tim Stearns directly, at stearns@stanford.edu. Her major research interests include: A. The cerebral basis for linguistic and cognitive functions; B. Theory of Mind; C. Artificial intelligence; D. Language evolution and acquisition; E. Mental lexicon organization; F. Language acquisition and pathology. For further info, take a look at her C.V.
Marta Recasens joined Stanford as a postdoctoral fellow in September 2011. She graduated in English Philology from the University of Barcelona in 2006, and completed her Ph.D. in Linguistics at the same university in 2010. Her thesis examined coreference resolution from different perspectives: theoretical foundations, corpus annotation, resolution systems, and system evaluation. She is interested in interdisciplinary approaches to linguistics, and her research areas include corpus-based and computational approaches to semantics and pragmatics, reference, discourse structure, conceptual blending, and in general the relationship between language and the world. She is currently working on overcoming the limitations of coreference resolution systems in linking lexically different phrases that corefer in a specific context.
For those who didn’t attend Philip Hofmeister’s tutorials on methods in experimental linguistics, he’s put the slides online at his website. Check out the slides here if you want to know about Experimental Design, and here if you want to know about Methods in Experimental Linguistics!
A truly astounding number of Stanford linguists will be presenting at NWAV this weekend. Here’s the list!
- Eric Acton and Christopher Potts: “That straight talk”: demonstratives, solidarity, and Sarah Palin
- Sarah Bunin Benor: How synagogues became shuls: The changing role of yiddish in the linguistic repertoire of American Jews
- Kathryn Campbell-Kibler: “Measuring implicit dialect awareness using the IAT”
- Kathryn Campbell-Kibler and Abby Walker: “Vocalic accommodation in a cross dialectal shadowing task”
- Kathryn Campbell-Kibler: discussant, panel on Sexuality in language: Analyzing complex social practice
- Renee Blake, Cara Shousterman, Luiza Newlin-Lukowicz and Lindsay Kelley: A study on ethnicity: Examining feature co-occurrence to understand the linguistic behavior of black New Yorkers
- Penny Eckert: The future of variation studies
All-Star Plenary Panel: The Origins, Development, and Future of NWAV and Variation Analysis
- Roey Gafter: Pharyngeal beauty and depharyngealized geek: Performing ethnicity and class on Israeli reality TV
- Katherine Geenberg: “The people who say tshtsh”: Listeners’ social judgments of Cairene Arabic strong palatalization
- Katherine Greenberg and Rebecca Greene: Culturally-inherited ideology and individual experience in speech perception
- Lauren Hall-Lew: English and Asian ethnicities in San Francisco
- Sakiko Kajino and Kyuwon Moon: Voice quality variation of Japanese porn actresses: The stylistic construction of sexual sweetness
- Robin Melnick: Towards a singular measure of varietal similarity: The Structural Concordance Criterion
- Robert J. Podesva and Andrew Wong: On whether ‘bullying’ indexes sexuality, and whether it ought to
- John R. Rickford: Relativizer omission, the independence of linguistic and social constraints, and variationist “comparative reconstruction”
- John R. Rickford: discussant, All-Star Plenary Panel: The Origins, Development, and Future of NWAV and Variation Analysis
- Tyler Schnoebelen: Affective patterns using words and emoticons in Twitter
- Devyani Sharma: Incremental change in substrate effects in London Asian English
- Devyani Sharma: Stylistic activation in ethnolinguistic repertoires
- Laura Staum Casasanto, Tom Gijssels and Daniel Casasanto: Isolating the role of language in linguistic accommodation
- Julie Sweetland: “Students will be able to explain why dialect matters”: Exploring novice teachers’ goals for language awareness
- Janneke Van Hofwegen: The influence of peer speech on AAE vernacularity: A longitudinal approach
- Janneke Van Hofwegen and Reuben Stob: A longitudinal analysis of the relationship between reading and AAE vernacularity
- Andrew Wong: Difference in context: The meanings of orthographic variation
- Qing Zhang: The enregisterment of a new Mandarin style: An integrated approach to linguistic innovation
- Jacquelyn Rahman: African American female comedy: A linguistic insurrection
- Allison Shapp and Renee Blake: Sociolinguistic variation in American English adverbial -ly
- Rebecca Starr: The influence of teacher and classmate variation on language acquisition in dual-language immersion classrooms
- Kara Becker: The social meaning(s) of raised BOUGHT in New York City: A perceptual approach
- Patrick Callier: The stylistic covariates of DH-stopping on Twitter
- Lal Zimman: Performing the gendered voice: Variability in the realization of /s/ among transmasculine speakers
And hot on the heels of the SymSys presentations next Thursday, Stanford Psychology of Language Tea! will take place in the Greenberg Room at 4:40 (get there at 4:30 for snacks). This week they’ll be hosting Cora Kim (Freie Universität Berlin).The title: “Language’s role for theory of mind – disentangling the developmental details.” See you there!
