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Department NewsThe Wordovators project. led by Janet Pierrehumbert, and the Wordovators team will be funded by a U.S.$2.7 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation. ++++++++++++++ Dear friends and colleagues, ++++++++++++++++++++++ Gregory Ward has been selected for the 2011-2012 ASG Faculty and Administrator Honor Roll. Irene Sakk was recently presented with a Service Excellence Award. Chun Chan has been named a finalist for this year's Employee of the Year award. Gregory Ward is the recipient of the E. LeRoy Hall Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences for the academic year 2011-2012 The following papers have been presented at Great Lakes Expo for Experimental and Formal Undergraduate Linguistics (GLEEFUL) 2012 at Michigan State University, April 21, 2012.
Elizabeth Allyn Smith accepted a job offer Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM). John Evar Strid (Ph.D. 2006) accepted a job offer as Assistant Professor of Literacty Education at Northeaster Illinois University. Magdalena Kaufmann accepted a job offer at Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut. The following paper will be published:
The following poster will be presented at 19th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Meeting
The following paper will be presented at 30th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics:
The following papers will be published:
David Potter received a scholarship to attend the North American Summer School of Logic, Language and Information in June. The following papers will be presented at Semantics and Linguistic Theory
The following papers and posters have been presented at CUNY 2012 sentence processing conference:
The paper "Doran, Ryan, Gregory Ward, Meredith Larson, Yaron McNabb, and Rachel E. Baker. (2012) “A Novel Experimental Paradigm for Distinguishing Between ‘What is Said’ and ‘What is Implicated’,” to appear in Language 88." has been picked up by a couple of scientific news outlet:
Gregory Ward has been invited to speak at the Workshop on Information, Discourse Structure, and Levels of Meaning (IDL 12) next October in Barcelona, Spain. The following article has been published:
Gregory Ward has been invited to give a talk:
Gregory Ward has been invited to serve as on the following editorial board:
Gregory Ward was invited to teach at the 2013 LSA Linguistic Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Stefan Kaufmann has been invited to serve as associate editor of The following works have been published and presented:
Janet Pierrehumbert made a cameo appearance on the Today show discussing Janet Pierrehumbert has been elected as a fellow of the Linguistic Society of America Gregory Ward was honored with the "Patience of Job" Award at the 2011 LSA Linguistic Institute. The following poster has been accepted for presentation at the 52nd
The following posters have been accepted for presentation at
The following posters have been accepted for presentation at Testing
Janet Pierrehumbert will be an invited speaker on the theme Altmann, Pierrehumbert, and Motter's recent article "Niche as a Gregory Ward has been invited to serve on the editorial board of Journal of Pragmatics. Gregory Ward has been invited to give a seminar as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at theUniversity of Vigo in June. Gregory Ward has been invited to deliver a plenary address at the Western Conferenceon Linguistics (WECOL 2011) in November. Janet Pierrehumbert has been appointed to the Edward Sapir Professorship Kristen Syrett (PhD, 2007) has accepted a position as assistant professor in the Linguistics Department at Rutgers University. Midam Kim will give an invited talk on "Phonetic convergence after perceptual exposure to native and nonnative speech" at the meting of Language Processing Brown Bag at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on March 17, 2011. The following paper has been published:
The following papers have been accepted for presentation:
Jordana Heller and Charlotte Vaughn have been awarded fellowships for the Janet Pierrehumbert delivered a plenary address entitled "Example based Stefan Kaufmann has been invited to speak at a symposium in honor of Judea Melissa Baese won the Acoustical Society of America Speech Jen Hay (Ph.D 2000) has been selected as one of the inaugural recipients of the New Zealand 'Rutherford Discovery Fellowship'.
Melissa Baese-Berk has been offered at postdoctoral position at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language in San Sebastian, Spain. Xiaoju Zheng and Janet Pierrehumbert "The Effects of Prosodic Prominence and Serial Position on Duration Perception" has been accepted for publication in The Jounal of Acoustical Society of America. The following papers have been accepted for presentation at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society
The following papers have been accepted for presentation at The 85th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America 2011 in Pittsburgh
The following papers and posters have been accepted for presentation at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 2010, at University of York, York, UK:
Jennifer Alexander has been offered a posdoc at Simon Frazer University in Burnaby, British Columbia.
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Rachel Baker has accepted the position of Director Applied Linguistics Research and Development at EF Education First. Tyler Kendall accepted a position as an assistant
professor The following papers have been accepted for presentation at the 22nd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-22) , Harvard University, May 2010:
The following papers have been accepted for presentation at the 46th Annual Meeting of the ChicagoLinguistic Society, University of Chicago, April 2010:
Ken Konopka gave an invited talk "Vowels of Mexican Heritage English: Beyond the static", at the TiL (Talks in Linguistics) colloquium at University of Illinois Chicago on February 5th. Janet Pierrehumbert will deliver a plenary lecture at the 2011 Linguistic Society of America meeting (6-9 January, 2011, in Pittsburgh) The following papers have been accepted for presentation at 12th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, University of New Mexico, July 2010:
Melissa Baese-Berk has been awarded a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants for the project "Doctoral Dissetation Research: Learning of Novel Phonetic Categories After Training in Perception and Production" (under the direction of Matt Goldrick) The following papers have been accepted for presentation at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 2010:
Matt Goldrick has been named an Associate Editor for Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Alumna Jen Hay (Ph.D 2000), Assoc. Professor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury, has obtained a $3,250,000 grant to launch the New Zealand Institute of Language Brain and Behaviour, which she will direct. NU Linguistics has an institutional cooperation agreement with NZ ILBB via the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems. (Press release) Janet Pierrehumbert has been awarded an Erskine Fellowship to the University of Canterbury in New Zealand for two months this summer. Janet Pierrehumbert's recent article with Eduardo Altmann and Adilson Motter ("Beyond Word Frequency: Bursts, Lulls, and Scaling in the Temporal Distributions of Words." PLoS ONE, 2009) was featured in Complexity Digest: http://comdig.unam.mx/ Caroline Engstler has been awarded a $2976 Graduate Research grant to fund her dissertation work on "Phonological Attrition after a Study-Abroad Experience" with Matt Goldrick, Ann Bradlow, and Margaret Sinclair. The following papers have been accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the LSA in Baltimore, January 2010:
The following paper has been accepted for presentatin at The Psychonomic Society of American in Boston, November 2009.
The following poster has been accepted for presentation at the Acoustical Society of America, San Antonio, Texas. October 2009
The following papers have been accepted for presentation at the
The following papers have been accepted for presentation at the
Matt Goldrick has been awarded a $429,999 NSF CAREER grant to fund his work on "Integrating Grammatical and Psycholinguistic Approaches to Phonological Processes in Speech Production" from September 2009 through August 2014. Jiaxi Liu and Page Piccinini have been awarded WCAS conference travel grants for their trips to the meetings of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP) and the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), respectively. Jiaxi Liu has been awarded a graduate scholarship from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, providing $50,000 per year for up to six years of graduate education. Mary Ann Walter will be teaching two courses on experimental phonology and language games in the egg summer school in Poznan, Poland, in August. Midam Kim has received a $3000 Graduate Research Grant to work on her dissertation project on "Phonetic Accommodation after Perceptual Exposure to Native and Nonnative Speech of English and Korean" with her advisers Ann Bradlow, Sid Horton, and Matt Goldrick. Matt Goldrick has been awarded tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor. Soon-to-be doctor Robert Daland has successfully defended his dissertation. Jordana Heller has been awarded a Cognitive Science Advanced Fellowship for 2009-10 for her project entitled "Timing of Discourse-Thematic and Non-Thematic Words in Speech and Reading," co-advised by Janet Pierrehumbert and David Rapp (Learning Sciences/Psychology). At the Chicago Area Undergraduate Research Symposium (CAURS) in Chicago, April 2009:
Greetings to our incoming class of graduate students: Lauren Ackerman (Boston University), Ann Burchfield (Simons Rock), Karen Chu (MIT), Michael Frazier (U. Virginia), and Jenna Luque (Northwestern). Olivia Cooper (BA 2009) has accepted an offer from the Industrial and Organizational Psychology Program at the University of Oklahoma to enter their Ph.D. program in Fall, 2009. Alex Djalali (BA 2008, currently ILLC, University of Amsterdam) will be presenting his work on "Probabilistic inferences in dynamic semantics" (jointly with Stefan Kaufmann) at the Tenth Symposium on Logic and Language (LoLa10) in Balatonszemes, Hungary, in August 2009. Amanda Murphy has been awarded a $3,000 University Research Grants Committee (URGC) summer research grant to work on her project on "Speech production and aphasia: Exploring the effects of deficits to lexical access on phonological encoding" with Matt Goldrick. Stefan Kaufmann has been awarded a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) for the 2009-10 academic year to work on the project "Speaking of Possibility and Time." Stefan Kaufmann has accepted an invitation to spend the 2009-10 academic year as a fellow at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg at Georg-August-Universit? G?tingen, Germany. Stefan Kaufmann has received a $5,000 grant from the Hewlett Foundation to purchase a server and backup service for data storage and analysis to be used in computational linguistics courses. Mary Ann Walter has accepted a job as Assistant Professor at the Middle East Technical University, in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Robert Daland has accepted a tenure-track position in Phonology at UCLA. Jiaxi Liu has been awarded a DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) scholarship to study German in Germany in Summer, 2009. Gregory Ward was elected a Fellow of the Lingusitic Society of America. Ann Bradlow was elected a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America. Ken Konopka recently gave an invited talk at Norteastern Illinois University on "Mexican Heritage English: Language Variation in Chicago." Two of our graduate students were awarded Graduate Research Grants this year: Jennifer Alexander for her project "Acoustic Properties of Suprasegmental Contrast Systems," and Nattalia Paterson for work on "The Role of Word-Specific Factors in Producing Second Language Accents." Chun-Liang Chan has received an Honorable Mention for the WCAS Meteor Staff Award. Northwestern Linguistics will co-host Speech Prosody 2010 in Chicago in partnership with faculty at the Beckman Institute (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and the Toyota Technological Institute (Chicago). Speech Prosody is a special interest group of ISCA, the International Speech Commmunication Association. The successful bid was spearheaded by Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, of the Beckman Institute. Soon-to-be Doctor Lewis Gebhardt has successfully defended his dissertation. Jiaxi Liu has won a $1,000 URGC grant to support her work on her honors project "Comparing the perception of musical and linguistic discourse structure" with Ric Ashley, Brady Clark and Stefan Kaufmann. Presentations at this year's In Search Of Meaning (ISOM), the Midwest Semantics/Pragmatics workshop, held at The Ohio State University on October 18, 2009:
The following papers have been accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the LSA in San Francisco, January 2009:
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