- Jiaxi Liu presented a talk on "Comparing
the perception of musical and linguistic discourse structure."
- Page Piccinini presented her poster
"Semantic Contextual Cues and Listener Adaptation to Foreign-Accented
English" and won the best poster award.
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-Universität
Göttingen, 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:
- Rachel Baker, Ryan Doran, Meredith larson, Yaron
McNabb, and Gregory Ward: Distinguishing between the SAID
and the IMPLICATED: An Empirical Investigation
The following papers have been accepted for presentation
at the Annual Meeting of the LSA in San Francisco, January 2009:
- Robert Daland: Diphone-based word segmentation
in Russian and English
- Midam Kim: Discourse Markers in Conversations
between Native and Nonnative Speakers
- Hannah Rohde and Andrew Kehler: QUD-Driven Expectations
in Discourse Interpretation
- Hannah Rohde and Andrew Kehler: Grammatical
and Coherence-Driven Biases in Pronoun Interpretation
- Meredith Larson: Long-term effects of embedding
on structural priming
- Eyal Sagi, Brady Clark, and Stefan Kaufmann:
Tracing semantic change with Latent Semantic Analysis
- Celina Troutman and Brady Clark: Person, Pragmatics,
and Principle B.
- Xiaoju Zheng and Janet Pierrehumbert: The effects
of metrical prominence and position on duration perception
