WHISC 4:3 --- February 9, 2006
Jason Riggle
University of Chicago
Lexical entropy, finite state optimality, and learning from surface forms alone
Friday, February 10, 3:30 pm, Machmer W-26
[Party after at Chris's]
Jason Riggle will present in Phonology Group this week: Thursday, February 9, 3:30 pm, in the Partee Room
(SC 301).
He plans to lead the group through his paper 'Probably approximately correct learning in Optimality Theory'.
Afterwords, people will take Jason out to dinner at an Amherst restaurant (or perhaps Bub's). Contact Kathryn right this very minute if you would like
to go out to dinner with this crew.
MUMM 1, we hardly knew ye. The phonologists have traded irony for deliberation (at least while the meeting is here).
The 1st UMass (Amherst) M(IT) (Phonology) Meeting takes place this Saturday, here at UMass Amherst, in the new department lounge.
| 12:30-1:00 |
Cookies, coffee, conversation |
| 1:00-1:45 |
Matt Wolf, UMass Amherst |
Correspondence theory and the null output |
| 1:50-2:30 |
Feng-fan Hsieh, MIT |
The interplay of paradigmatic uniformity and
antihomophony in "base-free" paradigms |
| 2:35-3:20 |
Joe Pater, UMass Amherst |
Additive optimization and phonological typology |
| 3:25-4:05 |
Seth Cable, MIT |
(Highlights from) A metrical analysis of syncope in
Tlingit |
| 4:05-4:20 |
Break |
| 4:20-5:05 |
Takahito Shinya, UMass Amherst |
Lexical accent status affects perceived
prominence of intonational peaks in Japanese |
| 5:10-5:50 |
Steven Lulich, MIT |
Subglottal resonances in speech production and
perception |
| 5:55-6:35 |
Asaf Bachrach, MIT |
Brazilian Portuguese lexical stress is
(morpho-)logical |
In the coming week, there is a series of talks in the psychology department that
are of interest to many in South College:
Fernanda Ferreira: Formal talk
Monday, February 13, 12:30 pm, room 521B
Fernanda Ferreira: Informal future directions talk
Monday , February 13, 3:30 pm, room 521A
John Henderson: Formal talk
Tuesday, February 14, 2:30 pm, room 521B
John Henderson: Informal future directions talk
Wednesday, February 15, 9:00 am, room 521B
[Thanks Lyn!]
The Linguist List is sure to begin its annual pledge drive soon. We would like UMass Amherst
Linguistics to be the department with the most total donation money for one of the weeks that
the drive is on. So this is a request to get ready to make a donation. (We will send our an
actual request for donations when the drive is on. This is likely to be next week.)
[Thanks Barbara!]
The Undergraduate Research Club meets today (February 9), at 6:00 pm,
in the Partee Room. Paula Aden will be talking about learning algorithms
and Optimality Theory. The presentation will be designed as an introduction,
so no prior knowledge is assumed. She will explain general information
about learning algorithms and then talk about some specific cases.
All Welcome!!
Acquisition Lab Meeting
Catherine Legere
English- and French-speaking children's understanding of factive and non-factive complements
Monday, February 13, 12:15 pm, South College 301
All Welcome!!
[Thanks Tom!]
The Syntax ReadinG Group meets today (February 9), at 5:30 pm, in the lounge.
Keir Moulton will present 'The properties of anticausatives crosslinguistically', by Artemis Alexiadou, Elena Anagnostopoulou, and
Florian Schäferwhich (2005, in Mara Frascarelli, ed., Phases of Interpretation. Berlin: Mouton).
If you are interested in attending the group's meetings but you have a scheduling
conflict, contact Cherlon.
[Thanks Cherlon!]
Mako Hirotani (2004 UMass Amherst PhD, now at Max Planck in Leipzig) sent in the following pictures
from the International Workshop on the Interface between Prosody and Information Structure, which took place at Kobe University, December 17-18.
From left: Mako Hirotani, Satoshi Tomioka (1997 UMass Amherst Phd), Lisa Selkirk, Hisao Tokizaki (1998-1999 UMAss Amherst Visiting Scholar), Mariko Sugahara, and Yoshi Kitagawa.
During Kobe's Annual Festival of Lights
Mako, Susan Fischer, Yoshi Kitagawa, S.-Y. Kuroda, Yuki Hirose, and Mariko Sugahara
[Thanks Mako!]
Adam Werle sent in the following photos
of Nitinat Lake, British Columbia.
Ditidaht Community school students and staff
Ditidaht language night class
WHISC now has a new and better means of providing you with links to conference that
might be of interest:
WHISC Conference links at de.licio.us
So send us any and all links to relevant conferences and we will add them to the de.licio.us page. Here is the current list:
- 3rd York-Essex Morphology Meeting (February 25-26, 2006)
- Australian Linguistics Institute (July 10-14, 2006)
- The 32nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (February 10-12, 2006)
- LSA Summer Meeting (Michigan State University, June 22-25, 2006)
- Ambiguity in Anaphora (Málaga, Spain, August 7-11, 2006)
- Coling/ACL 2006 (Sydney, Australia, July 17-21, 2006)
The Amherst College German department has released its Spring 2006 Film Series schedule.
(Special South College interest: we heard that Roger Higgins occasionally attends.)
[Thanks Angelika!]
Next time you consider leaving your foci ambiguous, recall this horrorshow, which Barbara found on Yahoo News:
Older men with heart failure survive longer -study
- ... than older women
- ... than healthy men
- ... than men with other diseases
- ... than they used to
- ...
Next time you start to worry that our data are messy and our results uncertain, think about
dietary sciences:
