Linguistics Colloquy Series

Spring 2002

February 11
Antonio Simoes, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Evaluating the properties and usefulness of a subjective assessment of Brazilian Portuguese

February 25
Osama Abdel-Ghafer, Department of Linguistics
Verbless sentences in Standard Arabic

March 11
Robert Rankin, Department of Linguistics
Polysynthesis in Siouan verb morphology

April 1
Mohammad Al-Masri, Department of Linguistics - Acoustic and perceptual correlates of emphasis in Jordanian Arabic
Kazumi Maniwa, Department of Linguistics - Complete neutralization of word-final tonal specification in Japanese

April 15
Maria Carmen Parafita Couto, Department of Linguistics - Minimalist approach to Galician inflected infinitives
Ling Yan, Department of Linguistics - The structure of Ba-construction in Mandarin Chinese

April 29
Mike Vitevitch, Department of Psychology
The influence of phonotactics and phonological similarity on speech production