Linguistics Colloquy Series

Spring 2007
3:30pm in Blake Hall, room 206

January 29
Arienne Dwyer, Department of Anthropology
Language purification in the Uyghur exile community: Nationalism one word at a time

February 12
Wendy Herd, Department of Linguistics
Incomplete neutralization of /t/ and /d/ in flapping environments

February 26
Robert Rankin, Department of Linguistics
The Vice President’s chair, or linguistics meets the history detectives and antiques roadshow

March 12
Mariko Kondo, School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University, Japan
Speech rhythm or F0? — Japanese prosody control by English speakers

March 26
Masako Ueda Fidler, Department of Slavic Languages, Brown University
Co-sponsored by KU Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
What’s in mimetic expressions: Grammar, discourse and onomatopoeia in Czech, Japanese, and other languages

April 9
Kevan Edwards, Department of Philosophy
The primacy of reference

April 23
Wang Jing, Department of Linguistics
The interpretation and processing of the Chinese aspect marker “le”

April 30 (Note: off-cycle date)
Ocke-Schwen Bohn, Department of English, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Asymmetries in infant vowel perception: A window on how humans structure the vowel space