2003 Colloquia

17 January
John Singler, New York University (webpage)
The search for historical African American English: Evidence from Mississippi-in-Africa (abstract)

11 February
Paul de Lacy, Cambridge University (webpage)
Markedness Hierarchies and conflation (abstract)

21 February
Jessica Maye, University of Rochester (webpage)
Becoming a Native Listener: A Statistical Account of Developmental Speech Perception (abstract)

25 February
Dan Jurafsky, University of Colorado, Boulder (webpage)
Probabilistic and Distributional Modeling of Linguistic Knowledge: Perspectives from Comprehension, Production, and Learning (abstract)

6 March
Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, Leipzig (webpage)
Against Iconicity and Markedness (abstract)

11 March
John Hale, Johns Hopkins University (webpage)
Quantifying Ambiguity Resolution with Information Theory (abstract)

4 April
Tara Mohanan, National University of Singapore (webpage)
K P Mohanan, National University of Singapore (webpage)
Emergence of Structure in Malayalee English (abstract)

9 May
K P Mohanan, National University of Singapore (webpage)
Tara Mohanan, National University of Singapore (webpage)
The Logical Structure of OT Constraints (abstract)

15 May
Malka Rappaport Hovav, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (webpage)
Beth Levin, Stanford University (webpage)
Roots and Templates in the Representation of Verb Meaning

30 May
Gary Marcus, New York University (webpage)
Language in the Era of the Genome (abstract)

17 October
Duane Watson, University of Rochester (webpage)
Intonational Boundaries, Production, and Comprehension (abstract)

31 October
Undergraduate Summer Research Report (details)

7 November
Juliette Blevins, University of California, Berkeley (webpage)
Drift in Evolutionary Phonology: Patterns of Austronesian Syncope (abstract)

21 November
Jane H. Hill, University of Arizona (webpage)
Linguistic Ideology, White Racism, and the Agony of Trent Lott (abstract)