2005 Colloquia

21 January
Matt Traxler, University of California, Davis (webpage)
Syntactic Priming in Comprehension (abstract)

28 January
Mark Liberman, University of Pennsylvania (webpage)
A series of unfortunate events: the past 150 years of linguistics (abstract)

22 April
Bruce Hayes, UCLA (webpage)
Stochastic Phonological Knowledge: General Constraints, Gradient Ranking (abstract)

6 May
John McWhorter, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (webpage)
The Effect of Suboptimal Transmission Upon Natural Language Grammars (abstract)

30 September
Qing Zhang (University of Texas, Austin) (webpage)
The 'smoothness' of Beijing speech: a socio-historical approach to the meanings of sociolinguistic variables (abstract)

14 October
Bruno Estigarribia (Stanford University) (webpage)
Learning English Yes-No Questions: Variation Shapes Acquisition (disseration proposal talk) (abstract)

Monday, 17 October, 3:30pm (jointly sponsored with CASA)
NB: Bldg. 110, Room: 111-O Michael Silverstein (University of Chicago) (webpage)
The Ethics of the Archive in the Politics of "Cultural Heritage"

28 October
Carlos Gussenhoven (Radboud University Nijmegen) (webpage)
Explaining the historical raising of long vowels (abstract)