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Dear Editor,

In the interest of sharing all kinds of digital tools, I'm forwarding a resource that might be useful to many. It's a wiki, so everybody can contribute. It's DiRT, or Digital Research Tools, and BibDesk but not Papers seems to be reviewed on here:

http://digitalresearchtools.pbwiki.com/

The homepage begins with a list of categories of research activities, including 'Conduct linguistic research,' and those links take you to a whole mess of software options.
And another link to aid thinking outside the box, a Periodic Table of Visualization Methods - mouse over the elements to see examples:

http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html#

Enjoy,
Mary Rose
http://linguistics.osu.edu/~marose

Caveat Burglar

A burglar broke into a house one night. He shined his flashlight around, looking for valuables; and when he picked up a CD player to place in his sack, a strange, disembodied voice echoed from the dark saying, 'Jesus is watching you.'

He nearly jumped out of his skin, clicked his flashlight off, and froze. When he heard nothing more after a bit, he shook his head, promised himself a vacation after the next big score, then clicked the light on and began searching for more valuables.

Just as he pulled the stereo out so he could disconnect the wires, clear as a bell he heard, 'Jesus is watching you.' Freaked out, he shined his light around frantically, looking for the source of the voice.

Finally, in the corner of the room, his flashlight beam came to rest on a parrot.

Did you say that?' he hissed at the parrot..

'Yep,' the parrot confessed, then squawked, 'I'm just trying to warn you.'

The burglar relaxed. 'Warn me, huh? Who in the world are you?'

'Moses,' replied the bird.

'Moses?' the burglar laughed . 'What kind of people would name a bird "Moses"?'

'The kind of people that would name a Rottweiler "Jesus".'


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For events farther in the future consult the Upcoming Events Page.

FRIDAY, 30 JANUARY

• Speech Lunch

  No Speech Lunch this week

• Logical Methods in the Humanities

  John Burgess (Princeton)
  "Frege: impredicative fixes"
  12:00pm, Cordura 100

• Department Colloquium

  Giorgio Magri (MIT)
  "A Theory of Individual Level Predicates Based on Blind Mandatory Scalar Implicatures"
  3:30pm, Bldg. 460, Room 126

• Department Social

  5:00pm, the lounge

MONDAY, 2 FEBRUARY

• Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop

  Scott Grimm
  "Number marking and individuation: a view from Dagaare"
  12:00pm, MJH 126

• Phonetics and Phonology Workshop

  Uriel Cohen Priva and Matthew Adams
  "Informativity and the OCP in German"
  4:00m, MJH Chair's Office

• Berkeley Linguistics Colloquium

  Nick Enfield (MPI Nijmegen)
  Timing of responses to questions: a 10-language comparison
  4-5:30pm, 182 Dwinelle, UC Berkeley

THURSDAY, 5 FEBRUARY

• Stanford Psychology of Language Tea (SPLAT)

  Jen Hay (University of Canterbury)
  "Usage-based representations: Evidence from New Zealand English /r/-sandhi"
  Tea at 5:15pm, talk at 5:30pm in MJH 126
  

FRIDAY, 6 FEBRUARY

• Speech Lunch

  Stacy Lewis

• Ling/Phil/Psych Colloquium

  Susan Carey (Harvard Psychology)
  "The Origin of Concepts"
  3:30pm, Building 420, Room 041

• Reception for Susan Carey

  5:00-6:00, Psychology Lounge (1st floor of Building 420)

MONDAY, 9 FEBRUARY

• Special Department Seminar

  Amy Rose Deal (UMass, Amherst)
  "Modal Aspectual Meaning"
  5:00pm, MJH 126

TUESDAY, 10 FEBRUARY

• Department Colloquium

  Amy Rose Deal (UMass, Amherst)
  "Ergative Case and the Transitive Subject"
  12:00pm, MJH 126

UPCOMING EVENTS (always under construction)

LINGUISTIC DEPARTMENT EVENTS PAGE

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