Colloquia and Presentations 1998-1999

Friday, September 11, 1998

Laura Ahearn, Dept. of Anthropology, USC.
Grammatical Agency:
Love, Marriage, and Discourse in Nepal
151 Gambrell Hall, 3:30 P.M.

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Monday, September 28, 1998

Panel discussion, featuring:
Jacqui Asbury (SC Dept. of Education),
Barbara Hancin-Bhatt (English/Linguistics, USC),
Susan Long (Instruction & Teacher Education, USC),
Carol Myers-Scotton (English/Linguistics, USC)

Carolyn Matalene (English, USC), Moderator.

Growing up bilingual in America:
An exploration of the issues raised in
Richard Rodriguez' autobiography "Hunger of Memory"
152 Gambrell Hall, 4:00-5:00 P.M.

This event is co-sponsored by the Linguistics Progam and the Freshman English Program.

Friday, October 16, 1998

Reiko Mazuka, Dept. of Psychology, Duke University.
Learning to speak with "mora":
Development of mora-timed rhythm in Japanese language acquisition
Gambrell 151 at 3:30pm

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This talk is co-sponsored by the Linguistics Progam and the Psychology Department.

Friday, October 30, 1998

Kurt Goblirsch, Dept. of Germanic, Slavic, and Oriental Languages, USC.
Consonant shifts and the history of Germanic
Gambrell 151 at 3:30pm

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Thursday, November 19, 1998

Dorit Bar-On, Dept. of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Speaking my mind
Business Administration 435 at 4:00pm

This talk is sponsored by the Philosophy Department.

Friday, November 20, 1998

Eric Holt, Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, USC.
Vowel harmony in Asturiano, a  dialect spoken in Spain
Gambrell 151 at 3:30pm.

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Friday, January 15, 1999

Aaron Broadwell, Dept. of Anthropology and Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Science, SUNY Albany.
Movement in the mind:
The syntax and semantics of directionality in Choctaw
151 Gambrell Hall at 3:30pm

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This talk is co-sponsored by the Linguistics Progam and the Anthropology Department.

Friday, January 29, 1999

Aydin Durgunoglu, Dept. of Psychology and Mental Health, University of Minnesota at Duluth.
Literacy development in a multilingual context
151 Gambrell Hall at 3:30pm

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This talk is co-sponsored by the Linguistics Progam, the College of Education, the English Department, and the English Programs for Internationals (EPI).

Tuesday, February 9, 1999

Nancy Green, Human-Computer Action Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
Interactive multimedia argumentation in AutoBrief, an intellegent multimedia presentation system
106 Sumwalt at 3:30pm

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This talk is sponsored by the Department of Computer Science.

Friday, February 19, 1999

William D. Davies, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Iowa.
Madurese Focus Questions:
When Long Distance is a Really Local Call
151 Gambrell Hall at 3:30pm

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Friday, March 5, 1999

Farida Cassimjee, Linguistics Program, USC, and Benedict College, Columbia, SC.
Charles Kisseberth, Linguistics Program, USC, and Dept. of Linguistics, Tel Aviv University.
Optimality Theory and the Syntax-Phonology Interface
151 Gambrell Hall at 3:30pm

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Friday, March 26, 1999

Anatoly Liberman, Dept. of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch, University of Minnesota.
Where do words come from?
151 Gambrell Hall at 3:30pm

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This talk is co-sponsored by the Linguistics Progam, the Department of Germanic, Slavic & East Asian Languages and Literatures, and the Comparative Literature Program.

Friday, April 9, 1999

Kemp Williams, Linguistics Program/English Dept., Florida International University
Flannery O'Connor and the metaphorical imagination: Cognitive conflict on the road to grace
151 Gambrell Hall at 3:30pm

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This talk is co-sponsored by the Linguistics Progam, the English Department, and the Institute for Southern Studies.

Tuesday, April 20, 1999

Elizabeth Bates, University of California at San Diego

Disordered Language Development
152 Gambrell Hall at 3:30pm

On the evolution and development of language
Callcott Social Sciences 015 at 7:30pm

These talks are sponsored by the South Carolina Honors College and the Department of Psychology.

Friday, April 23, 1999

Colloquium presentation by the winner of the B.L. Pearson Award.
Cathy Bridgeman:
“Declaring peace: Public discourse, linguists, and the Middle East.”
Place TBA at 3:30pm

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This talk is sponsored by the Linguistics Progam.


 

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