Anne Bezuidenhout
Linguistics Program and Philosophy Department, University of South Carolina
Robin Morris
Linguistics Program and Psychology Department, University of South Carolina

Implicature, relevance, and default pragmatic inference

Place: Gambrell 151
Time: 3:30 P.M.

Sponsored by the Linguistics Program.

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Tuesday, October 2, 2001
Linguistics Program Spontaneous Brown-bag

Theresa McGarry
Linguistics Program, University of South Carolina

Focus structure in Sinhala

Place: English Department, 1st floor lounge
Time: 12:00 noon

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Friday, October 19, 2001

Erik Thomas
English Department, North Carolina State University

Perception experiments in sociolinguistics and applications to ethnic variation

Place: Gambrell 151
Time: 3:30 P.M.

Sponsored by the Linguistics Program.

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Friday, November 2, 2001

Elaine R. Miller
Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Georgia State University

Formulae, Borrowing, and Code Switching in a Fifteenth-Century Hispano-Jewish Text

Place: Gambrell 151
Time: 3:30 P.M.

Sponsored by the Linguistics Program, and the Department of Spanish Italian & Portuguese.

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Friday, November 30, 2001

William Labov
Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania

Testing linguistic solutions to the problems of struggling readers

Place: Gambrell 151
Time: 3:30 P.M.

Sponsored by the Department of English Language and Literature, the
Department of Instruction and Teacher Education, the Department of
Psychology, the Institute for Southern Studies, and the Linguistics Program.

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Monday, December 10, 2001

Michael Nelson
Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona

Context-sensitivity and pragmatic implicature

Place: Gambrell 151
Time: 11:30 A.M.

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Wednesday, January 16, 2002

Hyeson Park
Linguistics Program and Department of English, University of South Carolina

When-questions in second language acquisition

Place: Gambrell 151
Time: 4:00-5:00 P.M.

Sponsored by the Department of English Language and Literature,
and the Linguistics Program.

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Tuesday, January 22, 2002

Nan Jiang (curriculum vitae )
Department of English, Auburn University

Differentiating integrated and non-integrated linguistic knowledge in SLA

Place: Nursing 127
Time: 4:00-5:00 P.M.

Sponsored by the Department of English Language and Literature,
and the Linguistics Program.

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Friday, Janury 25, 2002

Kamil Ud Deen (curriculum vitae .pdf file )
Department of Applied Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles

The Underspecification of Functional Morphology in Swahili Child Language

Place: Gambrell 152
Time: 4:00-5:00 P.M.

Sponsored by the Department of English Language and Literature,
and the Linguistics Program.

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Friday, February 15, 2002

Carla Hudson
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester

Pidgins, creoles, and learners:
What rapid language change can tell us about the mechanisms of language acquisition

Place: Walsh Conference Room
Time: 12:15 P.M.

Sponsored by the Hard Data Cafe of the Psychology Department.

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Friday, March 1, 2002

Darlene P. Lacharité
Carole Paradis
Département de langues, linguistique et traduction, Université Laval

Evaluating phonetic approximation in loanword adaptation

Place: Gambrell 151
Time: 3:30 P.M.

Sponsored by the Linguistics Program.

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Friday, March 22, 2002

Elizabeth Barber
Occidental College, Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar

An archaeologist's view of language and cognition

Place: Gambrell 151
Time: 3:30 P.M.

Sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa, the Department of Anthropology, and the Linguistics Program.

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Friday, April 12, 2002

Theresa McGarry
Pearson Award Winner, Linguistics Program, University of South Carolina

Contextualizing topic development in women’s discourse

Place: Gambrell 151
Time: 3:30 P.M.

Sponsored by the Linguistics Program.

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Friday, May 3, 2002

Dan Suslak

University of Chicago

Young people's Mixe: language change and generational difference in an indigenous Mexican language community

Place: Hamilton 318
Time: 4:00 PM

Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and Linguistics Program.