Colloquia and Presentations 1999-2000

Friday, August 27, 1999

Dorothy Disterheft, Linguistics Program and English Dept.,USC.

Linguistic teleology: A dead end

Place: 152 Gambrell
Time:  3:30 P.M.

This talk is sponsored by the Lingusitics Program.

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Thursday, September 16, 1999

Raymond Kent, Dept. of Communicative Disorders,
University.of Wisconsin, Madison

Flowers and weeds in the garden of phonology

Place: Russell House Theatre
Time:  9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m..

This talk is sponsored by Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology..

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Friday, September 17, 1999

Walt Wolfram (bio sketch), English Dept.,
North Carolina State University.

Reconstructing the History of African American English:
            New Data on an Old Theme (handout)

Place: 152 Gambrell
Time:  3:30 P.M.

This talk is co-sponsored by African-American Studies, Department of English, Linguistics Program, and Institute of Southern Studies.

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Friday, October 1st, 1999

Marlyse Baptista, Dept.of English and Linguistics Program,
University of Georgia.

Typology of Tense Markers and Clausal Architectures in Creole Languages
(handout)

Place: 152 Gambrell Hall
Time: 3:30 P.M.

This talk is sponsored by the Linguistics Program and Anthropology.

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Friday, October 29, 1999

Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky,
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland/
University of Vienna, Austria

Pragmatic interpretation of discourse

Place: 152 Gambrell Hall
Time: 3:30 P.M.

This talk is sponsored by the Linguistics Program

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Friday, November 5, 1999

Matthew J. Traxler,  Dept.of Psychology,
USC

Likelihood and competition in syntactic parsing:
Multiple simultaneous constraint dissatisfaction.

Place: 152 Gambrell Hall
Time: 3:30 P.M.

This talk is sponsored by the Linguistics Program.

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Friday, November 19, 1999

Alfonso Morales-Front,  Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
Georgetown University

The role of universal parameters and lexical learning
in the acquisition of stress by second language learners of Spanish.

Place: 152 Gambrell
Time: 3:30 P.M.

The talk is co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish, Italian,
and Portuguese and the Linguistics Program

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Thursday December 9, 1999

Lanita Jacobs-Huey, College of Charleston

Language and identity in African American speech communities

Place: Gambrell 429
Time: 12 o'clock


Friday February 4, 2000

Christiane Bongartz, Department of English,
University of North Carolina - Charlotte

When nothing is something - English determiner features
and interlanguage noun combinations

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

The talk is sponsored by the Linguistics Program.

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Monday February 7, 2000

Renee Blake, Department of Linguistics, New York University.

It's not as clear as black and white:
A study of race, class, and language in a Barbados community.

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

The talk is co-sponsored by the Linguistics Program and the Department of English.

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Monday February 14, 2000

Donald Winford, Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University.

Creole formation in the context of Contact Linguistics

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

The talk is co-sponsored by the Linguistics Program and the Department of English.

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Thursday, February 24, 2000

Larry LaFond, University of South Carolina, and Rachel Hayes, University of Arizona

It's better left unsaid: L2 acquisition of null subjects in Spanish.

Place: 152 Gambrell
Time: 3:30 P.M.

The talk is sponsored by Linguistics Program, USC.

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Tuesday, February 29, 2000

Lisa A. Reed, French and Linguistics, Pennsylvania State University

Pronominal Coreference in French: Syntax versus Semantics.

Place: HUM 104
Time: 2:00 p.m.

The talk is sponsored by the Dept. of French & Classics, USC.


Monday, March 13,  2000

Tracey L. Weldon, North Carolina State University

The African American Vernacular English-Gullah connection: Historical and linguistic perspectives

Place: Gambrell 429
Time: 3:30-5:00 p.m.

The talk is  sponsored by the English Department and the Linguistics Program

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Friday, March 17, 2000

Ronald P. Leow, Georgetown University

Attention, awareness and focus on form in SLA:
Theory and research in the second/foreign language classroom

Place: Gambrell 152
Time: 3:30-5:00 p.m.

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Friday, March 24, 2000

Tamara M. Valentine, University of South Carolina, Spartanburg

Bilingual Schizophrenia: Reconstructing Gender identities in the English Writings of South Asian Women

Place: Gambrell 152
Time: 3:30-5:00 p.m.

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Friday, April 21, 2000

Elena Schmitt, Ph.D. Student, Linguistics Program, USC,

The Lost Word: Language Attrition in Immigrant Children

Place: Gambrell 152
Time: 3:30-4:30 p.m.

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