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Colloquia and Presentations 2007-2008
Links to previous years' colloquia: 98-99 ; 99-00 ; 00-01 ; 01-02 ; 02-03 ; 03-04 ; 04-05 ; 05-06 ; 06-07
Friday,
April 25, 2008
Mocking in Mock French:
Social Uses of Stylized Voicing by Muslim French Teenagers
Time and location TBA
Chantal Tetreault
Assistant Professor
University of North
Carolina-Charlotte
Click here
for abstract.

Friday,
April 11, 2008
Michael Tanenhaus 
Professor, Brain &
Cognition, and Linguistics
Director, Center for
Language Science
Rochester University
Rochester, New York
"Fine
grained phonetic detail in spoken word recognition"
Friday,
April 11, 2008, 12:15,
Psychology Department Hard Data Cafe, Walsh Conference Room (2nd Floor,
Barnwell). Click here for abstract.
and
Friday,
April 11, 2008, 3:30pm, Gambrell 153
"Referential Domains in Language Processing"
Click here for abstract.
Sponsored by: The USC Linguistics Program

Friday, March 28,
2008
"On identity and investment in language
learning"
Bonny
Norton
Professor
Department
of Language
and Literacy Education
The
University of British
Columbia
Gambrell
153
3:30
pm
(brief)
Reception to follow

Friday, February 29,
2008
"African
American Vernacular English and the Black/White achievement gap in
American schools"
John R. Rickford
Stanford University
Director, Program
in African and African American Studies, Stanford, and holder of the
Martin Luther King, Jr., Centennial Chair
Click
here for
abstract.
3:00
pm
Gambrell 153
Sponsored by: The
Linguistics
Program, the Departments of English, Anthropology, and Instruction
and Teacher Education (College
of Education).

Friday, February 22, 2008
Dr.
Phil. Lucia
Siebers
Department of English and
American Studies
University of Regensburg
"Black South African
English: Sociolinguistic Perspectives"
Click here for
abstract.
3:30
p.m.
Humanities Classroom 202
Reception to follow
in the English Department Lounge
Sponsored by: The
Linguistics
Program

Friday,
November 16, 2007
Ray Jackendoff
Seth
Merrin Professor of
Philosophy
Co-Director,
Center for Cognitive Studies,
Tufts University
"Semantics of English Noun-Noun Compounds"
Click
here for
abstract.
3:30
pm
Gambrell 151
Sponsored by: The College & Arts and Sciences, the Linguistics
Program, and the Departments of English, Languages,
Literatures & Cultures, and Philosophy.

Thursday, November
15, 2007
Ray Jackendoff
Seth
Merrin Professor of
Philosophy
Co-Director,
Center for Cognitive Studies,
Tufts University
"The Peculiar Logic of
Value"
Click here
for
abstract.
7:00
pm
Law
School Auditorium
Sponsored by: The
College & Arts and Sciences, the Linguistics Program, and the
Departments of English, Languages, Literatures &
Cultures, and Philosophy.

Friday,
September 14, 2007
David Poeppel
Professor
Neurolinguistics
Depsrtment of Biology & Department of Linguistics
University of Maryland
"The relation(s)
between linguistics and neurobiology"
Click here
for
abstract.
Place: Gambrell 152
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Sponsored by: The USC Linguistics Program

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