| Abstract | The 4th (Now-)Annual OSU Martin Luther King Day Symposium on Linguistics Featuring, this year: MODERN GREEK LINGUISTICS Monday, 15 January 2007 122 Oxley Hall (1712 Neil Avenue, on the OSU Campus) Organized by Brian D. Joseph (joseph.1@osu.edu), with assistance and financial support from the Department of Linguistics and the Kenneth E. Naylor Professorship of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Preliminary Program: 8:40 - - Coffee/tea available 8:55 - - Words of welcome 9:00-9:40: "A (Very) Quick Tour through 3500 Years of Greek Linguistic History – Is it all One Language?", Brian D. Joseph (Ohio State University) 9:40-10:10: "Greek Influence on Slavic and Arumanian", Andrej Sobolev (University of Marburg/Ohio State University) 10:10-10:40: "On the problem of defining inflectional classes for Modern Greek nouns", Andrea Sims (Northwestern University) BREAK 11:00-11:30: "Diglossia and Papadiamantis", Christopher Brown, Ohio State University 11:30-12:15: "From politeness marker to discourse marker: please, thank you, and sorry in Cypriot Greek", Marina Terkourafi (University of Illinois) LUNCH (provided gratis for all attendees) 1:30-2:00: "Distributional cues to word segmentation in modern Greek", Anton Rytting (Ohio State University) 2:00-2:30: "An acoustic comparison of [d], [?], and [ð] across Greek, English, and Spanish", Kathleen Currie Hall (Ohio State University) BREAK 2:45-3:15: "The fine-grained phonetics and acquisition of voiced stops in Greek", Eunjong Kong & Mary Beckman (Ohio State University) 3:15-3:45 : "Acquisition patterns and acoustic cues of voiceless plosives in Greek", Timothy Arbisi-Kelm & Jan Edwards (University of Wisconsin) and Mary Beckman & Eunjong Kong (Ohio State University) TELOS PANTWN |