Wherever you are celebrating this holiday season, I hope you will enjoy reading the latest news from past and present members of OSU Linguistics. You'll see that the Department is as active as ever, and it certainly doesn't look like things will be slowing down in the days or months ahead!
I'd like to draw your attention to a new outreach programs that is described below: SLIYS (pronounced 'slice'), Summer Linguistic Institute for Youth Scholars. This weeklong summer program is aimed at high school students interested in language. The goal is to give participants insight into how language works and how their native language may differ from other languages that they are studying. If the success of our first offering of the institute last year is any indication, this year's program will be a terrific experience for both participants and instructors. Please help us get the word out about this great opportunity; the SLIYS website is at linguistics.osu.edu/SLIYS. Also, we are seeking contributions in order to create need-based scholarships since the tuition may be more than some families are able to manage. If you are in a position to help out, please contact me at ehume@ling.osu.edu. Of course, we also welcome any support that you are able to provide to the Department as a whole. See below for more information or the igive icon on the newsletter sidebar.
Linguistics Major, Samantha Gett, and
Beth Hume present a paper in Germany
Warm wishes to you all for a safe and happy holiday.
Go Bucks!
Beth Hume, Chair
2009-2010 University Distinguished Lecturer
Peter Culicover
Peter W. Culicover, Humanities Distinguished Professor, Department of Linguistics, has been named 2009-2010 University Distinguished Lecturer at Ohio State. The Distinguished Lecture Series annually recognizes two senior faculty for their outstanding academic achievement, particularly, but not exclusively, in research, scholarship or creative activity.
Culicover has been one of the world’s eminent linguists for more than three decades. His theory of grammar is one of the leading paradigms for the study of language acquisition and his work established the field of learnability — the relation between formal theories of language and the abilities necessary for children to learn language. Read more: http://www.osu.edu/universityawards/2009/lecturer.html
Hope Dawson Awarded 2009 Linguistic department Chair's Teaching Award!
Hope receiving her award from Beth, Chair
Felicitations to Hope Dawson for winning this year's Department of Linguistics Chair's Teaching Award! This award honors Hope's many contributions to the teaching and mentoring mission of our department. She consistently receives superb teaching evaluations for her courses. This is particularly impressive in the case of Ling 170 where this past year she received a 4.9 SEI score from her class of 60 undergraduate students! Hope has also worked tirelessly to provide outstanding mentoring to our graduate student instructors, and played a key role in organizing events to enhance teaching excellence.
William Schuler
The newest addition to the Department of Linguistics is Dr. William Schuler, Professor of Computational Linguistics. William grew up in a suburb of Detroit -- Grosse Pointe, Michigan. He completed his undergraduate study at that school up north. You know the one; it starts with an "M" :). It was there where William became interested in linguistics while taking a computational linguistics course in Computer Science. Eventually he attended the University of Pennsylvania where he received his Ph.D.
William has been married for eleven years to his wife, Karin. He has two daughters, Claire (10), and Anna (6), with whom he loves to goof around. Drawing was a past hobby of Williams, but not so much anymore and interestingly enough, he occasionally plays the violin, which he says he plays "poorly". Back when he had time to read for pleasure, William was a big fan of Flann O'Brien. The coolest place linguistics has ever taken William, is our great university, The Ohio State University!
Vedrana and Mirko
Vedrana Mihalicek, winner of the Linguistics 200-Level Teaching Award is in her fourth year in the Linguistics Ph.D. Program. Vedrana grew up in Sarajevo, Bosnia until she was eleven, and then moved to Zagreb, Croatia. She spent most of her teen years in Italy attending the United World College of the Adriatic in Italy and graduated with an International Baccalaureate diploma. Reading the Language Instinct by Steven Pinker at UWC of the Adriatic is what psyched Vedrana about the academic field of linguistics and decided that was what she wanted to study. Vedrana feels her education at United World College of the Adriatic is what got her to Brandeis University, where she double majored in linguistics and philosophy. At Brandeis, Vedrana had finished with her linguistics major by the end of the second year, and then began work on her philosophy major. She actually wanted to go to grad school for philosophy of mind or philosophy of science, but it did not work out that way. It is ironic because Vedrana did not have a sound logic background when starting grad school, yet she does now, even teaching Ling 280 Language and Formal Reasoning.
Vedrana's parents and older brother still live in Zagreb. She has an older sister who lives in Lelystad, Holland, with her husband and daughter. Vedrana speaks Serbo-Croatian, and when asked about where she is from, she says the former Yugoslavia. Vedrana lives with her two cats, Mirko, who's about 8 months old, and Giddle, who's about ten years old. In her spare time, she enjoys an occasional beer in hole-in-the-wall bars, walking, and watching Futurama and The Office. Card games Vedrana enjoys are whist, canasta, and rummy (if anybody knows any of those games and wants to play, please get in touch with her). Some favorites are Indian Food, poppers with cream cheese, and breaded and fried slices of cheese with tartar sauce-she says it's a European thing. Movies she enjoys are all Wes Anderson movies (especially Rushmore), Woody Allen movies and anything featuring her dream man, Viggo Mortensen.
Kevin Gabbard
Kevin Gabbard, third year Linguistics Undergraduate and winner of a 2009 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, hails from Centerville, Ohio, just outside of Dayton. Word games played with his family and older brother sparked an early interest in linguistics for Kevin. It became more serious as he took Spanish classes in junior high and high school and attended a class on Greek and Latin derivatives in English vocabulary. This led him to a foreign language immersion trip to Tanzania in 2005 and eventually to The Ohio State University to major in linguistics.
Kevin is active in the community by volunteering with Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Ohio every Friday. On campus, Kevin, being an avid reader, started a campus book club. He is a Peer Research Contact, who are undergraduate students involved in research in colleges and departments across campus and are willing to share their experiences via email correspondence.
Kevin likes finding new spices which to cook, traveling when he can afford it, and with doing a lot of woodwork and home repair (Kevin built a small studio/house in the summer and fall of 2008). An "oddity" you may not know about Kevin is that he really enjoys opera, and got to see the Metropolitan Opera perform Don Giovanni from the orchestra section in October, 2008. His favorite poets include Seamus Heaney and Wallace Stevens, while his favorite books are The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, and Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino. While reading these books, he really enjoys eating Mediterranean and Middle Eastern food.
Claudia Morettini
The department's Fiscal and Human Resources Officer, Claudia Morettini, started working for the department in 1992. After leaving for a few years, she found her way back to 222 Oxley. Claudia's job interview for the department is what got her interested in linguistics, considering she thought it would be wise to know the meaning of the word before she showed up for the interview.
Claudia is first generation Italian and spent her K-12 years in Pennsylvania and Arizona. Before moving to Ohio, she lived a few years in Washington, D. C. and southern California. Claudia is the youngest of ten siblings, four brothers and five sisters. She isn't quite sure about the exact date her parents and two older brothers arrived in America, but since then her family tree has grown to about 150 members. Claudia has two children, a son and a daughter and just like every other parent, she believes her children are gifted and special.
Claudia's favorite community organization is the OSU Chadwick Arboretum & Learning Garden. She likes reading, yoga, knitting and gardening. The poi, when in Hawaii, was definitely not one of Claudia's favorite foods, she also doesn't care for chocolate covered grasshoppers or anything along those lines. Italy and Greece are two places where Claudia delighted in every meal she ate. Mostly, Claudia enjoys planning the next trip, researching what to see and explore in the places she hasn't yet been. Over the years Claudia's travels have taken her to about 26 states, 21 countries, and four continents. Visiting all of the states, is one of Claudia's goals, as well as the seven continents, and as many countries as possible in her lifetime, since it is always fun to have goals.
Top Row (left to right): Kodi Weatherholtz, Murat Yasavul, Gregory Kierstead, Brice Russ
Middle Row (left to right): Rory Turnbull, Sara Phillips, Cindy Johnson
Bottom Row (left to right): Jane Mitsch, David Mitchell, Ji Young Ann
On-going research projects and lively study groups include:
- Analogical modeling of grammatical change in the Romance verb
- Balkan language contact and phonetic effects
- Generalization of marked variants in post-Vedic Sanskrit
- Genetics and linguistic prehistory in East Asia
- Parallels in methods and results between evolutionary biology and historical linguistics
- Tense, mood, and aspect changes in Caribbean Creoles
LILT 2009 Participants
In the Summer of 2009, the department hosted the first planned annual week-long Linguistics Institute for Language Teachers (LILT). The instructors were Peter Culicover and Beth Hume. The participants were primarily teachers of Spanish, French and ESL. LILT covers four broad topics: language learning, sounds of language, grammar, and language and culture. The goal of LILT is to bring an understanding of linguistics into the language classroom, by helping teachers of language become aware of some of the main concepts of contemporary linguistics, especially those that will be most relevant to them in their practice as classroom teachers.
Having fun with Linguistics
Julia Papke leading group discussion
In the middle of summer 2009, our department hosted the first summer institute for high school students interested in language learning and linguistics. SLIYS, attended by eighteen students, lasted a week and introduced participants to the basic ideas of linguistic analysis. They participated in experiments, games, activities and discussions aimed at discovering and exploring these basic ideas. The focus of the 2009 institute was on learning aspects of languages and linguistics that would enhance learning a foreign language.
The program focused on English but drew on dozens of other languages in order to explore the dimensions in which languages differ. The subject areas chosen were: language acquisition, phonetics, phonology, language and culture, syntax and morphology/semantics. In addition, students completed an investigation of a particular language, exploring and describing their chosen language in the same way they had done with English. They presented their projects on the last day to an audience of other participants, instructors, parents, and members of OSU's Linguistics Department.
Both the participants and the instructors had a blast. Participants said they really enjoyed the activities (particularly the scavenger hunt with clues in different writing systems), that the instructors were fantastic, and that the institute gave them a thorough but fun introduction to linguistics. Many wished it was longer, and several asked if they could return next year.
In July 2010, the department will host the second summer Summer Linguistics Institute for Youth Scholars. The theme and focus will remain the same: The Basics of Language for Language Learners. This year, though, the institute will hold two week-long camps and will have a residential option in which participants will live in the dorms for the week. We have already begun planning, advertising, and fundraising for this year's camp. For more information or to help out in any way with SLIYS 2010, visit our website at ww.linguistics.osu.edu/SLIYS or email Julie McGory at jmcgory@ling.ohio-state.edu.
- Congrats to DJ Hovermale who was awarded one of only two outstanding professor awards for this year at the Student-Athlete Faculty Appreciation reception. DJ was nominated by Sophomore rifleman Jonathan Krabacher.
- Emeritus Professor Cathy Callaghan was awarded a $20,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for the project entitled "RAPID: Proto Utian (Miwok-Costanoan) Grammar and Dictionary: Description, Historical Reconstruction, and Theoretical Implications."
- It's a Girl! Congratulations to Robin Dautricourt and Safiya Lyles on the birth of their baby girl Annalise Rose Dautricourt, born on August 13, 2009.
- Faculty members Peter Culicover and Cynthia Clopper, along with John Grinstead and Laura Wagner of Psychology, won a Targeted Investment in Excellence Symposium award, 2009.
- Faculty member Beth Hume was chosen as a Faculty Honoree for the President's Salute to Undergraduate Achievement, The Ohio State University, 2009.
- In April 2009, Faculty member Brian Joseph was awarded a Grant-in-Aid, from the College of the Arts and Humanities to fund a trip to Nijmegen, The Netherlands to read a paper at the International Conference on Historical Linguistics and to take part in International Seminar for Albanian Language, Literature, and Culture, Prishtina, Kosovo (August 2009).
- Graduate Student Yusuke Kubota has been awarded a 3 year postdoctoral fellowship ("JSPS Research Fellowships for Young Scientists") from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He will begin his new position in Spring 2010.
- Graduate student Na'im Tyson received the Post-Prospectus Award from the College of Humanities for the Summer term of 2009.
- Graduate student Jungmee Lee was awarded $1,000 for the 2009 David Dowty Travel Award for travel to attend SALT in Vancouver, BC in April 2010.
- Faculty member Brian Joseph along with alum, Andrea Sims '06, was awarded $5,000 for the Research and Creative Activity Grant, College of the Arts and Humanities for the 17th Balkan and South Slavic Conference (April 2010).
- Professor Brian Joseph led a group of 10 OSU representatives, including undergraduate major Kevin Gabbard (class of 2010), recent linguistics minor undergraduate Natalie Mauser-Carter (class of 2009), and Ph.D. students Angelo Costanzo and Rachel Klippenstein, to spend two weeks in Prishtina, the capital of the Republic of Kosovo (in the southern part of former Yugoslavia). They attended the University of Prishtina's Summer Seminar in the Albanian Language, Literature, and Culture. They had prepared for the trip by taking part in a "Mini-Institute on Albanian Linguistics" in which Professor Joseph taught a three-week compressed course entitled "Introduction to Albanian Linguistics" and Matthew Curtis, Ph.D. candidate in Slavic Linguistics here at Ohio State, taught a companion course entitled "Basic Conversational Albanian". The two weeks were judged by one and all to be a success, and everyone learned much about Albanian, about life in the Balkans, and about Kosovo and its recent tumultuous history. One highlight among many was forming a double-tiered "O-H-I-O" on the steps of the University's modernistic library.
- Katy Bauer - "Suprasegmental stress in Ki-Nubi, an Arabic Creole."
- Nicole Holliday - "Variable Ontological Semantic Properties of Noun Meanings Across American English Dialects."
- Kevin Gabbard - "Af Soomaali Phonology."
DJ with Advisor of the Year winner Karrie Mills
Annalise Rose Dautricourt
Double-tiered "O-H-I-O" on the steps of the University's modernistic library.
OSU's newest student organization, The Black Chamber Society, was recently founded by students in DJ Hovermale's LING 484 (Codemaking and Code Breaking) course. Ashley Johnson, who added linguistics as a major this quarter, describes how the club came into being: "Several of us were walking back to DJ's office with him during the last week of the course and we were discussing how much fun we had doing cryptography this quarter and how sad we were that it was going to be over. I don't remember who came up with the idea of forming a club, but when we got to DJ's office we made some calls, filled out the necessary paperwork, got our officers trained, and about 4 hours later the club was official." Ashley will be serving as the organization's first president. Chris Brew will serve as the faculty advisor to the club, whose membership has expanded to more than 40 in just 2 weeks. The Black Chamber Society is open to anyone who has an interest in codes and cryptography. They will hold an organizational meeting on January 4, 2010 at 5:30 PM. For more information please contact Chris Brew or DJ Hovermale. IBWF B IBQQZ OFX ZFBS!
Well done to our undergraduate students who participated in the Undergraduate Research Office's Undergraduate Research Day 2009.
Katy Bauer presenting her poster
Nichole Holliday
Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students and Scholars
- BA/MA student, Sarah Bibyk, and senior researcher, Kiwako Ito, were both selected to present at this year's Boston University Conference on Language Development 34 (BUCLD). Together, they presented, Bibyk, S., Ito, K., Wagner, L., & Speer, S. "Children can use contrastive pitch accent in on-line processing". Kiwako also presented, Ito, K., Jincho, N., Yamane, N., Minai, U., & Mazuka, R. "Use of emphatic pitch prominence for contrast resolution: An eye-tracking study with 6-year old and adult Japanese listeners".
- Preiss, Judita, Jon Dehdari, Josh King, and Dennis Mehay. 2009. Refining the most frequent sense baseline. In Proceedings of the NAACL HLT Workshop on Semantic Evaluations (SEW-2009), 10-18, Boulder, Colorado.
Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Ilana Heintz, Eric Fosler-Lussier, and Chris Brew. "Discriminative Input Stream Combination for Conditional Random Field Phone Recognition." IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Language Processing, November 2009.
- Ilana Heintz, Mary Beckman, Eric Fosler-Lussier, and Lucie Menard. "Evaluating parameters for mapping adult vowels to imitative babbling." Proceedings of Interspeech 2009. Brighton, UK, September 2009.
- Na'im Tyson. (to appear). "Prosodic Rules for Schwa-Deletion in Hindi Text-to-Speech Synthesis." International Journal of Speech Technology.
- Marivic Lesho presented a paper "Modality in Zamboangueño" at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium in San Juan, Puerto Rico in October, 2009.
- Stephen Boxwell presented a paper titled "Brutus: A Semantic Role Labeling System Incorporating CCG, CFG, and Dependency features" (coauthored with Dennis Mehay and Chris Brew) at the main ACL conference in Singapore.
- Ilana Heintz, Eric Fosler-Lussier, and Chris Brew. (2009). "Discriminative Input Stream Combination for Conditional Random Field Phone Recognition." IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Language Processing, November 2009.
- Angelo Constnzo presented a paper titled "Orale vre! Sociolinguistic aspects of Greek's 'unceremonious mode address'"at the International Conference of Greek Linguistics in October.
- Several of our graduate students and Brian Joseph presented at the International Conference on Historical Linguistics Conference 19 in August at the Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands.
- Angelo Costanzo - "On Variation in South Danubian Balkan Romance Conjugational Classes."
- Julia Papke - "The Indo-European Character of Sanskrit Preverb Ordering".
- Salena Sampson - "Variation with _w_ in Old and Middle English Consonant Clusters: A Wynn-Winn Situation."
- Bridget Smith - "Putting together the pieces: An intra-disciplinary look at sound change."
- Christin Wilson - "A Closer Look at Early Language Contact through Troubadour Poetry."
Faculty Members
- Mary Beckman:
- Beckman, M. E., & Edwards, J. (to appear). "Generalizing over lexicons to predict consonant mastery." To appear in Laboratory Phonology, 11(1).
- Gooden, S., Drayton, K.-A., & Beckman, M. E. (2009). "Tone inventories and tune-text alignments: Prosodic variation in 'hybrid' prosodic systems." Studies in Language, 33(2), 354-394.
- Li, F., Edwards, J., & Beckman, M. E. (2009). "Contrast and covert contrast: The phonetic development of voiceless sibilant fricatives in English and Japanese toddlers." Journal of Phonetics, 37(1), 111-124.
- Arbisi-Kelm, T., & Beckman, M. E. (2009). "Prosodic structure and consonant development across languages." In Marina Vigário, Sónia Frota, & Maria João Freitas (eds.) Interactions in phonetics and phonology. pp. 109-136. John Benjamins.
- Heintz, I., Beckman, M. E., Fosler-Lussier, E., & Ménard, L. (2009). "Evaluating parameters for mapping adult vowels to imitative babbling." InterSpeech2009, 6-10 September 2009,University of Brighton.
- Kathryn Campbell-Kibler:
- Campbell-Kibler, K. (2009). "The nature of sociolinguistic perception". Language Variation and Change. 21(1):135-156.
- Campbell-Kibler, K. (2009) "Attitudes and Variation: What is the Attitude Object?" Poznan Linguistic Meeting in Gniezno, Poland.
- Cynthia Clopper:
- Clopper, C. G. (in press). "Computational methods for normalizing acoustic vowel data for talker differences." Language and Linguistics Compass.
- Pierrehumbert, J. B., & Clopper, C. G. (forthcoming). "What is LabPhon? And where is it going?" Laboratory Phonology 10. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
- Peter Culicover:
- Culicover, Peter & Hume, Elizabeth. (In press). The Basics of Language for Language Learners. Columbus, OH: OSU Press.
- Culicover, Peter W. (2009). "Simpler Syntax." In Bernd Heine and Heiko Narrog (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Hupp, Julie M., Sloutsky, Vladimir M., & Culicover, Peter W. (2009). "Evidence for a Domain General Mechanism Underlying Suffixation Preference in Language." Language and Cognitive Processes.
- Culicover, Peter. "Symposium on Language and Memory. Linear order and informativity." Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam. July 31, 2009.
- Culicover, Peter. "Linear order effects in computing grammatical dependencies." University of Tuebingen, Workshop on Focus and Constructions. July 25, 2009.
- Culicover, Peter. "Linear order effects in computing grammatical dependencies." University of Mainz, July 20, 2009
- Beth Hume:
- Culicover, Peter & Hume, Elizabeth. (in press). The Basics of Language for Language Learners. Columbus, OH: OSU Press.
- Hume, Elizabeth, Venditti, Jennifer, Vella, Alexandra and Gett, Samantha. (2009). "Vowel Duration and Maltese 'gh'." Introducing Maltese Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins
- Hume, Elizabeth. (Forthcoming). "Uncertainty, Expectation and Language: Understanding Markedness."
- Hume, E. (2008). "Markedness and the Language User." Phonological Studies, vol. 11.
- Brian Joseph:
- Joseph, Brian. (2009). "So just what is sound change anyway?", International Conference on Historical Linguistics Conference 19 in August at the Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands.
- Joseph, Brian. (2009). "Change in Gender Systems: Some Commentary". International Conference on Historical Linguistics Conference 19 in August at the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
- Joseph, Brian. (2009). The Synchrony and Diachrony of the Balkan Infinitive: A Study in Areal, General, and Historical Linguistics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, Supplementary Series, 1983. Pp. 341 + xiv. Reissued in paperback.
- Hock. Hans H. & Joseph, Brian. (2009). Language Change, Language History, and Language Relationship. An Introduction to Historical Linguistics. 2nd ed. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, in Trends in Linguistics - Studies and Monographs series, 1996. Pp. 608 + xxx.
- Steven Franks, Vrinda Chidambaram, and Brian Joseph, eds. (2009). A Linguist's Linguist. Festschrift in Honor of Wayles Browne. Bloomington: Slavica Publishers, 2009.
- David Odden:
- Odden, David. (2009). "Tachoni verbal tonology." Language Sciences 31: 305-324.
- Odden, David. "Features impinging on tone." Symposium in Honor of G. Nick Clements, Paris June 18-19, 2009.
- Carl Pollard:
- Pollard, C. (In press). "Hyperintensional questions." In W. Hodges and R. de Queiroz, eds., Proceedings of the 15th Annual Workshop on Logic, Language, Information, and Computation (WoLLIC 08): Heriot-Watt University 2008. Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 5110:261-274.
- Pollard, C. (To appear). "Remarks on Categorical Grammar." in Journal of Applied Logic.
- Pollard, C. (To appear). "Hyperintensions." in a special issue of The Journal of Logic and Computation on lambda calculus, type theory, and natural language.
- De Groote, P., S. Pogodalla, and C. Pollard. (2009). "Convergent Grammar, Abstract Categorial Grammar, and the syntax-semantics interface." In Proceedings of the 16th Annual Workshop on Logic, Language, Information, and Computation (WoLLIC 2009): University of Tokyo. Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.
- Kubota, Y. and C. Pollard. (2009). "Phonological interpretation into preordered algeras." Mathematics of Language 11: Bielefeld, Germany, August 2009.
- Craige Roberts:
- Roberts, C. (2009). "know-how: A compositional approach". In Erhard Hinrichs and John Nerbonne (eds.) Theory and Evidence in Semantics, CSLI Press, 183-213.
- Roberts, C. (2009). "Retrievability: Discourse constraints on anaphora and the problem of incomplete descriptions" at the Workshop on Anaphora, Philosophy Department, University of Michigan, April, 2009.
- Roberts, Craige. (to appear). "Topic". In Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger & Paul Portner (eds.) Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning. Mouton de Gruyter.
- Roberts, C. (to appear). "Only: Presupposition and Implicature." in Journal of Semantics.
- Shari Speer:
- Speer, S.R., Warren, P., & Schafer, A.J. (under revision). "Situationally independent prosody." Journal of Memory and Language.
- Xu, L., & Speer, S. R. (under revision). "Processing lexical tone in third-tone sandhi." Laboratory Phonology 11.
- Speer, S. R. & Ito, K. (2009). "Prosody in first language acquisition - Acquiring intonation as a tool to organize information in conversation." Language and Linguistics Compass, 3(1), 90-110.
- Ito, K., & Speer, S.R. (to appear). "Anticipatory effects of intonation: Eye movements during instructed visual search." Journal of Memory and Language, Special issue on Language-Vision interaction.
- Judith Tonhauser:
- Lee, J. & Tonhauser, J. (under review). "Temporal interpretation without tense: Coordination constructions in Korean and Japanese".
- Tonhauser, J. (to appear). "The Paraguayan Guaraní future marker -ta : Formal semantics and cross-linguistic comparison." Rathert, Monika and Renate Musan (eds.) Tense Across Languages, Tübingen: Niemeyer.
- Tonhauser, J. & Colijn, E. (to appear). "Word order in Paraguayan Guaraní", The International Journal of American Linguistics.
- Tonhauser, J. (to appear). "Nominal tense? The meaning of Guaraní nominal temporal markers". Language 83.4.
- Michael White:
- White, M. & Rajkumar, R. (2009). "Perceptron Reranking for CCG Realization." In Proc. of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2009).
- Rajakrishnan Rajkumar, Michael White and Dominic Espinosa. (2009). "Exploiting Named Entity Classes in CCG Surface Realization." Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL HLT 2009). (poster)
- Scott Martin, Rajakrishnan Rajkumar and Michael White. (2009) "Grammar Engineering for CCG using Ant and XSLT." In Proc. of the NAACL HLT 2009 Workshop on Software Engineering, Testing and Quality Assurance for Natural Language Processing (SETQA-NLP 2009). (poster)
- Donald Winford
- Isurin, Ludmila, Winford, Donald & deBot, Kees, eds. (2009). Multidisciplinary Approaches to Code Switching. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Consider joining us for one (or more) of the exciting events taking place at OSU in 2009 and 2010. Events are always being added, so please check the Department Calendar at http://linguistics.osu.edu/newsEvents/default.cfm.
Friday - January 15, 2010 - 3:30 pm to 6:00 pm, Kirk Hazen (U of West Virginia Dialect Project): Annual Pedagogy Lecture, Location: tba. Contact: Brian Joseph at joseph.1@osu.edu
Friday - January 29, 2010 - All day. Buckeye Language Network Symposium, Location: Room 35 of the Psychology Building. Contact: Elizabeth Hume at hume-ohaire.1@osu.edu
Friday - February 5, 2010 - 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm, Paul Portner (Georgetown University): Invited Lecture, Location: tba. Contact: Michael White at white.1240@osu.edu
Thursday - April 15, 2010, 17th Balkan & South Slavic Conference, Location: tba. Contact: Brian Joseph at joseph.1@osu.edu
Friday - April 16, 2010 - 3:30 pm to 6:00 pm, Eric P. Hamp (U of Chicago): Kenneth E. Naylor Memorial Lecture, Location: tba. Contact: Brian Joseph at joseph.1@osu.edu
Friday - May 28, 2010 - 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm, Jason Baldridge (U of Texas at Austin): Invited Lecture, Location: Jennings 40. Contact: Michael White at white.1240@osu.edu
In case you missed them, here are a few of the many events hosted by or for linguists in our community.
November 20, 2009 - Mary Paster (Pomona College): Linguistics Alumni Lecture Series
October 27, 2009 - Special Lecture by Mark Janse (U of Ghent): "Phonological variation in Cappadocian -- Dental friction and what to do if you can't".
October 20, 2009- Visit and lecture(s) by Mark Janse (U of Ghent): "On Asia Minor Greek and Language Contact".
June 5, 2009 Spring Symposium on Multiple Perspectives on the Critical Period for Language.
May 29, 2009 Sally McConnell-Ginet (Professor Emeritus, Cornell University): Invited Speaker Lectures.
May 18, 2009 Marc Greenberg (U of Kansas): Kenneth E. Naylor Memorial Lecture
May 8, 2009 Walt Wolfram (N.C. State): Annual Lecture in Honor of Linguistics Undergraduates.
January 16, 2009 Maria Bittner (Rutgers):"Nominal and temporal anaphora in Chinese": Invited Speaker Lectures.
April 24, 2009 Academy of Teaching Mini-Conference
April 17, 2009 Lyle Campbell (Utah) : Emeritus Faculty Talk Series in Honor of Cathy Callaghan
April 03, 2009 The 19th Annual Meeting of the Semantics and Linguistics Theory (SALT) Conference.
March 6, 2009 Kathryn Campbell-Kibler: "'That's still country now': Measuring and Imagining Variation in Ohio": Faculty Research Presentation Series.
March 6, 2009 Yoshiko Matsumoto (Stanford): "Bringing context into constructions: Variations in Japanese honorifics": Invited Speaker Lectures.
February 27, 2009 Erhard Hinrichs: "Computational Dialectometry -- Analysis and Visualization."
January 30, 2009 David M. Perlmutter -- Annual Pedagogy Lecture: Professor Emeritus (UCal, San Diego).
January 19, 2009 Biology-Linguistics Nexus: MLK Day 2009 Workshop.
Tell us (and your fellow alums) how life on the outside is! Email us at lingalumni@ling.osu.edu with updates, including new jobs, publications, schools, graduation announcements, births, marriages, etc.
Kim Darnell '98 won the 2009 Image Award for Faculty Member of the Year from the Georgia State University Chapter of the NAACP
Paul D. Fallon '98 was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. In addition to introductory linguistics, he teaches undergraduate courses in phonology, morphology, history of English, writing systems of the world, and accents of American English. Paul has worked on various research projects on Blin, a Cushitic language of Eritrea, where he has also conducted fieldwork.
Melissa Gibson '07 joined the Peace Corps and is stationed in Ukraine.
Shelome Gooden '93 was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure, Department of Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh this past fall.
Beth Myre '03 changed tracks a bit, and received an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Michigan Technological University in 2008. After graduation, she spent a year doing water and sanitation work in Haiti and was recently hired as the Source Water Program Manager for Rhode Island, working for the Atlantic States Rural Water and Wastewater Association.
John Nerbonne '84 edited a special issue of Lingua, 'The Forests behind the Trees'. Lingua 119 (11), pp. 1581-1778, Nov. 2009. Articles by Michael Dunn, Sjef Barbiers, Jan-Wouter Zwart, Bernd Kortmann and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Pino Longobardi and Marco Spruit, Wilbert Heeringa and john explore large collections of syntactic information. The dream behind the effort is to identify tendencies in the aggregate which are genuine, but not universal, and so remain elusive when examined otherwise.
Liz Strand and Dean Cimini
Liz Strand '00 and Dean Cimini were married in the rain on October 3, 2009, at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Liz earned her PhD in 2000 from the OSU Department of Linguistics. Her dissertation is titled "Gender Stereotype Effects in Speech Processing," and her dissertation advisors were Keith Johnson, Mary Beckman, and Don Winford. Dean earned his MBA in 1998 from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Liz and Dean both work at Microsoft in Mountain View, California, in the "Speech At Microsoft" group, which was recently created to integrate all speech recognition and TTS-related efforts from across the company into a single organization. Liz runs a design team within the engineering arm of the group, and Dean is an account director within the sales component of the group. They split their time between homes in San Francisco and McKinney, Texas.
Mike Cahill '99's daughter, Deborah, got married in April, and she and her husband are joining Summer Institute of Linguistics, Inc (SIL) like her parents (without any pressure, even!).
How about a few of our new graduate students, showing their spirit? O-H-I-O!
O-Rory Turnbull, H-Brice Russ, I- Murat Yasavul, O-Jane Mitsch
Apple picking at Lynd Fruit Farm
Katie Carmichael and Marivic Lesho ARE tall enough to corn maze!
Our own little bumblebee, Mike Phelan
The newbies aren't the only ones who can rock!
Chris Worth-Vocals, Jon Dehdari-Drums, Andrew Plummer-Guitar and Sara Phillips-Groupie
Left to Right, Salena Sampson, Bridget Smith, Angelo Costanzo, Christin Wilson, Brian Joseph, and Julia Papke (with Owain)
Salena with a side of fries
Bridget, Christin and world's largest pink cow
The Faculty Appreciation Dinner at Beth's was a sing-song affair with Professor Emeritus, Ilse Lehiste, teaching everyone a Finnish folksong in Estonian.
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