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Greetings from the Linguistics Department!
Welcome to the 2nd issue of the Department of Linguistics Newsletter! In it, you'll get a glimpse of some of the activities, accomplishments and news of current and former members of the Department. As you'll see, 2007-2008 was an extremely busy and intellectually stimulating year. The Department hosted five workshops and symposia on topics relating to linguistic fieldwork, semantics, code-switching, variation, and indigenous languages of the Americas. We were also fortunate to have invited speakers from OSU and elsewhere including Emmon Bach (UMass, Amherst & SOAS), Mahe' Ben Hamed (Lyon), Kathryn Bock (UIUC), Dan Collins (OSU, Slavic), Shelome Gooden (Univ. of Pittsburgh; OSU '03), John Hale (MSU), David Harrison (Swarthmore), David Odden (OSU, Linguistics), Dennis Preston (MSU), Craige Roberts (OSU, Linguistics), among others.
Of course, we can't work all the time so we also enjoyed, among other activities, Happy Hours in the department lounge the first Friday of each month, a picnic in Whetstone Park, a dessert party at Chris Brew's house, chocolate making at Beth Hume's house, and an end-of-the year cookout at Julie McGory's home.
 Undergraduate student, Samantha Gett, and Maltese dignitaries at the 1st Meeting of the Maltese Linguistics Society in Bremen, Germany, Fall '07 Excellence in research and teaching continues to define Linguistics at OSU. As you'll learn below, an impressive number of the department members, undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty were honored for their accomplishments in teaching and research throughout the year. The OSU Graduate School also ranked the Department of Linguistics as one of the top 12 programs at OSU in its recent Assessment of Graduate Programs (not that we were surprised! :).
Linguistics at Ohio State extends well beyond the Department of Linguistics. In fact, there are close to 60 faculty from more than 14 departments who study language at OSU and these individuals make up the Buckeye Language Network. Building on the success of the first BLN Symposium, many faculty and students got together this past winter for a stimulating and productive workshop with the goal of generating new ideas about how to enhance interaction and collaborations among those who study language at OSU. Among the top priorities identified at the workshop was the development of a graduate interdisciplinary minor in language sciences, which we hope to have approved by the end of this coming academic year.
 This year is looking to be just as active as the current one! This summer alone we hosted the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, the Linguistic Society of America 2008 Summer Meeting for undergraduate and graduate
students, and a Summer Mini-Institute featuring the following workshops:
- Quantitative methods for linguistics (Mary Beckman)
- ToBi labeling (Julie McGory)
- Corpus-based Computational Linguistics (Chris Brew and Mike White)
- Eye-tracking methodology (Kiwako Ito and Shari Speer)
- Methods of Analysis in Sociophonetic Research (Robert Fox, Ewa Jacewicz and Joseph Salmons)
We depend on the financial support of past and present members of the Department to fund many of these activities. Over the past year, we used contributions to bring in visiting scholars to give lectures to the Linguistics community. Your support also allowed us to reinstate the Emeritus Lecture Series in honor of our Emeritus faculty and to provide funds to undergraduate and graduate students to assist them with research expenses such as subject fees, language consultant fees, conference support and conference poster printing. Please contribute to the Department to the extent that you are able; your support is crucial to its continued success!
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I hope you enjoy reading about OSU Linguistics in this issue of the newsletter and, as always, welcome your comments and suggestions, which can be sent to lingalumni@ling.osu.edu
Go Bucks!
Beth Hume, Chair
 Peter Culicover Peter Culicover was awarded the University Distinguished Scholar Award this year, which recognizes exceptional scholarly accomplishments by senior professors who have compiled a substantial body of research. Known for his research on the balance between structure (syntax) and meaning (semantics) in the production and interpretation of sentences, he also has the ability to combine his love for linguistics with his breadth of interests in other fields — ranging from psychology to philosophy to computer science — which has put him at the forefront of the study of human language. Peter is also praised for the sheer amount of scholarly output he has generated. During his eight years as department chair, he produced three books and numerous academic publications. In all, he has authored or co-authored 55 articles, 19 technical reports and nine books — two of which are widely used and highly influential textbooks about theoretical syntax. “Peter Culicover is a major figure in the field of linguistics, whose work has important implications for neighboring disciplines,” one colleague said. “He is prolific, and his work is both original and deep.”
Peter received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971 and has been with the OSU Department of Linguistics for 21 years. He is currently exploring the consequences of representing knowledge of language as the configuration of a dynamical system, and the relationship between complexity and explanation in grammatical theory. These are closely related themes, and both have implications for linguistic theory, linguistic description, language change and variation, language acquisition, and language processing.
Peter grew up in the Bronx. In high school, Peter read Edward Sapir’s Language and thought it was interesting, piquing his curiosity about linguistics.
Peter’s hobbies include Jazz piano, cooking, and yoga. Did you know that Peter played bluegrass mandolin in high school and in a band in college? Jazz, Classical, and World Music are a few of Peter’s favorites, including Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Eagles, Thelonious Monk, Ottmar Liebart, and the Beach Boys. He loves: The Alexandria Quartet, by Lawrence Durrell, Casablanca, chocolate, and Japanese and Italian cuisine. Peter resides in Clintonville with his wife Diane, who he has been married to for 25 years. Peter has one son who is currently attending OSU.
 Yusuke Kubota is a graduate student in his 4th year. Yusuke’s research interests lie in Japanese syntax and semantics, such as cleft, internally headed relative clauses, anaphora (especially the theoretical treatment of null anaphora), syntax of complex
predicates, and nontransformational theories of grammar (in particular, HPSG and categorial grammar). He recently published “The scope interpretation of complex
predicates in Japanese: A unified lexicalist analysis” in the Journal of Linguistics, a highly prestigious feat! He also recently presented at the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Relative Clauses Conference and the 7th
Annual Syntax and Semantics Conference. He comes to us from
the University of Tokoyo, where he received both his B.A. and M.A. Yusuke got interested in English in high
school (loving it even more than math!) and that brought him to Linguistics. Sleep and listening to early music of Western
Europe, particularly harpsichord music, is what Yusuke likes to do in his free time.
 Teresa Pratt Teresa Pratt, an undergraduate major in Linguistics, is in her third year at OSU. She calls Cincinnati, OH her
hometown. Teresa is President of UnderLings, is on the OSU Student-Alumni Council, and is involved in local theater productions.
Loving her high school Spanish class so much, Teresa read a college brochure about a Spanish and linguistics
interdisciplinary program and decided to look into it. She gave linguistics a try, and found out it was the perfect match for
her! Teresa just returned from a summer in Washington, DC interning at the Center for Applied Linguistics, developing
curriculum for a dialect awareness program for first-year English composition courses. She was with the John Glenn
Institute’s Washington Academic Internship Program, with 20 other Ohio State students, and lived just 5 minutes from the
Kennedy Center and Watergate, and 10 minutes from Georgetown. In her spare time, what there is of it, Teresa enjoys TV on
DVD, musicals, bargain shopping, and reading. Some of her favorites are: The Red Tent, Iron Jawed Angels,
Love Actually, Aida, Ethiopian food, folk music from the 60s/70s, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and Simon & Garfunkel.
 Joanna Anderson , the newest addition to the OSU Linguistics main office, is from rural central “Ohia”. She received two B.A.s from OSU in
English Literature and History. Joanna has a Master’s in Library and Information Science from Kent State University.
Research is something that Joanna is passionate about and she also works part-time as Coordinator of Reference Services at Columbus State
Community College in the evenings and on weekends. At home, Joanna has a 12 year old daughter, Moira, two cats and a gecko.
In the community, she volunteers for recycling pickup at Comfest every year and with the Upper Scioto River Watershed
Project. Joanna loves to backpack, go hiking and fishing, as well as try new recipes, but she is known for her Guinness
Stew. A few of Joanna’s favorites are: The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Steppenwolf, by Herman Hesse, anything by
Charles Bukowski, the movies Dr. Strangelove and The Elephant Man, bluegrass and Baroque music. Her favorite songs ever
are Suite Judy Blue Eyes and Sugar Magnolia.
The Psycholinguistics Laboratory
 A few of the Psycholinguistics Researchers Eun Jong Kong, Jeonghwa Shin, Xu Lei, Ross Metusalem, Anouschka Bergmann, and Laurie Maynell The Psycholinguistics Lab in OSU Linguistics consists of a group of dedicated researchers, students and technical staff, and is headed by Shari Speer (Professor) and Kiwako Ito (Research Scientist). Members of the lab share interests in a broad range of issues in sentence/discourse processing, and discuss each
ongoing project actively inside and outside the regular lab meetings. Each member of the lab benefits from constant feedback
from the others throughout the development of study. As a result, the lab is generating a large amount of collaborative
research. The Psycholinguistics Lab is equipped with two eye tracking systems (ASL 6000 & Tobii 1750). The ASL eye tracking
system incorporates the detection of head rotations for tracking the eye movements of participants, and thus allows
experiments involving real-world objects (that participants can touch and move) as well as monitor-based visual search tasks.
The Tobii eye tracking system is based on simultaneous detection of the location of two pupils and is set up for
monitor-based experiments. The short calibration time on the Tobii system makes it especially useful for examining children's
eye movements. The lab also has three soundproof booths with computers for recording voice responses and button/key
responses. Each soundproof booth has a high-quality microphone and preamplifier which allows collection of high-quality
voice data for production studies. Most of the ongoing experiments use Eprime software for the presentation of stimuli.
Undergraduate Linguistics major Victoria Cook was awarded the 2008 Elizabeth Kiss Amstutz Scholarship for excellence from the
College of Humanities.
Faculty member Cynthia Clopper, was one of five recipients of this year's Distinguished Undergraduate Mentor Awards, presented to her at
the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum.
 Anouschka Bergmann Anouschka Bergmann is awarded Graduate Teaching Award by Associate Dean Elliot Slotnick. Graduate Students Julia Papke and Helena Riha successfully passed their Candidacy Exams.
Faculty member, Brian Joseph, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from The University of Patras, Greece.
Some Presentations and Publications by Current Members of the Department
Graduate Students and Scholars
Graduate students, Kirk Baker and Helen Riha gave a presentation at the American Association for Corpus Linguistics Conference (AACL 2008)
Provo, Utah March 2008 and another one at the 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20) OSU, April
2008.
Stephen Boxwell and Michael White. (2008). "Projecting Propbank Roles onto the CCGbank." To appear in Proc. of the Sixth
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-08).
Dominic Espinosa, Michael White and Dennis Mehay. (2008). "Hypertagging: Supertagging for Surface Realization with CCG." To
appear in Proc. of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
(ACL-08: HLT).
Kiwako Ito:
- Ito, K. & Speer, S. (2008). “Predictive use of contrastive intonation in visual search: Intersective color vs. subsective scalar
adjectives.” Poster presented at the 21th Annual CUNY Conference, Chapel Hill, NC.
- Metusalem, R. & Ito, K. (2008). “The Effect of Contrastive Accent in Discourse Construction.” Poster presented at the 21th Annual
CUNY Conference, Chapel Hill, NC.
- D. Byron, D. Shockley, S. Brown-Schmidt, K. Ito, & S. Speer. (2008). “Effects of Non-linear Discourse structure on Interpreting
Ambiguous Noun Phrases.” Poster presented to the 21th Annual CUNY Conference, Chapel Hill, NC (March 2008).
- N. Jincho, K. Ito, N. Yamane, U. Minai, & R. Mazuka. (2008). “Effects of visual contrast in pre-nominal modifier phrase
comprehension in Japanese: an eye tracking experiment with children and adults.” Poster presented to the 21th Annual CUNY
Conference, Chapel Hill, NC.
Yusuke Kubota. (2007). "The scope interpretation of complex predicates
in Japanese: A unified lexicalist analysis." Journal of Linguistics 43(3), 489--530.
Faculty Members
Mary Beckman:
- Gooden, S., Drayton, K.-A., & Beckman, M. E. (in review). “Tone inventories and tune-text alignments.” Studies in
Language.
- Edwards, J., & Beckman, M. E. (in press, 2008). “Some cross-linguistic evidence for modulation of implicational
universals by language-specific frequency effects in the acquisition of consonant phonemes.” Language Learning and
Development, 4.
- M. E. Beckman, K. Hall & F. Li presented “Sibilant fricatives in Japanese and English: Different in
production or perception?” 2008 Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, IL. (With Benjamin Munson and
Kioyoko Yoneyama.)
Chris Brew:
- I Heintz & C Brew. (Accepted, 2008). "Language Modeling for Local and Modern Standard Arabic." The International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation 2008 workshop, HLT in The Arabic World: Arabic Language and local languages processing: Status Updates and Prospects.
- I. Heintz, E. Fosler-Lussier, and C. Brew. (2008). "Latent Phonetic Analysis: Use of Singular Value Decomposition to Determine Features for CRF Phone Recognition." International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2008.
- Li, Jianguo & Brew, Chris. (2008). "Which are the Best Features for
Automatic Verb Classification." To appear in Proceedings of the 46th Annual
Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Columbus,
Ohio.
- Li, Jianguo Kirk Baker and Chris Brew. (2008).
"A Corpus Study of Levin's Verb Classification."American Association for Corpus Linguistics.
Provo, Utah. March 13-15, 2008.
Kathryn Campbell-Kibler:
- Campbell-Kibler, K. (2007). “Accent, (ING) and the social logic of listener perceptions".” American Speech 82(1):32-64.
- Campbell-Kibler, K. (2008). “Methods for the study of the social structure of linguistic variation.” in BLS 32
Proceedings, Berkeley Linguistics Society.
Cynthia Clopper:
- Clopper, C. G. (PI) (in review). “Development of Sociolinguistic Competence.” National Institutes of Health (NICHD) R03
Research Grant.
- Clopper, C. G. (in press). “Auditory free classification: Methods and analysis.” Behavior Research Methods.
- Clopper, C. G., & Bradlow, A. R. (in press). “Perception of dialect variation in noise: Intelligibility and
classification.” Language and Speech.
- 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 W. and S. Winker. (in review). "English focus inversion constructions." Journal of Linguistics.
- Culicover, Peter W. (in review). “The birth and death of constructions: the case of English dosupport.” Journal of
Linguistics.
Beth Hume:
- Hume, E. (2008). “Markedness and the Language User.” Phonological Studies, vol. 11.
- Boomershine, A., K. C. Hall, E. Hume & K. Johnson (2008). “The impact of allophony vs. contrast on speech
perception.” In P. Avery, E. Dresher & K. Rice (eds.), Phonological Contrast. Mouton.
- Hume, Elizabeth. "Expectation and its Role in Phonologization and Language Change." Paper presented at the Symposium on Phonologization. University of Chicago. April 25-26, 2008.
- Hume, Elizabeth, Jennifer Venditti, Alexandra Vella and Samantha Gett. (in press). "Vowel Duration and Maltese ‘gh’." To appear in IlSienna: Journal of the International Association for Maltese Linguistics.
Brian Joseph:
- Joseph, B. (2008). "Authorship Provenance in Language – An increasingly international scope" (with Hope C. Dawson). Paper
presented at Annual Meeting of the North American Association of the History of the Language Sciences (NAAHoLS), Chicago,
January 5, 2008.
- Joseph, B. (2008). "Commentary on Le patrimonie plurilingue de la Grèce" to be presented at a Book Panel at the Annual Meeting of
ANS (Association of Nationality Studies), Columbia University, New York, April 11, 2008.
- Joseph, B. (2008). “Is there such a thing as “phonologization” sensu etymologico (or otherwise)?”. Paper to be presented
at Symposium on Phonologization, University of Chicago, April 26, 2008.
- Joseph, B. (2008). “Questions and Answers (with H. P. Brown and R. E. Wallace).” A New Historical Syntax of Latin, ed.
by P. Baldi. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
- Joseph, B. (2008). “Historical Linguistics in 2008: The state of the art.” Papers from ICL/CIL 18 (International
Congress of Linguists 18). John Benjamins Publishers.
David Odden:
- Odden, D. (2008). “Linguistics and the Study of Africa.” John Middleton (ed) New Encyclopedia of Africa, 315-317.
Detroit: Thomson/Gale.
- Odden, D. and Marlo, M. (2007). “The exponence of TAM in Bakweri. Bantu in Bloomsbury: Special issue on Bantu
linguistics.” SOAS WPIL 15: 19-31.
- Odden, D. (2007). “Features impinging on tone.” paper presented at The Phonological Basis of Phonological Features, University of Tromsø,
Sept. 28-29.
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. (2007). “Nonlocal dependencies via variable contexts.” In R.Muskens, ed., Proceedings of the Workshop on New
Directions in Type-Theoretic Grammar. ESSLLI 2007, Dublin.
- Pollard, C. (To appear). “Hyperintensions.” in a special issue of The Journal of Logic and Computation on lambda
calculus, type theory, and natural language.
- Pollard, C. (2008). “Hyperintensions.” Journal of Logic and Computation 18.2:257-282.
Craige Roberts:
- Roberts, C. (to appear). “Only: Presupposition and Implicature.”in Journal of Semantics.
Shari Speer:
- 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.
- Speer, S.R. & Blodgett, A. (2007). “Prosody in language processing.” In M. Traxler & M. Gernsbacher (Eds.), Handbook of
Psycholinguistic Research, 2nd Edition. Elsevier.
Judith Tonhauser:
- Tonhauser, J. (to appear). “Defining cross-linguistic categories: The case of nominal tense. Reply to Nordlinger and Sadler” in ,Language 84.2.
- Tonhauser, J. (to appear). “Nominal tense? The meaning of Guaraní nominal temporal markers". Language 83.4.
Michael White:
- White, Ml. OpenCCG, Version 0.9.1.
- Espinosa, D., M. White and D. Mehay. (2008). “Hypertagging: Supertagging for Surface Realization with CCG.” To appear in
Proceedings ACL-08: HLT.
- Boxwell, S. and M. White. (2008). “Projecting Propbank Roles onto the CCG bank.” Proceeding of the Sixth
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-08).
- Vasile Rus, Arthur C. Graesser, Amanda Stent, Marilyn Walker and Michael White. (2007). Text-to-Text Generation. In Report from the Workshop on Shared Tasks and Comparative Evaluation in Natural Language Generation.
Don Winford:
- Winford, D. and B. Migge. (2007). “The influence of Gbe languages on the tense/aspect systems of the Surinamese creoles” B.
Migge and N. Smith (eds.). Transatlantic Sprachbund? Special issue of the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, Vol. 22.
In case you missed them, here are a few of the many events hosted by or for linguists in our community.
October 26, 2007-October 28, 2007
Mid Continental Workshop on Phonology (MCWOP)
December 6, 2007-December 8, 2007
Workshop on Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Code-Switching
January 21, 2008
MLK Day Workshop on American Indian Linguistics
February 9, 2008
Into the Field: Workshop on Fieldwork
February 18, 2008
The Meaning of the English Definite Article
College of Humanities 2007-2008 Inaugural Lecture Series presents "The Meaning of the English Definite Article" by Professor
Craige Roberts, Department of Linguistics
March 27, 2008
Emmon Bach: Lecture Series on Morphosemantics
April 10, 2008
K. David Harrison, Swarthmore College: Knowledge of Species and Eco-systems in Endangered Languages
April 10, 2008 The Linguists (Sundance Film Festival) featuring linguists David Harrison and Gregory Anderson
April 25, 2008
Language Planning in the Yugoslav Successor States: New Languages and Old Controversies: Robert Greenberg, University of New
Haven and Yale University
April 26, 2008
NACCL-20: The 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics
May 9, 2008
CogFest:Interactions between Social and Linguistic Sources of Variability in Speech Processing.
June 12-June 14, 2008
INLG 2008. 5th Annual International Natural Language Generation Meeting. Salt Fork, Ohio.
June 15-June 20, 2008
The 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
July 10-July 13, 2008
Linguistics Society of America Summer Meeting: Language as interface
 LSA Poster Presenters  Party at Beth's Home July 14-July 18, 2008
The Ohio State University 2008 Linguistics Mini-Institute
 Mini Institute Participants  Closing Reception for the
Mini-Institute
Consider joining us for one (or more) of the exciting events taking place at OSU in 2008
and 2009. Events are always being added, so please check the Department Calendar
Friday - September 26, 2008 - 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
John Goldsmith: Invited Speaker Lectures
Location: 122 Oxley Hall
Saturday - October 4, 2008 Buckeye Language Network Fall Symposium
Location: TBA
Saturday - October 18, 2008
In Search of Meaning in the Midwest
Location: TBA
Friday - January 16, 2009 - 3:30 pm
Maria Bittner
Location: Oxley 122
Monday - January 19, 2009 - 8:30 am to 5:00 pm
Biology-Linguistics Nexus: MLK 2009 Workshop
Location: 155 Jennings Hall
Friday - April 3, 2009
SALT: Semantics Conference
Location: TBA
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.
Mike Cahill '99, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington:
- Cahill, Mike. (2008). "Konni Vowel Feature Spread across Consonants." To appear in Selected Proceedings of the
38th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
- Cahill, Mike. (2007). Aspects of the Morphology and Phonology of Konni. Dallas: SIL International, Published PhD
dissertation.
- Cahill, Mike. (2007). "More Universals of Tone." SIL Electronic Working Papers 2007.
Kevin Cohen '96, Biomedical Text Mining Group Lead:
- K. Bretonnel Cohen and Lawrence Hunter. (2008) "Getting started in text mining." PLoS Computational Biology 4(1).
- Lawrence Hunter, Zhiyong Lu, James Firby, William A. Baumgartner Jr., Helen L. Johnson, Philip V. Ogren, and K. Bretonnel
Cohen. (2008) "OpenDMAP: An open-source, ontology-driven concept analysis engine, with applications to capturing knowledge
regarding protein transport, protein interactions and cell-specific gene expression." BMC Bioinformatics 9(78).
- J. Gregory Caporaso, Nita Deshpande, J. Lynn Fink, Philip E. Bourne, K. Bretonnel Cohen, and Lawrence Hunter. (2008)
"Intrinsic evaluation of text mining tools may not predict performance on realistic tasks." Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
13:640-651.
- William A. Baumgartner Jr., K. Bretonnel Cohen, and Lawrence Hunter. (2008). "An open-source framework for large-scale,
flexible evaluation of biomedical text mining systems." Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration 3:1.
- Pierre Zweigenbaum, Dina Demner-Fushman, Hong Yu, and Kevin B. Cohen. (2007). "Frontiers of biomedical text mining: current
progress." Briefings in Bioinformatics 8:358-375.
- John P. Pestian, Chris Brew, Pawel Matykiewicz, DJ Hovermale, Neil Johnson, K. Bretonnel Cohen, and Wlodzislaw Duch.
(2007). "A shared task involving multi-label classification of clinical free text." BioNLP 2007: Biological, translational, and
clinical language processing, pp. 97-104.
- William A. Baumgartner Jr., K. Bretonnel Cohen, Lynne Fox, George Acquaah-Mensah, and Lawrence Hunter. (2007). "Manual annotation is not sufficient for curating genomic databases." Bioinformatics 23:i41-i48.
- J. Gregory Caporaso, William A. Baumgartner Jr., David A. Randolph, K. Bretonnel Cohen, and Lawrence Hunter. (2007). "Developing high-performance information extraction systems by bootstrapping automatic regular expression
generation." Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology 5(6):1233-1259.
- Helen L. Johnson, William A. Baumgartner Jr., Martin Krallinger, K. Bretonnel Cohen, and Lawrence Hunter. (2007). "Corpus
refactoring: a feasibility study." Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration 2:4.
Sara Garnes '74, is now an Associate Professor Emeritus in English at OSU.
Keith Johnson' 88, Professor of Linguistics, UC Berkeley:
- Johnson, K. (2008). Quantitative Methods in Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Sarah L. Johnson '92, Associate Professor / Reference Librarian, Booth Library, Eastern Illinois University:
- Johnson, Sarah L. (2005). Historical Fiction: A Guide to the Genre. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited.
Fangfang Li (expected '08) has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at
the University of Lethbridge, Alberta beginning January 2009.
Jeff Mielke '04, Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa:
- Mielke, Jeff. (2008). The Emergence of Distinctive Features. Oxford University Press.
Jennifer Muller '02, Department of Defense:
- Congratulations to Jennifer Muller '02 and husband Dan Humphries on the birth of their daughter, Juliana born February 20,2008.
 Jen before. . .  and Juliana after!
Mary Paster '00, Assistant Professor, Pomona College:
- Jade Comfort and Mary Paster. (To Appear). "Notes on Lower Jubba Maay." Masangu Matondo, Fiona McLaughlin
and Eric Potsdam, eds., Selected Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
- Paster, Mary. (2007). "Aspects of Maay phonology and morphology." Studies in African Linguistics
35.1,: 73-120.
- Paster, Mary. (2008). "Phonologically conditioned suppletive allomorphy: Cross-linguistic results and theoretical
consequences." To appear in Bernard Tranel, ed., Understanding Allomorphy: Perspectives from OT. Advances in Optimality
Theory. London: Equinox.
- Katharine Dutcher and Mary Paster. “Contour tone distribution in Luganda.” Paper presented at the 27th West Coast
Conference on Formal Linguistics, UCLA, California (16-18 May 2008).
- Laura McPherson and Mary Paster. “Evidence for the Mirror Principle and morphological templates in Luganda affix
ordering.” Paper presented at the 39th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, University of Georgia, Georgia (17-20
April 2008).
- Paster, Mary. “Optional Multiple Plural Marking in Maay.” Paper presented at the 13th International Morphology Meeting,
Vienna, Austria, (3-6 February 2008).
- Paster, Mary. “Phonologically conditioned suppletive allomorphy: Cross-linguistic results and theoretical implications.”
Paper presented at the 15th Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester, Manchester, Lancashire, UK (24-26 May
2007).
- Jade Comfort and Mary Paster. “A grammatical sketch of Maay.” Paper presented at the 38th Annual Conference on African
Linguistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (22-25 March 2007).
Kyle Roberts '05, Chinese Linguist, National Security Agency:
- Kyle Roberts won the Commandant’s Award for Excellence in Language, achievement in Chinese Studies, including an Army
Achievement Medal; Joint Forces Achievement Medal.
Rachel Schaffer' 82, Professor of English, Montana State University:
- Nominated for the 2007 Montana State University, Billings Leadership Recognition Award for Outstanding Advisor of the
Year as advisor of Sigma Tau Delta, the MSU-Billings branch of the international English honor society.
- Recognition from Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honor society, for 20 years of service as sponsor of the Mu
Sigma chapter of MSU Billings, at the annual convention (Spring 2008).
- Faculty Excellence Award from Montana State University, Billings (2008).
- Schaffer, Rachel. (2007). “V. I. Talks Back: Sara Paretsky’s Unlikable Characters as Foes and Foils.” Clues: A Journal
of Detection, special Sara Paretsky issue, 25.2: 31-42.
- Schaffer, R. “At Play in the Fields of the Fforde: Thursday Next and the Metafictional Mysteries of BookWorld.”
Presentation at the Annual Popular Culture Association Conference, San Francisco, CA (19-22 March 2008).
- Schaffer, R. (2008). “Everyday Heroes: Minette Walters’ Women of Valor.” To appear in, M. Hadley and S.
Fogle, eds., Minette Walters and the Meaning of Justice, an anthology on British crime writer Minette Walters.
Jennifer Venditti '00, Communication Disorders and Sciences (Speech Pathology), San Jose State Univ.:
- Congradulations to Jennifer Venditti and husband on the birth of their son, Jamie Christian, born December 24th, 2007!
 Jamie and Julian Big brother Julian is very proud!
Stephen Winters (aka swinters) '03 has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor in the Department of
Linguistics at the University of Calgary beginning Fall 2008.
On the Lighter Side. . . .
In May the faculty, staff, and graduate students of the Department gathered at Julie McGory’s house for an early Summer Cookout. Julie and Bob Levine were grill masters and all of the food was delicious.
 Hannele Nicholson (lecturer), Anouschka Bergmann (grad student), and Jeonghwa Shin (grad student).
Julie McGory (Ugrad Program Coordinator)
A fine Grill Master
In June we had the Undergraduate Party. Undergraduates in Linguistics, Graduate Students and Faculty mingled and ate Adriatico’s Pizza. YUMMY!
Robin MacQueen (ugrad) and Monica Sharma (ugrad)
Other Fun Stuff!
Graduate Students Kathleen Currie Hall and Dahee Kim and Professor Beth Hume
en route to MOT Phonology Workshop in Montreal, March '08
 Peter Culicover Master Chocolate Maker
 More Chocolate Makers! Professor Mike White with Ezri and Caleb 
Elizabeth Smith (Grad Student), Judith Tonhauser (Professor), and Laura Stoia
(Grad Student, CSE) show their Buckeye spirit. Go Bucks!
Please Support the Department!
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- Linguistics Discretionary Fund
A fund for enriching research, teaching and other opportunities for
members of the OSU linguistics community (faculty, students, alumni).
Donations to this fund will be used to support visiting scholars,
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elsewhere, and other such activities.
- Distinguished Linguistics Professorship Fund
A fund to provide compensation and academic support for a faculty
member in the Linguistics Department. The fund will become endowed when it reaches $25,000.00. The endowment fund will be
invested by the University with the income used to provide support for, in this case, a prestigious
faculty position in Linguistics.
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Newsletter Editor:
Joanna Anderson
For questions, comments, or to send newsletter items, please contact Joanna Anderson at joanna@ling.osu.edu.
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