Spring 2009

Colloquium
Monday, April 6

Robert Port (Indiana University)
"Rich linguistic memory shows language must be a social object, not psychological"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Colloquium
Monday, April 13

Armin Mester (U.C. Santa Cruz)
"Gemination and the prosody of loanwords in Japanese"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

5th UCSD Linguistics Department Heritage Language Program Film Festival
Saturday, April 18, 2009

The Other (L'Autre; El Akhar)
Directed by Youssef Chahine (Egypt, 1999)
In Arabic and English with English subtitles
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Colloquium
Monday, April 20

Tom Bever (University of Arizona)
"Extrinsic and Intrinsic Language Universals"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Thursday, April 23
"The Linguists"
Film screening followed by discussion with David Harrison, one of the linguists featured on the film.

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Great Hall-International House, 5:00 P.M. (Free)

5th UCSD Linguistics Department Heritage Language Program Film Festival
Saturday, April 25, 2009

Ama, Ina, Anak (Father, Mother, Child)
Directed by José Javier Reyes (Philippines, 1996)
In Filipino with English subtitles
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Colloquium
Monday, May 4

Jon Sprouse (UC Irvine)
"Looking for evidence in the islands debate: working memory capacity and acceptability judgments"
Philip Hofmeister (UCSD)
"A processing-based view of syntactic island phenomena"

5th UCSD Linguistics Department Heritage Language Program Film Festival
Saturday, May 9, 2009

The White Silk Dress (Áo lụa hà đông)
Directed by Lựu Huỳnh (Vietnam, 2006)
In Vietnamese with English subtitles
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

5th UCSD Linguistics Department Heritage Language Program Film Festival
Saturday, May 16, 2009

Tajja (The War of Flower)
Directed by Dong-hun Choi (S. Korea, 2006)
In Korean with English subtitles
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Colloquium
Monday, May 18

David Barner (UCSD Psychology)
"Meaning and verification in language acquisition"
4:00 pm, AP&M 4301

5th UCSD Linguistics Department Heritage Language Program Film Festival
Saturday, May 30, 2009

Maxx
Directed by Saman Moghadam (Iran, 2005)
In Farsi with English subtitles
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Winter 2009

Colloquium
Monday, February 9

Susan Goldin-Meadow (University of Chicago)
"Gesture's Role in Creating and Learning Language"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Fall 2008

Colloquium
Monday, October 6

Mary Paster (Pomona)
"Phonologically Conditioned Affix Order as a Post-Morphological Phenomenon"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

CRL Talk
Tuesday, October 7

Karen Emmorey (SDSU)
"Speaking vs. Signing: How biology affects the neurocognitive processes for language production"
4:00 pm, CSB 280

Colloquium
Monday, October 13

Megha Sundara (UCLA)
"How does phonetic perception develop in monolingual and bilingual first language acquisition?"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

CRL Talk
Tuesday, October 14

Keith Rayner (UCSD Psych)
"The influence of plausibility on eye movements during reading"
4:00 pm, CSB 280

Colloquium
Monday, October 20

Donka Farkas (UCSC)
"Assertions, Polar questions and Polarity particles"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

CRL Talk
Tuesday, October 21

Alex Del Giudice (UCSD Ling)
"Do phonological awareness and coding predict reading skill in deaf readers? A Meta-Analysis"
4:00 pm, CSB 280

CRL Talk
Tuesday, October 28

Amy Lieberman (UCSD)
"Child-Driven Language Input: Insights from Young Signing Children"
4:00 pm, CSB 280

Colloquium
Monday, November 3

Adam Albright (MIT)
"The role of grammar in producing and constraining gradient interactions"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

CRL Talk
Tuesday, November 4

Thomas Farmer
"Gradiency in Syntactic Garden-Paths Revealed by Continuous Motor Output"
4:00 pm, CSB 280

Colloquium
Friday, November 14

Gennaro Chierchia (Harvard)
"Polarity Sensitivity and Semantic Variation "
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Heritage Language Program Film Festival
Monday-Friday, November 17-21

In celebration of International Education Week
A film for each day of the week
5:30 pm, AP&M 4301

Colloquium
Monday, November 24

Andrew Carnie (U. of Arizona)
"Constituency as feature checking: dependency and morphophonological constraints on syntax"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

CRL Talk
Tuesday, November 25

Katie Alcock (University of Lancaster, Psychology)
"Oral and Gestural Motor Abilities and Early Language - Talking with the Mouth"
4:00 pm, CSB 280

CRL Talk
Tuesday, December 2

Michael Spivey (Cornell, Psychology)
"Dynamics and Embodiment in Language Comprehension"
4:00 pm, CSB 280

Spring 2008

Colloquium
Monday, April 7

Lisa Pearl (UC Irvine)
"Constrained Probabilistic Learning for Complex Linguistic Systems"
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

Colloquium
Monday, April 14

Julia Evans (SDSU)
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

HLP Film Series
Saturday, April 19

Journey from the Fall
In Vietnamese and English with English subtitles
11:00 am, AP&M 4301

Colloquium
Friday, April 25

Sam Cumming (UCLA)
"Discourse Content" (Joint invitation with Philosophy Dept.)
4:00 pm, H&SS 7077

HLP Film Series
Saturday, April 26

Himala (Miracle)
In Filipino with English subtitles
10:00 am, AP&M 4301

Colloquium
Monday, April 28

Kie Zuraw (UCLA)
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

HLP Film Series
Saturday, May 3

Le Destin (Destiny)
In Arabic with English subtitles
11:00 am, AP&M 4301

HLP Film Series
Saturday, May 17

Marmoulak
In Farsi with English subtitles
11:00 am, AP&M 4301

Colloquium
Monday, May 19

Arto Antilla (Stanford U.)
2:00 pm, AP&M 4301

HLP Film Series
Saturday, May 31

Secret Sunshine
In Korean with English subtitles
11:00 am, AP&M 4301

With our many colloquia, talks, lab meetings, reading groups, and conferences, something's always going on in our department.