Fall 2008 Linguistics Talks and other events

• Thu, Sep 4: Elizabeth Zsiga, Georgetown University
  Cross-linguistic Patterns in Speech Planning: Obstruent Nasalization in Korean and Korean-accented English
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• Thu, Sep 18: Jonathan Bobaljik, University of Connecticut *
  Getting 'Better': On Comparative Suppletion and Related Topics
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• Thu, Sep 25: Barbara Hall Partee, University of Massachusetts, Amherst *
  Russian Genitives, Non-Referentiality, and the Property-Type Hypothesis
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• Thu, Oct 2: Lyle Campbell, University of Utah *
  How Many Language Families are there in the World? How Many Language Isolates?
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• Thu, Oct 23: William Schuler, University of Minnesota
  A Simple Computational Model of Interactive Language Processing Abstract of the talk
  
  
• Thu, Oct 30: Seth Cable, University of Massachusetts, Amherst *
  Towards the Elimination of Pied-Piping: Evidence from Tlingit
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• Thu, Nov 13: Asaf Bachrach, MIT
  fMRI investigation of incremental language processing in a naturalistic context
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• Thu, Dec 4: Edward Stabler, UCLA
  Greedy Incremental Parsing
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