FRIDAY COLLOQUIUM

About the Friday Colloquium

The UNC Linguistics Friday Colloquium series (not to be confused with the annual Spring Colloquium) serves three purposes:

a place for UNC graduate students and faculty to present current work for feedback and discussion in a friendly, supportive atmosphere
an opportunity for our department to host talks by speakers from other UNC departments or elsewhere
a venue for professional-development workshops for linguistics graduate students

All events are 3-4(:15)pm in Smith Bldg 107 unless otherwise indicated.

Jan 14	Professional development workshop (Alice Drozdiak and Crandall Hicks) Making and uploading a web site
Feb 4	Dean Pettit, Philosophy "Varieties of natural language quantification"
Feb 11	Alice Drozdiak "Hyperarticulation as a Tool for Distinguishing Pitch Accent Effects from Word-Final Lengthening"
Feb 25	Professional development workshop (University Career Services) Non-academic careers for linguistics grad students Location: The UCS Seminar Room, Hanes Hall
Mar 18	Kerstin Schwabe, Center for General Linguistics, ZAS, Berlin, and Robert Fittler, Mathematical Institute of the Freie Universität Berlin (Emeritus) "Purely logical conditions ruling German proposition embeddings"
Sat Mar 26	2 0 1 1 S p r i n g C o l l o q u i u m !
Apr 1	Robin Dodsworth, NCSU "A 3-generation view of the effects of dialect contact on the Raleigh front vowel system"
Apr 8	Professional development workshop Teaching workshop for LING 101 and beyond
Apr 15	Susannah Kirby, UBC (UNC alum!) "Putting Raising above Control: A prototype analysis of child and adult phenomena"

If anyone is interested in giving a Friday Colloquium talk in Spring 2011 or Fall 2011, please contact the 2010-11 organizer, Jen Smith.

Aug 27	Linguistics grad student orientation and department reception
Sept 24	David Mora-Marín "Documenting the Mije(-Sokean) language from San Juan Guichicovi (Oaxaca, Mexico): First impressions and future prospects"
Oct 15	Mary Kohn "The more things change, the more (some) things stay the same: A longitudinal analysis of the vowel spaces in childhood and adolescent African American English"
Oct 29	Mamarame Seck, Department of African and Afro-American Studies "Information structure or focus in Wolof narratives"
Nov 12	Professional development workshop Choosing conferences and submitting abstracts