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Linguistics Colloquium Series
The SFU Linguistics Colloquium Series is a forum for all those interested in language and linguistics.
Talks take place on the SFU Burnaby campus Thursdays at 11:30 (exceptions noted below). All are welcome.
Contact colloquium organizer Panayiotis Pappas (panayiotis_pappas@sfu.ca) to be added to the colloquium email list.
Other talks are scheduled as part of the Ling Lunch Series, Tuesdays at 12:30. Ling Lunch talks are listed here (abbreviated as LL), for ease of reference, as are thesis defenses (abbreviated as TD). Please also refer to the Departmental calendar for a complete listing of events.
Schedule Spring 2010
| March 11 |
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Cliff Burgess (Senior Lecturer, SFU)
Inaugural lecture |
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Halpern 126 |
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| March 25 |
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Jeff Mielke (Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa)
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EDB 7500B |
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April 1
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Rada Trnavac (SFU, Cognitive Science) |
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Halpern 114 |
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| April 8 |
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Susannah Kirby, UBC, Linguistics |
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EDB 8651 |
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Schedule Fall 2009
Sep 23
12:30 pm |
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Dieter Stein (University of Dusseldorf)
Title: The linguistics of literalness (Ling Lunch) |
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Halpern 114 |
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Oct 20
12:30 pm |
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William Salmon (University of British Columbia)
Title: Epistemic must, evidential signals, and dimensions of meaning (Ling Lunch) |
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Halpern 114 |
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| Nov 5 |
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Molly Babel (Linguistics, UBC)
Title: Selectivity in spontaneous phonetic imitation (Abstract) |
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EDB 8651 |
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Nov 25
10 am |
TD |
Emmanuela Mileva
Title: Linguistic effects on the contact between Greek and Bulgarian
languages for recent Bulgarian immigrants to Northern Greece (M.A. Thesis Defense) |
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Halpern 114 |
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| Nov 26 |
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Fei Xia (Linguistics, University of Washington)
Title: Applying NLP Technologies to the Collection and Analysis
of Language Data to Aid Linguistic Research (Abstract) |
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Library 7200 |
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Nov 26
2 pm |
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David Potter
Title: A multiple dominance analysis of sharing coordination
constructions using tree adjoining grammar (M.A. Thesis Defense) |
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Library 2020 |
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| Dec 3 |
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Ming Xiang (Linguistics, University of Victoria)
Title: Processing LF: an experimental investigation of Chinese wh-in-situ questions (Abstract) |
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WMC 2220 |
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Dec 9
10 am |
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Loreley Wiesemann
Title: The function of Spanish and English relative clauses in discourse and their segmentation in Centering Theory (Ph.D. Thesis Defense) |
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Library 2020 |
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Dec 9
Wed, 2:30 pm |
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Jeanette Gundel (Linguistics, University of Minnesota)
Title: Child Language, theory of mind, and the role of procedural markers in
identifying referents of nominal expressions (Abstract)
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Halpern 114 |
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Dec. 11
Fri, 10-12 |
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Ling 851 Poster Session
- The effects of proficiency levels in the use of definite articles by ESL learners (Parissa Erfani and Rima Ibata);
- A corpus-based, Centering Theory approach to clitic doubling in Spanish telephone conversations (Ashleigh Gonzales and Claudia Hsu);
- Investigation of Contextual Similarity of the Occurrence of Cognates (Debopam Das and Dennis Sharkey)
- The Effects of Closed-captioned Movies on the Agreement Structures: Evidences of Incidental Learning (Reem Alsadoon and Mehran Norafkan).
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Halpern 114 |
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Directions to SFU from Washington.
Pages from previous years' colloquia available here:
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