Department of Linguistics

December 13, 2006- David Macgregor It Really Wonders Me: On the Relationship Between Intransitives and Causatives in English
Wednesday, December 13 at 1:15 pm in ICC 302

December 13, 2006- Margaret Toye
Interaction in the Production and Fanship of Train 48: An Interactional Sociolinguistic Study
Wednesday, December 13 at 1:15 pm in ICC 302

December 8, 2006- Io Kei Kuong
Clausal Peripheries and Resumptives: A Cross-linguistic Study of Topic-Comment Structures Friday, December 8 at 9:00 am in ICC 563

August 24, 2006- Shiraz Felling
Fading Farsi: Language Policy, Ideology, and Shift in the Iranian American Family
Thursday, August 24 at 12:00 noon in ICC 563

August 22, 2006- Mari Tadada
Synesthetic Metaphor: Perception, Cognition, and Language
Tuesday, August 22 at 2:00 pm in ICC 563

June 30, 2006- Ana-Maria Nuevo
Task complexity and interaction: L2 learning opportunities and development
Friday, June 30 at 11:30 am in ICC 462
(A copy of Ms. Nuevo's dissertation is available in the
Department of Linguistics.)

June 1, 2006- Rajaa M. Aquil
The segmenting/parsing unit in Cairene Arabic spoken language
Thursday, June 1 at 11:00 am in ICC 462

May 18, 2006- Ki-Tae Kim
Discourse of Oriental Medicine
Thursday, May 18, 2006 at 12:30 pm in ICC 450

May 12, 2006- Anfal Al-Gharabally
Algorithmic Approaches to Detection and Correction of Noisy Arabic Data
Friday, May 12 at 1:00 pm in ICC 450

May 9, 2006- Jeffrey K. Parrott
Bridging the Gap: Distributed Morphological Mechanisms of Labovian
Variation in Morphosyntax
Tuesday, May 9, 2006 at 10:00 am in ICC 450

May 1, 2006- Rattima Nitisaroj
Effects of Stress and Speaking Rate on Duration and Tone in Thai
Monday, May 1 at 8:00 am in ICC 450

April 25, 2006- Chi-hsien Kuo
The Information Status and Discourse Function of Conditionals in Mandarin
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 at 10:00 am in ICC 462

April 19, 2006- Virginia Yelei Wake
TheTriad in Prenatal Gentic Counseling Discourse,
Wednesday, April 19 at 12:00 pm in ICC 302 (limited seating available)

April 18, 2006- Anfal Abdulkarim ALGharabally
Algorithmic Approaches to Detection and Correction of Noisy Arabic Data,
April 18, 2006 at 11:30 am in Reiss 261
Postponed

April 3, 2006- Christina Villafaña Dalcher,
Consonant Weakening in Florentine Italian , Monday, April 3
9:00-11:00 am ICC 450

February 21, 2006- Douglas A. Demo, Interactional Competence in Gatekeeping Encounters: A Discourse Analysis of Cross-cultural
Employment Interviews , Tuesday, February 21 at 1:30 pm in ICC 563

November 17, 2005- Mércia Santana Flannery, Stories of Racial Discrimination in Brazil: Language, Stigma and Identity, 10:00 am in ICC 450

December 2, 2005- Bernard Robert Kripkee, Ph.D., Perceived Linkage of English Pitch Accents with Syllables, 11:00 am in ICC 450
October 28, 2005- Boris Fridman-Mintz, Tense and aspect inflections in Mexican Sign Language verbs, 10:00 am in White-Gravenor 108.

October 18, 2005- Jennifer Mittelstaedt, Auxiliary Verb Leveling and Morphological Theory: The Case of Smith Island English. 3:00 pm in ICC 450