People in the department were busy over the past month giving talks. Here is a round-up of some of the news we missed in October (and there's more to come):
At NELS 44 (U Conn, Oct 18-20), Will Oxford (PhD) gave a talk entitled "The Activity Condition as a Microparameter." And Avery Ozburn (PhD) presented a poster with Alexei Kochetov entitled "Non-local laryngeal
alternations in Lezgian: An Agreement by Correspondence analysis."
Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux gave two invited talks in Europe. On October 8 she presented "What RCs tell us about the syntax and semantics of complex structures in children," at the Goethe University Frankfur. On October 18 she presented a seminar
"Continuity, structure and recursion: DP internal PP attachment in English-speaking
children", at the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, in Barcelona. Also, from August 12-16, Ana was a guest lecturer at the 2013 Graduate Institute, Universidade Federal de
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she lectured on the Acquisition of Bilingual Syntax.
Michela Ippolito has just returned from a workshop on conditionals at the University of Konstanz
that brought together linguists and philosophers working on conditionals in North
America and Europe.
http://cms.uni-konstanz.de/what-if/events/workshop-october-2013-p1-and-
Yoonjung Kang gave an invited talk titled "A corpus-based study of
positional variation in Seoul Korean
vowels<http://www.yoonjungkang.com/uploads/1/1/6/2/11625099/jk_presentation2.pdf>"
at Japanese/Korean Linguistics 23 <http://jk.mit.edu>, held at MIT, October
11-13.
Also in attendance was our recent graduate, Kyumin Kim (PhD, 2011) who gave
a talk titled "Idioms in Korean and Japanese: phase-based account".
<http://jk.mit.edu/abstracts/kim.pdf>
The conference was also a chance to catch up with Isaac Gould (MA, 2010)
and Michelle Yuan (MA, 2013) currently studying at MIT, who send their
greetings!
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