Category: Announcements

A full-time RA/Lab Manager position is available at the Neuroscience of Language Lab at NYU (NeLLab) under the direction of Liina Pylkkanen and Alec Marantz. A BA/BS or MA/MS in a cognitive science-related discipline (psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, etc.) or computer science is required. The lab manager will be involved in all stages of the execution and analysis of MEG and EEG experiments on language processing. Previous experience with MEG or some other cognitive neuroscience method is a plus. A background in statistics and some programming ability (e.g., Matlab) are essential. Start date next summer, details negotiable. Interviews will start immediately; we hope to make an offer before March 15. To apply, please email CV and names of references to Prof. Liina Pylkkänen (liina.pylkkanen at nyu.edu).

Natural Language Technology is moving from text retrieval and search applications to tasks that require genuine understanding of natural language as well as the interaction between language understanding and reasoning. Within the linguistic computational world a common perspective has emerged on what is common to these natural language understanding tasks under the heading “textual inferencing”. This workshop on textual inferencing takes place at Stanford University’s Center for the Study of Language and Information on March 9-10, 2012.

There will be a colloquium by Masaya Yoshida (Northwestern University) this Friday, February 3rd, at 4:00 pm, in Humanities 1, room 202. The title of the talk is “The real-time processing of Forward and Backward Sluicing”, and you can find the abstract here.

The Harvard Undergraduate Linguistics Group invites students to their annual Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium, to be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts on April 14th-15th this year. The call for papers and a copy of the necessary registration form are hanging up outside the linguistics department office. The deadline for submitting abstracts is March 13th.

The department will offer two courses this summer: Introduction to Linguistics (to be taught by Bern Samko, and Semantics 1 (to be taught by Adrian Brasoveanu). Both courses will be offered in Summer Session 1, June 25 – July 27. Enrollment for summer courses starts April 16!

The Meertens Institute of Amsterdam has written asking us to spread the word about a new Wiki page on syntactic dialect research. The Wiki is available at www.dialectsyntax.org and is an initiative of the EdiSyn project, a project on dialect syntax funded by the European Science Foundation. It contains information on researchers, institutions, projects, and so on. The project leaders are asking for the help of linguists everywhere to keep the information given on the Wiki correct, up to date and complete. If you want to correct or update the information, you can do this by creating an account and logging in.