Category: Announcements

Undergraduates: Three-month Internships with LINGUIST List

The LINGUIST List has announced the availability of a limited number of internship positions for the summer of 2012 at the LINGUIST offices in Ypsilanti/Ann Arbor, Michigan. Internships are available for a three-month period between May and August 2012 and pay a modest wage.

Interns will have the opportunity to participate in the daily operations of the LINGUIST List and its parent organization, the Institute for Language Information and Technology (ILIT) at Eastern Michigan University. ILIT serves the discipline of linguistics by providing digital tools and services that sustain the scientific analysis of language and by disseminating high-quality language data and linguistic information. In addition to the LINGUIST List website and mailing list, ILIT manages a number of grant-funded projects that develop the cyberinfrastructure of linguistics. To learn more, click here!

UCSC at the LSA

The preliminary program of the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, to be held January 5-8, 2012, in Portland, Oregon, has now been posted. WHASC’s first reading of it reveals an unusually hefty UCSC presence. Among those delivering papers are grad students Ryan Bennett, Nick Deschenes, and Matt Tucker, and faculty members Amy Rose Deal, Wendell Kimper, and Geoffrey Pullum (emeritus). Bill Ladusaw will be the discussant on a panel about the undergraduate major in Linguistics. Grad student Robert Henderson will present a joint poster with alum Scott AnderBois (Ph.D. 2011, now University of Connecticut). Many other alums will be presenting papers, including Ph.D. alums Pete Alrenga (Boston University), Vera Gribanova (Stanford), Chris Kennedy (Chicago), Ruth Kramer (Georgetown), Vera Lee-Schoenfeld (University of Georgia), Anya Lunden (University of Georgia), Jason Merchant (Chicago), and Rachel Walker (USC), as well as B.A. alums Joseph Sabbagh (University of Texas, Arlington) and Mark Sicoli (University of Alaska, Fairbanks). On Friday evening, Jorge Hankamer will be inducted as a member of the 2012 class of LSA Fellows. On Saturday evening, the Presidential address will be delivered by Sandy Chung, Manuel F. Borja, and Matt Wagers.

BLS Announcement

The 38th annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society will be held at the University of California, Berkeley on February 11-12, 2012. The meeting will comprise a Thematic Session on language contact and a General Session. Abstracts are due November 14. To learn more, click here.

Undergraduates: Donald A. Strauss Foundation Scholarship

The Donald A. Strauss Foundation Scholarship provides a $10,000 scholarship to juniors who will pursue a self-initiated public service project during their senior year. Selectors look for candidates who are passionate about their project and who have a demonstrated interest in public service, outstanding leadership potential, effective communication skills, and who “wish to make a difference” in local, regional, or national communities. Eligible students must have one full year remaining until graduation and meet other criteria. To learn more, click here.

GLOW Workshop on “Timing of Grammar”

Harald Clahsen and Claudia Felser are organizing a workshop to precede this year’s Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) conference. The theme is “The timing of grammar: experimental and theoretical considerations” and the focus is anaphoric dependencies. The submission deadline is November 15th. To learn more, click here.

Paid Work for Gulf Arabic-speaking Linguist

Ember Van Allen (BA 2004, MA 2006), who works for Sensory, Inc., sends the following announcement:

I’m a linguist working for Sensory, Inc., in Portland, Oregon, and I’m currently modeling Arabic phonology for a speech recognition product. I’m looking for a native speaker of Gulf Arabic (preferably from Saudi Arabia) with a background in linguistics who can work approximately 20 hours (perhaps more) over the next few weeks to two months. The work would primarily be answering my questions about the language, mostly regarding phonology and text normalization, and some amount of review or light phonetic transcription. The speaker would be employed as a paid, temporary contract consultant, with flexible hours. There would be no need to travel, as the consultation would happen predominately by email and occasionally by phone.

To learn more about this opportunity, see the posting outside the department office.

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