WHAT'S HAPPENING AT SANTA CRUZ
A weekly digest of linguistics news and events from the University of California, Santa Cruz
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.
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.
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.
The 22nd Semantics and Linguistics Theory (SALT) conference will be held at the University of Chicago, May 18-20, 2012. The abstract submission deadline is January 3, 2012.
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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PHLING, a graduate student research group in philosophy and linguistics at the University of Maryland, College Park, is hosting its first interdisciplinary research symposium, PHLINC (Philosophy & Linguistics Colloquium) on events. PHLINC hopes to bring together young researchers working on events in philosophy, linguistics and psychology. They aim to relate the discussion of events in these fields, bringing into conversation the work in ontology, logic, semantics, and perception. They will also have two invited speakers: Achille Varzi, of Columbia University, and Paul Pietroski, of the University of Maryland.
Submissions are open to graduate student researchers only, and abstracts are due January 7th, 2012. To learn more, visit the conference website.