News & Events

The Fifteenth Mid-Continental Workshop On Phonology (McWop) was held at Indiana University from Friday 9 October to Sunday 11 October. McWop is an informal gathering of researchers working in all areas of phonology broadly defined. More details about the meeting can be found on the Conference Website.

Indiana University's Learnability Project recently received a $2.34 million, five-year renewal of its National Institutes of Health funding, to continue through 2014. More than 1,000 children from across the state and beyond have received free, one-of-a-kind speech therapy through the program since its initial NIH funding in 1985. This project is headed in part by Linguistics Professor Daniel Dinnsen. More information about the award and the Learnability Project are available through the IU news page.

Other upcomming current about the Linguistics Department can be found in the Weekly Linguistics Calendar.

Past Events

Dissertation Defense

21 September 2009 Psychology 128

Silbert, Noah: "Integration of phonological information in obstruent consonant identification" Chairs: Kenneth DeJong and James Townsend
This defense is for a joint degree in Linguistics and Cognitive Science

28 August 2009
The 2009 IULC Picnic was held at Winslow Woods Shelter starting at 5pm. All are welcome to attend!

7 August 2009 3pm Memorial Hall 317a
Dissertation Defense Mendez Vallejo, Catalina: "Focalizing ser ('to be') in Colombian Spanish" Chairs: Yoshihisa Kitagawa and Miguel Rodríguez-Mondoñedo
This defense is for a joint degree in Linguistics and Spanish

14 May 2009 2pm Psychology 128
Dissertation Defense Kapatsinski, Vsevolod: "The architecture of grammar in artificial grammar learning: Formal biases in the acquisition of morphophonology and the nature of the learning task" Chairs: Kenneth DeJong and David Pisoni

Midwest Computational Linguistics Colloquium - 2009

3-4 May 2009 Ballantine Hall 006
With the sixth annual Midwest Computational Linguistics Colloquium was held at IU. The talk schedule and other specifics can be found on the conference website.

27 March 2009
The 3rd Annual Linguistics Department Graduate Student Conference was held in Ballantine Hall (BH) - Room 204

30 January 2009 9:30 AM, Memorial Hall 317A.
Dissertation defense Grimes, Stephen: "Quantitative Studies in Hungarian Phonotactics and Syllable Structure" Chair: Stuart Davis (davis@indiana.edu)

30 January 2009
Ph.D.s were awarded to Mikael Thompson and Dongmyung Lee.

22 December 2008 9:00 AM, Memorial Hall 317A.
Lee, Dongmyung: "Loanword Tonology of South Kyungsang Korean" Chair: Stuart Davis (davis@indiana.edu)

15 December 2008 2:00 PM, Memorial Hall 317A.
Thompson, Mikael: "A Study of the Analogical Extension of the Mongolian Hidden-n Declension in Colloquial Standard Khalkha" Chair: Gyorgy Kara (gkara@indiana.edu)

8 December 2008 10:00 AM, Memorial Hall 317A.
Jose, Brian: "Testing the Apparent-Time Construct in a Young Speech Community: Steel City Speech in and around Gary, Indiana on its 100th Birthday" Chair: Julie Auger (jauger@indiana.edu)

August 29, 2008 starting at 5:00 PM, Winslow Woods Shelter
Annual Indiana Uniersity Linguistics Club (IULC) Picnic
The Winslow Woods Shelter is on 2120 South Highland Avenue across from the YMCA. It can be reached by Bloomington Transit bus route 4(south)

August 29, 2008 1:00-3:00 PM, New Graduate Student Orientation Meeting
The orientation meeting was held in Ballantine Hall 004.

8 August 2008 11:00 AM, Speech and Hearing C108.
Ikuta, Toshikazu: "fMRI study of Grammar, Parkinson's Disease and Dopaminergic Medication" Co-chairs: Steven Franks (franks@indiana.edu) and Laura Murray (lmurray@indiana.edu)

1 August 2008, 10:00 AM, Memorial Hall 401.
Park, Hanyong: "Phonological information and linguistic experience in foreign accent detection" Chair: Kenneth de Jong (kdejong@indiana.edu)

10 July 2008, 9:00 AM, Memorial Hall 401.
Oglesbee, Eric: "Multidimensional Stop Categorization in English, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, and Canadian French" Chair: Kenneth de Jong (kdejong@indiana.edu)

8 July 2008, 10:00 AM, Memorial Hall 401.
Farris-Trimble, Ashley: "Cumulative faithfulness effects in phonology" Chair: Daniel Dinnsen (855-7948)

14 June 2008, 10:00 AM, Memorial Hall 401.
Rojas, David: "Features and Methods for Automatic Dialect Identification: Co-Chairs: Kenneth de Jong (kdejong@indiana.edu) and John Paolillo (paolillo@indiana.edu)

22 June 2008, 3:00 PM, Memorial Hall 317.
Wilkerson, Gladys (Rose): "Talkin' Country: African-American English in the Mississippi Delta" Chair: Stuart Davis (davis@indiana.edu)

14 April 2008, 3:00 PM, Memorial Hall 317.
Purvis, Tristan: "A Linguistic and Discursive Analysis of Register Variation in Dagbani" Chair: Samuel Obeng (sobeng@indiana.edu)

The 2nd Linguistics Department Conference will take place on Friday, March 21, 2008. Students will present their work in linguistics. Work on any area of linguistics is welcome, and students from any department can submit abstracts.

Sociolinguisticsfest runs from June 9-12, 2008. More information can be found at the Sociolinguisticsfest web site.

2007

Annual IULC Picnic, Friday, August 25th at 5 PM in Bryan Park, Woodlawn Shelter

Workshop: Prosody, Syntax and Information Structure III, September 14-16, 2007

MCWOP 13, October 26-28 at the Ohio State University. Abstract submission deadline is Friday, September 14, 2007

Undergrad Awards Ceremony, Friday, April 27th, 2007 in the Seminar Room (Memorial Hall 317) from 11:15 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

First Annual Linguistics Department Student Conference

Slavic Linguistics Society Meeting Sept. 8–10 to be held at IU
(see http://www.unc.edu/~lajanda/sls2006.html for the program).

Distinguished Alumni Award and Lecture (Fred Eckman Ph.D. 1972)
September 14-15

Distinguished Alumni Award Presentation – Thursday, September 14, 4 PM at the University Club in the Indiana Memorial Union.
Contrast in Second Language Acquisition – Friday, September 15, 3:30 PM in Ballantine Hall 347

Spring 2007 Linguistics Colloquium

Phonology Fest 2006

New B.A. Minor in African Languages

Daniel Dinnsen honored as a Chancellor's Professor