28 April 2013

LING 606 presentations

Kristine Yu writes:

You're all cordially invited to a special edition of PRG, featuring our first years on their term projects for 606. 
 
Time: 6:30pm, Tuesday 4/30
 
Location: My place, 36 Orchard St Apt 3, Northampton
    Nearest bus stop: Sheldon Field/Day Ave Park and Ride
     Call me if you get lost: 408 209 2842
 
Sustenance: Hungry Ghost Pizza, growlers, feel free to bring other stuff 
    Students: please send me requests for types of pizzas by Monday
 
Talks: (Preliminary titles below, final titles and abstracts will be posted in South College on Monday)
 
Hsin-Lun Huang: How finite-state grammar is not enough for tone sandhi in Mandarin Chinese
 
Jon Ander Mendia: The intonation of focus in Standard Basque
 
Yohei Oseki: Phases and prosodic spell-out of adjuncts in Japanese
 
Ethan Poole: Finnish consonant gradation in Harmonic Serialism
 
Amanda Rysling: Our confusion stems from discrimination: why comparison might be a better approach 
  
Megan Somerday: Morphological Troubling Theory