Linguistics Colloquium - Past Talks
| Semester | Date and Location | Topic | Speaker | Department/School | Abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2008 | December 17 (Wed) 4:00 p.m. Taylor 106 |
Hainan Cham Tones, Register and Vowel Quality | Ela Thurgood | English, CSU, Chico | Abstract |
| Spring 2008 | February 15 (Fri) 3:00 p.m. Taylor 210 |
The Uniqueness Marker in Mandan | Sara Trechter | English, CSU, Chico | Abstract |
| Fall 2006 | October 27 (Fri) 3:00 p.m. Taylor 210 |
The Formation of the Chinese Locative "Collostruction" | Chaofen Sun | Center of East Asian Studies, Stanford University | Abstract |
| Spring 2006 | February 24 (Fri) 3:00 p.m. Taylor 210 |
Phonological Cues Predict Gender of Unfamiliar Names | Saundra Wright | English, CSU, Chico | Abstract |
| April 20 (Thurs) 4:00 p.m. Ayres 120 (Anthropology Forum) |
The End of the Sentence in Siouan? | Sara Trechter | English, CSU, Chico | Abstract | |
| Fall 2005 | A Special Guest | Acquisition of English Fricatives by Japanese Native Speakers | Katsura Aoyama | Department of Communication Disorders, Texas Tech University | |
| Spring 2005 | January 28 (Fri) 3:00 p.m. Taylor 210 |
Name Popularity and Feminization Trends | Saundra K. Wright | CSU, Chico | Abstract |
| April 15 (Fri) 3:00 p.m. Taylor 210 |
Discovering Burundi's Cultural History Through Language | Ellen Eggers | CSU, Chico | Abstract | |
| April 29 (Fri) 3:00 p.m. Taylor 210 |
From Proto-Chamic to Tsat: Insights from Zheng 1997 and from Summer 2004 Fieldwork | Graham Thurgood | CSU, Chico | Abstract | |
| Fall 2004 | September 17 (Fri) 3:00 p.m. Taylor 210 |
Pronunciation and Phonology: A Survey of Gendered Typology | Sara Trechter | CSU, Chico | Abstract |
| Spring 2004 | January 30 (Fri) 3:00 p.m. Taylor 206 |
Who is Yo' English Teacher? | Tracy Butts | CSU, Chico | Abstract |
| March 26 (Fri) 3:00 p.m. Taylor 206 |
The Use of Phonation Types in Javanese | Ela Thurgood | CSU, Chico | Abstract | |
| A Special Guest | Anong, The Grammar of an Endangered Language | Sun Hongkai | Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing | ||
| Fall 2003 | October 17 3:00 p.m. PAC 206 |
"First I unbuild it, ok?": Innovations in Un-Prefixation | Saundra K. Wright | CSU, Chico | Abstract |
| November 14 3:00 p.m. PAC 206 |
Language Contact, Structural Shift and Structural Borrowability: Evidence from Oroqen, Qiang and Tsat | Frank Li | CSU, Chico | Abstract | |
| December 12 3:00 p.m. PAC 206 |
The Socialization of Taste | Margaret A. DuFon | CSU, Chico | Abstract | |
| Spring 2003 | January 24 3:00 p.m. PAC 206 |
Thai Speakers of English in Different Language Communities: A Phonological Comparison of Word-initial Stops | Kate Wray | MA Student, CSU, Chico | Abstract |
| February 21 3:00 p.m. PAC 206 |
The Sonority Hierarchy and the Typology of Geminate Consonants | Katsura Aoyama | Department of Communication Disorders, Texas Tech University | Abstract | |
| March 5 (Wed) 4:00 p.m. Ayres 120 |
Ditransive Constructions in the world's languages: alignment types, alignments splits, and inverse patterns | Martin Haspelmath | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany | Abstract | |
| Fall 2002 | September 6 3:00 p.m. PAC 206 |
Language Death and Native American Languages: The Case of Sauk Algonquian | Michael Reinschmidt | Department of Anthropology, CSU, Chico | Abstract |
| October 11 3:00 p.m. PAC 206 |
Phonetic Realizations of Geminate Affricates: A Study of Production | Ela Thurgood | Department of English, CSU, Chico | Abstract | |
| November 15 3:00 p.m. PAC 206 |
The Tall and the Short of It: An Analysis of Children's Ability to Acquire Gradable Adjectives | Saundra Wright | Department of English, CSU, Chico | Abstract | |
| Spring 2002 | January 22 3:00 p.m. Taylor 210 |
Transitivity and Change of State Verbs | Saundra Wright | Department of English, CSU, Chico | Abstract |
| February 8 3:00 p.m. PAC 206 |
The Value of 'Pi' | Sara Trechter | Department of English, CSU, Chico | Abstract | |
| March 8 3:00 p.m. PAC 206 |
A Cross-Linguistic Examination of Causation, Intensive, and Reciprocal | Frank Li | Department of English, CSU, Chico | Abstract | |
| April 5 3:00 p.m. PAC 206 |
The Influence of Chinese on Tsat, an Austronesian Language of Hainan | Graham Thurgood and Frank Li |
Department of English, CSU, Chico | Abstract |
