Linguistics
Colloquium Series
Department of English, California State University, Chico
Fall 2008
December 17 (Wednesday), 4pm (TAYLOR 106)
Hainan Cham tones, register and vowel quality abstract
Ela Thurgood
English, CSU Chico
Spring 2008
February 15 (Friday), 3pm (TAYLOR 210)
The uniqueness marker in Mandan abstract
Sara Trechter
English, CSU Chico
Fall 2006
October 27 (Friday), 3pm (TAYLOR 210)
The formation of the Chinese locative "collostruction" abstract
Chaofen Sun
Center of East Asian Studies, Stanford University
Spring 2006
February 24 (Friday), 3pm (TAYLOR 210)
Phonological Cues Predict Gender of Unfamiliar
Names abstract
Saundra Wright
English, CSU Chico
April 20 (Thursday, not Friday), 4pm (Ayres 120) (Anthropology Forum)
The End of the Sentence in Siouan? abstract
Sara Trechter
English, CSU Chico
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 (Friday), 3pm (TAYLOR 210)
Name Popularity and Feminization
Trends abstract
Saundra K. Wright, CSU-Chico
April 15 (Friday), 3pm (TAYLOR 210)
Discovering Burundi's Cultural History Through
Language abstract
Ellen Eggers, CSU-Chico
April 29 (Friday), 3pm (TAYLOR 210)
From Proto-Chamic to Tsat: Insights from
Zheng 1997 and from Summer 2004 fieldwork abstract
Graham Thurgood, CSU-Chico
Fall 2004
September 17 (Friday), 3pm (TAYLOR 210)
Pronunciation and Phonology: A Survey of
Gendered Typology abstract
Sara Trechter, CSU-Chico
Spring 2004
January 30 (Friday), 3pm (TAYLOR 206)
Who is Yo' English Teacher? abstract
Tracy Butts, CSU-Chico
March 26 (Friday), 3pm (TAYLOR 206)
The use of phonation types in Javanese
abstract
Ela Thurgood,
CSU-Chico
A special guest
Sun Hongkai, Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences, Beijing
Anong, the grammar of an endangered language.
Fall 2003
October 17, 3pm (PAC 206)
"First I unbuild it, ok?": Innovations
in Un- Prefixation abstract
Saundra K. Wright, CSU-Chico
November 14, 3pm (PAC 206)
Language Contact, Structural
Shift and Structural Borrowability:Evidence from Oroqen, Qiang and Tsat
abstract
Frank Li, CSU-Chico
December 12, 3pm (PAC 206)
The Socialization of Taste abstract
Margaret A. DuFon, CSU-Chico
Spring 2003
January 24, 3pm (PAC 206)
Thai speakers of English in different language communities: A phonological comparison of word-initial stops abstract
Kate Wray, MA student, California State University, Chico
February 21, 3pm (PAC 206)
The sonority hierarchy and the typology of geminate consonants abstract
Katsura Aoyama, Department of Communication Disorders, Texas Tech University
March 5 (Wednesday, not Friday!!!), 4pm (Ayres Hall 120)
Ditransitive constructions in the world's languages: alignment types, alignment splits, and inverse patterns abstract
Martin Haspelmath, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Fall 2002
September 6, 3pm (PAC 206)
LANGUAGE DEATH AND NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES: THE CASE OF SAUK ALGONQUIAN abstract
Michael Reinschmidt, Department of Anthropology, CSU-Chico
October 11, 3pm (PAC 206)
Phonetic realizations of geminate affricates: A study of production abstract
Ela Thurgood, Department of English, CSU-Chicoo
November 15, 3pm (PAC 206)
The Tall and the Short of It: An Analysis of Children’s Ability to Acquire Gradable Adjectives abstract
Saundra Wright, Department of English, CSU-Chico
Spring 2002
January 22, 3pm (Taylor 210)
Transitivity and Change of State Verbs abstract
Saundra Wright
Department of English, CSU-Chico
February 8, 3pm (PAC 206)
TheValue of 'Pi' abstract
Sara Trechter
Department of English, CSU-Chico
March 8, 3pm (PAC
206)
A Cross-Linguistic Examination of Causative, Intensive, and Reciprocal abstract
Frank Li
Department of English, CSU-Chico
April 5, 3pm (PAC
206)
The Influence of Chinese on Tsat, an Austronesian Language of Hainan abstract
Graham Thurgood and Frank Li
Department of English, CSU-Chico