2006
- Word of a conference presentation by Ph.D. student Manami Sato and faculty members Amy Schafer and Ben Bergen: 'Source domain priming in metaphorical sentence production,' presented at The 8th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse & Language, the Department of Cognitive Science, University of California at San Diego.
- Boston University Conference on Child Language Development This year’s BUCCLD had presentations from Kamil Ud Deen, Tatiana Ilic, Hye-Young Kwak, Jun Nomura, and Kyung Sook Shin, plus additional students from the Department of Second Language Studies. We’re still waiting for pictures.
- Conceptual Structure, Discourse & Language Department members gave a total of 8 presentations, authored or co-authored by: Ben Bergen, Wen-Wei Han, Sara Olson, Jawee Perla, Carl Polley, Manami Sato, Amy Schafer, Meylysa Tseng, and Kathryn Wheeler.
- Acoustical Society of America UH Lingustics will be represented by at least 9 presentations, from: Victoria Anderson, Katsura Aoyama (PhD, 2000), Sang Yee Cheon (PhD, 2005), Yumiko Enyo, Hunter Hatfield, Mie Hiramoto (PhD, 2006), Hyekyung Hwang, Tomoko Kozasa (PhD, 2005), Yohei Sakata (MA, 2006), Amy Schafer, and Diana Stojanovic. The ASA meeting will be held at the Sheraton Waikiki from November 28 to December 2. Check here for registration, the schedule and on-line abstracts (or visit the Reading Room for an advance look at the speech communication area abstracts). There will be over 300 speech talks, including special sessions on prosody and on second language learning. For those of you who just can’t get enough phonetics, check the Tuesday Seminar schedule for information on invited talks from visiting phoneticians.
- Korea University Press has just published the Korean translation of William O’Grady’s book, HowChildren Learn Language (first published in 2005 by Cambridge UniversityPress). The translator was Professor Kyung-ja Park (Ph.D., 1974) of Korea University.
 UH Presenters at CSDL (San Diego) 2006 |
October 2006
- William O’Grady just returned from a week at Waseda University in Tokyo, where he was invited to tape a series of six lectures on language acquisition. The lectures will be available to scholars and students in a large consortium of universities throughout east and southeast Asia.
- Dr. Young-Key Kim-Renaud (Ph.D., 1974 and Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at George Washington University) was inducted into the Republic of Korea Order of Cultural Merit, Jade Class, for her life-time contribution to the advancement of the Korean language and culture. The honor was conferred on her by President Roh Moo-hyun on October 9, 2006--on the 560th anniversary of King Sejong's promulgation of the Korean writing system. Dr. Kim-Renaud's mother was a previous recipient of this prestigious award.
- Ben Bergen was an invited instructor of a week-long course on 'Empirical methods for simulation semantics' at the workshop on Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics, in Murcia, Spain.
- Ben Bergen presented an invited plenary talk ('Mental Simulation and Embodiment') at the International Conference of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association, in Murcia, Spain.
July 2006
- William O’Grady gave an invited plenary talk at the 11th meeting of the Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, held at Kangwon National University in Korea. William’s talk, entitled ‘The problem of verbal inflection in second language acquisition,’ is available at his website.
June 2006
- William O’Grady has just returned from the Guadalajara, Mexico, where he presented a paper and presided over the 15th biennial meeting of the International Circle of Korean Linguistics, held at the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara. William was elected president of ICKL last year.
May 2006
- News of a successful conference presentation by Ph.D. student Manami Sato and faculty members Amy Schafer and Ben Bergen: 'Effects of picture perception on the expression of abstract concepts in sentence production,' presented at The 19th annual CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing 2006, the CUNY Graduate School & University Center.
April 2006
- William O’Grady gave an invited plenary talk (‘Quantifier interpretation in second language acquisition’) at the Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition(GASLA) conference in Banff, Canada this month. The conference brought together the world’s leading scholars doing generative work on second language acquisition. William’s paper, which will be published in the proceedings, is also available at his website.
January - July 2006
- Kamil Ud Deen published two research papers in peer-reviewed journals. The first, entitled 'Object agreement and specificity in early Swahili' appears in the prestigious Journal of Child Language, and the second, co-authored with Nina Hyams (UCLA), entitled 'The Morphosyntax of mood in early grammar, with special reference to Swahili', appears in the journal First Language.
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