DEPARTMENT NEWS FALL 2006
Language Documentation and Conservation
Job Search
The department is searching for an assistant professor
(tenure track) or associate professor to start August 2007.
Click here for the job ad.
New Journal
Ken Rehg is serving as the general
editor of a new electronic journal, Language Documentation and Conservation, which is sponsored by the
National Foreign Language Resource Center and published by
the University of Hawai'i Press.
The inaugural issue of this journal is scheduled to appear in June 2007.
(Byron Bender continues as the editor of
Oceanic Linguistics, also published by
the
University of Hawai'i Press.)
Award
The student-run Language Documentation Center
was awarded first place in the category of Cultural
Sustainability in the first annual UHM Sustainability
Awards.
Dr. Kamil Ud Deen won the Research Relations Fund Award (2006-2007) for $4,750 for his proposal
entitled, “The Acquisition of Principle C by Thai speaking children.”
Conferences and Invited Talks
Fall 2006 conference presentations include the following. (Send news of your presentations, such
as LSA acceptances, to aschafer at hawaii dot edu)
- 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.
UH Presenters at CSDL (San Diego) 2006 |
- 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.
Faculty and Graduate Students
Undergraduate Students
- Dan X reports: UH Linguistics is experiencing a boom in undergraduate interest.
This semester we have nearly twice as many undergrads that have declared Linguistics as their major than
we have ever had.
- At the last two regular Linguistic Society of Hawai`i
meetings we have discussed various strategies for incorporating these undergrads into the organization.
A list of 19 proposed programs and activities has been generated and is currently being reviewed by all
members to determine what we should emphasize in coming semesters. They run the gamut from simple
undergrad get-togethers to mentorship programs to even the establishment of a separate undergraduate
organization apart from the LSH. Hopefully we will
be able to select the most workable items at our next meeting.
Send corrections, additions, and news items for future issues to aschafer
at hawaii dot edu. We’d especially enjoy hearing news from alumni.
|
