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daniel büring at mcgill

Daniel Büring will be visiting McGill Linguistics this weekend for etap and stay on for a couple of days afterwards, funded by the McGill Syntactic Interfaces Research Group. Here’s the ABC of his visit: A. Invited Talk at ETAP2: Saturday, September 24 9:00-9:30am New Residence, Ballroom B (directions) Daniel Büring: Correspondence at the Syntax–Phonology Interface [...]
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etap

The second conference on Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody is taking place this weekend at McGill University. Check out the conference program. If you’d like to participate, please register here.
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etap deadline extended

The etap deadline was extended until June 1st. See the conference website for the call for papers.
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workshop on rhythm in speech and music

The CRLMB and CRMMT are hosting a workshop on rhythm in speech and music at mcgill this week. I’m copying the announcement: CIRMMT Distinguished Lecture by Dr. Ani Patel (co-sponsored by CRLMB) Dr. Ani Patel (The Neurosciences Institute) will give a lecture entitled “Relations between linguistic and nonlinguistic sound systems: Empirical studies,” on April 21st [...]
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two talks at mcgill on friday

Two talks on Friday, April 8 2011 at McGill within a block’s distance: Cognitive Brownbag Seminar: Elena Koulaguina & Rushen Shi (Uqam): Abstract rules, exceptions and morphological markings in early language acquisition Time: 11:30-12:30pm Location: S3/4 Stewart Bio Special Edition of the GRIPP reading group: Khalil Iskarous (Fullbright Fellow at CRLMB/Haskins): The Geometry of Statistics [...]
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mot program

The program for this year’s MOT in honor of Glyne Pigott is now posted. Registration is now open. Note that if you want to attend the banquet, you’ll have to register by April 18. You’ll find information about accommodation here.
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richard aslin at mcgill

Richard Aslin (University of Rochester, USA) is giving a Hebb Colloquium tomorrow. Time: 3.30pm. Location: Room S1/3 in the Stewart Psychology Building at McGill. The Dynamics of Information Processing in Infants: Eye-tracking and Neuroimaging. Abstract: Infants are capable of rapidly learning the distributional properties of information in a wide variety of domains. This mechanism of [...]
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Sara Mackenzie Talk

Sara Mackenzie is given a talk tomorrow in our Colloquium Series: Sara Mackenzie (McGill University) Time: 3.30pm Place: Ferrier Building, room 456 Title: Ordering Restrictions in Aymara: the role of contrast and markedness
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Aditi Lahiri and Henning Reetz at McGill

On March 18, Aditi Lahiri and Henning Reetz will be giving talks at McGill. 1.30pm CLRMB Distinguished Lecture Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Research Centre, Montreal 1160, av. des Pins Ouest, Room 501 Aditi Lahiri (Oxford University): WORDS: asymmetries in representation, processing and change Abstract: Language systems abound in asymmetries — in inventories, representations and [...]
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phonology in the 21 century: in honor of glyne piggott

When: May 7-9 2011 Where: McGill University ‘Phonology in the 21st Century: In Honour of Glyne Piggott’ is a conference to honour Glyne Piggott, who retired in May 2010 from McGill University. For over forty years, Prof. Piggott has been a supporter of the highest quality research in phonology. He is well recognized for maintaining [...]
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