Linguistics Colloquia

Student Colloquium Info

Spring 2009 Linguistics Program Colloquium
Wed, June 3, 2009, 4:00 PM in HU 106 & HU 110

Featuring Presenters and Topics:

Erin Lafferty (Dr. Shannon Dubenion-Smith): Stoics Study of Phonetics
Emilia Snow (Dr. Jordan Brewer): Vowel Harmony in Hungarian
Marten van Schijndel (Dr. Anne Lobeck): Headedness and Determiners in Bahasa Indonesia
Nicholas Hartmann (Dr. Anne Lobeck): Pro-Drop in Japanese
Molly Perera (Dr. Shaw Gynan): Language Contact between Castilian Spanish and Indigenous Languages of America
Darcy Harshaw (Dr. Shaw Gynan): The Role of American Sign Language Classifiers and Non-Manual Signs as Morphological Markers
Justine Malland (Dr. Shannon Dubenion-Smith): The Birth of Generative Grammar and Universal Grammar: A response to Structuralist and Behaviorist approaches
Arielle Blume (Dr. Anne Lobeck): The Modern Printing Press Phenomenon: The effect of the Internet on the English language
Ashley Wilson (Dr. Jordan Brewer): Investigating phonological alternations in Basque
Whitney Thompson (Dr. Anne Lobeck): Questioning Arabic Questions

Spring 2009 Scholars' Week Presentations
Wed, May 18, 2009, 2:00 PM in HU 109

Featuring Presenters and Topics:

Kelsey Hinde, Natale Rochlin, and Tony Stone (Dr. Kendra Douglas):
Contributing Scholarly Information in the Global Community:
The case of Sri Lankan Portuguese Creole
Nicholas Hartmann (Dr. Anne Lobeck):
Pro-Drop in Japanese:
Myth or mere misdiagnosis

Winter 2009 Linguistics Program Colloquium
Mon, Mar 9, 2009, 2:00 PM in Haggard 153

Featuring Presenters and Topics:

Malorie Bolin & Ryan Wolk (Dr. Kendra Douglas): English Pronunciation Difficulties in Native German Speakers
Cory Alf (Dr. Anne Lobeck): A Study of the Syntax of German
Roderic Powell (Dr. Kristin Denham): X-Bar Theory and Dyirbal Syntax
Kaylin Anderson (Dr. Shaw Gynan): Infixing in the English Language
Elizabeth Rough (Dr. Linda Istanbulli): A Case Study on Code-Switching
Emily Johnson (Dr. Kristin Denham): The Syntax of Verb Raising in Hebrew
Molly Armstrong (Dr. Shaw Gynan): Vowel Tensing in the English High, Open, Front Vowel

Fall 2008 Linguistics Program Colloquium
Wed, Dec 3, 2008, 5:00 PM in Communications 105

Featuring Presenters and Topics:

Naomi Diaz: English Pronunciation and the Mandarin Chinese Speaker
Sean Bennett: Vowel variation in the Mercian dialect of Old English
Elizabeth Rough: The language evolution of a Greek-, Ethiopian-, Sudanese-, German-, English-speaking man
Tin To & Ian Moore: The syntax of Japanese case marking
Jamie Davis-Baker: TBA

Spring 2008 Linguistics Program Colloquium
Wed, Jun 4, 2008, 2:00 PM

Featuring Presenters and Topics:
Group 1 in Communications 105:

Brian M. Green (Dr. Shaw Gynan): Uzbek Morphology
Morgan Simon (Dr. Shaw Gynan): The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Revisited
Thomas Yount (Dr. Shaw Gynan): Culture as a System of Mediation and Communication
Kaylee Lewis & Alyssa Thornley (Drs. Fallou Ngom & Shaw Gynan): Introduction to Forensic Linguistics and its Practical Applications
Alexander Olsen (Dr. Kendra Douglas): Second Language Acquisition: German Influence on English

Group 2 in SMATE (Science Lecture) 150:

Erica Myhre (Prof. Jordan Brewer): A Phonological Analysis of Lambda
Rachel Kehrli (Dr. Kristin Denham): The "Wanna" Contraction
Cassandra Hogl (Dr. Kristin Denham): Linguistics in the Schools
Kevin Wiener (Dr. Shaw Gynan): Japanese Morphology of Verbs
Samantha Wray (Dr. Kristin Denham): Cross-Dialectal Analysis of Arabic Dualism
Lena Bradford (Prof. Dwan Shipley): Language Acquisition in Feral Children

Winter 2008 Linguistics Program Colloquium
Thu, Mar 13, 2008, 2:00 PM in SMATE (Science Lecture) 140

Featuring Presenters and Topics:

Krysty Welch (Dr. Rudi Weiss): Length of the German Trill [R] Compared to the English [ɹ]
David Johnson (Dr. Edward Vajda): R U 1337? Online Gaming and the Evolution of Text
Bryan Tinsley (Dr. Shaw N. Gynan): An Analysis of Synthetic Vowel Prosody

Fall 2007 Linguistics Program Colloquium
Tue, Dec 4, 2007, 2:00 PM in SMATE (Science Lecture) 110

Featuring Presenters and Topics:

Erin Hunter, Rachel Bell, Andrea Schwartz, & Bryn Frazier (Dr. Kendra Douglas): Substratum interface and code switching of hispanohablantes en los EEUU
Derek Tulluck, Rui Tada, & Siu Linh Ung (Dr. Kendra Douglas): Pronunciation Difficulties of Korean and Japanese English Language Learners

Spring 2007 Linguistics Program Colloquium
Tue, Jun 5, 2007, 4:00 PM in Communications Facility (CF) 25

Featuring Presenters and Topics:

Akane Takayanagi & Joshua Daniels (Dr. Kendra Douglas): Language Contact: Korean & English
Andrew Blick (Dr. Kendra Douglas): Portuguese Clitics
Derik Bron (Prof. Dwan Shipley): English at the Wok
Douglas Zwick (Dr. Rudi Weiss): Acoustic Differences between Voiced and Voiceless Consonants in Whispered English
Heather Swihart (Dr. Anne Lobeck): Teaching Grammar in Schools
Kyla Smith (Dr. Rudi Weiss): Findings on Individuals' Harmonic Patters for the [I] vowel
Mark Winterstein (Dr. Kendra Douglas): The Effects of English Language Acquisition on a Native German Speaker

Spring 2007 Linguistics Club Student Colloquium
Tue, May 29, 2007, 4:00 PM in Communications Facility (CF) 25

Featuring Presenters and Topics:

Andrew M. Blick & Anna Talvi (Dr. John Underwood & Prof. Amy Carbajal): Second Language Acquisition: Spanish in the Classroom
Nick Metully (Dr. Rudi Weiss): Shanghainese Acoustic Phonetics
Nouth Lameny (Dr. Shaw Gynan): Morphology of the Lao Language
Trevor Osborn (Dr. Shaw Gynan): Spanish Vowel Sequences

Spring 2007 Scholars' Week Presentations
Fri, May 18, 2007, 10:00 AM in VU Multipurpose Room

Featuring Presenters and Topics:

Eriko Tsuji (Dr. Shaw Gynan & Dr. Kristin Denham): The Long Vowel and the Super-long Vowel in Japanese
Jennifer Mankin & Katie Douglas (Dr. Shaw Gynan & Dr. Kristin Denham): Japanese Moraic Obstruents in Native and Non-Native Speakers of Japanese
Katherine Brewer (Dr. Shaw Gynan & Dr. Kristin Denham): A Study of the Morphological Structures of Blackfoot

Winter 2007 Linguistics Program Colloquium
Wed, Mar 14, 2007, 4:00 PM in Communications Facility (CF) 25

Featuring Presenters and Topics:

Andrew M. Blick (Dr. David Fiero & Dr. Anne Lobeck): A Syntactic and Semantic Analysis of the Renaissance and Baroque periods in Cervantes' "Don Quijote"
Andrew Reed (Dr. Kendra Douglas): Constructed Languages: Their creator's intent and their forms
Eric Foster (Dr. Kendra Douglas): An Analysis of German Substratum Influence on Native German Speakers
Lauren Delgadillo (Dr. John Underwood): Universal Grammar and Second Language Acquisition
Megan Brooks (Dr. Shaw Gynan): Language Difficulty in Down Syndrome
Melanie Amaral (Dr. Kendra Douglas): Origin and Development of Caipira and Brazilian Vernacular Portuguese
Nathan Hamlitsch (Dr. Anne Lobeck): The VP Internal Subject Hypothesis

Fall 2006 Linguistics Program Colloquium
Wed, Dec 6, 2006, 3:00 PM in SMATE (Science Lecture) 110

Featuring Presenters and Topics:

Alexander M. Thompson (Dr. Masanori Deguchi): Verb Similarities and Difference Between English and Japanese
Andrew M. Blick, Juan Magana & Chelon Towner (Dr. Kendra Douglas): Spanish Speaking Immigrants: How their language is affected, and how they are affected by their language
Grant Brooks (Dr. Masanori Deguchi): Natural Semantic Metalanguage: Why it works and why it doesn't
Peiying Wang, Heather Schuck & Evan Erickson (Dr. Kendra Douglas): Language contact in Japanese and English bilinguals
Steve John Hayslip (Dr. Edward Vajda): Etymology and Semantic change in Spanish: Productivity with some Spanish suffixes: Coinage in Central American dialects

Spring 2006 Linguistics Program Colloquium
Wed, May 31, 2006, 3:00 PM in HU 102 and BH 415

Featuring Presenters and Topics:

Elisa Hamilton: A Comparative Study of Classifiers in Chinese and Japanese
Jonathan Lytle and Lisa Jacobs: Making One's Mouth Pleasant: Translating Brand Names from English to Chinese
Miho Kamijo: Differences in Chinese and Japanese Classifiers
Nathan Tracy and Katherine Shin: Comparisons between German and Chinese Passive Voice
Rie Kawai: Japanese and English Bilingual Analysis

Faculty Speaker Series
Wed, Apr 12, 2006, 5:15 PM in CF 110

Featuring the Presentation:

Dr. Fallou Ngom: Language Analysis in Asylum Cases: A Recent Development in Forensic Linguistics

Winter 2006 Student Colloquium
Wed, Mar 8, 2006, 3:00 PM in BH 106

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Fall 2005 Student Colloquium
Wed, Nov 30, 2005, 3:00 PM in CF 125

Featuring Presenters and Topics:

Adrienne Solenberger: Developing Linguistic Identity: A Focus on African American Women
Devon Tremain: An Examination of German Inflectional Morphology
Hanako Lombardi: The Language Use of Mother Goose
Korenna Rawls, Sara Newboles, Tim Hinchliffe & Erin Zabukovec: Language Contact and Native Spanish Speakers in the US
Melenie Vernon: TBA
Nathan Tracey and Kathy Shin: TBA
Tim Wellman: Attitudes of Russian-speaking Immigrants to Israel on Language Maintenance and Language Shift

Spring 2005 Student Colloquium
Thu, May 26, 2005, 4:00 PM in HH 345 & 353

Featuring Presenters and Topics:

Caleb Boteilho: The Nature of Japanese Numeral Quantifiers and their Binding Domains
Cary Mapes: Numeral Quantifiers in Japanese
Celia Farr: Language Mavens and the Myth of Language Purity
Derek Gulas & Rachael Friddell: Long Distance Referencing in Japanese
Glory Zink: Christian Church Lingo: A Sociolinguistic Investigation
Jessica Brunsvold: TBA
Mark Strong: Japanese ESL Speakers- The Phonetic Effect of L1 on L2
Peter Olsen: TBA
Sara Castro: The English Only Debate
Simon Aebersold & Lindsay Greenberg: Features of Advertising Language

Winter 2005 Student Colloquium
Tue, Mar 8, 2005, 3:00 PM in Science Lecture 130

Featuring Presenters and Topics:

Amanda Smith: The Newfoundland Dialect: Why it is so different from the rest of Canada
Amy Johansen: Wh-Movement in American Sign Language
Caitlin McPhee: The Inherent Case of Ergativity in Basque
Elisabeth Rosapepe: The Construction of Feminity in Grimms' Fairy Tales
Elizabeth Deag: Pidgins and Creoles and their Importance to Linguists
Robert Shields: Deconstructing the Construct: Properties of Hebrew and Welsh Construct State

Colloquium Info:

All linguistics majors are required to give a presentation of some of their work before graduation. You may present any quarter. This is a chance for all of us - students and faculty - to get together and to share knowledge, food, and drink. It also gives you a chance to practice giving a real live linguistics talk, just like real live linguists do. So, here are some guidelines:

In order for students to be eligible to present at any WWU student colloquium, they must complete and submit a colloquium guidelines form, returning it to Dr. Kendra Douglas.
You are encouraged to present some work that you have already done for one of your linguistics classes, many of which include a paper, project, or presentation as one of the requirements.
Presentations may be by individuals or small groups.
Presentations should be approximately 10 minutes (per group or individual) with 5 minutes for questions. (Sometimes we adjust this slightly depending on the total number of presenters.)
When you think you might have a topic, choose a linguistics faculty member as a mentor. This person will help you with the format of your presentation, handouts, overheads, multimedia setup, etc.
We can arrange for practice talks, especially if some presenters have not already or recently presented the material in another class. Talk with Dr. Kendra Douglas about this.
If you plan to present this quarter, notify Dr. Kendra Douglas of your intention to present.

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