Category Archives: Events

Dissertation Defense – Michela Cresci

Ms. Michela Cresci defends her doctoral dissertation on December 12, 2013  from 1pm-4pm, at the Graduate Center, in the Linguistics Thesis Room

Title: The Sound Patterns of Camuno

Committee members:  Profs. Juliette Blevins (Chair), Giovanni Bonfadini, Kathleen Currie Hall, Douglas H. Whalen

This is an open defense.

GC CUNY Colloquium – Ander Egurtzegi “Accentogenesis in Basque: From phrasal pitch accent to word-level stress”

The ELI is proud to sponsor a Linguistics Department Colloquium series April 25th by Ander Egurtzegi entitled “Accentogenesis in Basque: From phrasal pitch accent to word-level stress”

For more information and the abstract, please check out the Events Page.

Juliette Blevins “Preserving Aboriginal Languages” – Digital Video Conference

Juliette Blevins, Invited speaker, “Preserving Aboriginal Languages”, Digitial Video Conference, U.S. Dept. of State’s Bureau of International Information Programs, and U.S. Embassies in Ottawa and Paramaribo.

Lecture on preserving aboriginal languages to audiences in Suriname and Canada, including speakers of numerous indigenous languages in both of these countries, followed by Q & A session.

Special Event – Christian DiCanio

The Endangered Language Initiative of the Linguistics Program at the CUNY Graduate Center is pleased to announce two special events this coming Thursday, March 14th, relating to tone in endangered languages.

Our visitor is Christian DiCanio, Research Associate at Haskins Laboratories.

At 2pm, he will offer an informal workshop, “Fieldwork and tone in Mexico”. This workshop is free and open to the public and will take place in room 3305 at the Graduate Center. See the Event listing here.

It will cover fieldwork on Oto-Manguean languages, tonal systems, current research on tone, and methods for organizing lexical tone distinctions.

At 4:15, Christian will offer an invited talk titled “Coarticulatory variation in Trique tone” at the Linguistics Program in Room 6417. Event link here.

 

Christian DiCanio – Fieldwork and tone in Mexico

Christian DiCanio, Research Associate at Haskins Laboratories, will offer an informal workshop, “Fieldwork and tone in Mexico”.

It will cover fieldwork on Oto-Manguean languages, tonal systems, current research on tone, and methods for organizing lexical tone distinctions.

March 13th, 2013 at the Graduate Center