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News & Upcoming Events
- Dr. James Stanford (Rice
University) will present a talk titled, "When Your Mother Tongue is
not Your Mother's Tongue: Linguistic Contact and Identity Among
Exogamous Sui Clans". This talk will take
place Thursday February 7th, at 4:30pm in 104 Reed Hall.
- Symposium, "Sounds and Tastes of the Caucasus: Music, Language, and Food in
Georgia". October 25, 2007. Co-Sponsored by the Linguistics and
Cognitive Science Program.
- Congratulations to Jessica Glago 08 (team leader) and
Ari Bezman 07, members of the winning team of Google's Campus
3D contest. A team of Dartmouth students has won Google's Build Your
Campus in 3D Competition. Google asked "how would your campus look in 3D" and
challenged students to use Google SketchUp and Google Earth software to find
out. The Dartmouth group was one of seven winning teams chosen from more than
350 entries. To read more, click the following link to go to the Dartmouth News
page that features this article.
- Congratulations to Nick Rule '04 and Liz Norton
'05, recipients of National Science
Foundation (NSF) awards through the Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
Both are in the PhD program in Psychology at Tufts University. Nick Rule
(Linguistics/Psychology '04) is in his second year, studying social perception
and social neuroscience, particularly the way in which we form first
impressions. Liz Norton (Psychology modified with Linguistics '05) is currently
in the first year of the PhD program in child development. Her research focuses
on the behavioral and neurological characteristics of dyslexia. She studies the
use of language and reading assessments as well as MRI brain scanning to
determine the efficacy of reading intervention programs for elementary and high
school students with dyslexia.
- We would like to congratulate David A. Peterson in the publication of his
book, "Applicative Constructions," Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic
Theory.
- Summer
Linguistics Hike - Smarts Mountain, Summer 2004
- Fall Linguistics Hike - Smarts Mountain,
October 2003
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