February 13th, 2016

Saturday Morning Physics

Gravitational Waves - Einstein's Audacious Prediction / Keith Riles, Professor of Physics (U - M)

A hundred years ago, Einstein realized that his General Theory of Relativity implies that gravity propagates like light. These gravitational...

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Museum Studies Program brown bag

“But Is That Even a ‘Real’ Museum”? Exhibits and Their Objects at the Hockey Hall of Fame and Museum

The presenter will discuss her experiences at Toronto’s Hockey Hall of Fame. The museum operates as a tourist attraction, historical...

Phondi

Nick Henriksen: Consonant Gemination in Andalusian Spanish

Spanish is often described as a language that lacks word-internal geminate consonants. This study explores an ongoing sound change in...

SoConDi

Ariana Bancu: Word Order Variation in Two- and Three-Verb Complexes in Transylvanian Saxon

This study analyzes word order variation in Transylvanian Saxon (TS) verbal complexes, in a multilingual community from Viscri, Romania. Due...

Linguistics Colloquium

Andries Coetzee: Sound Systems in Flux: How Speakers and Listeners Cope with Old and New Forms

Abstract: This presentation reviews current research in our Phonetics Lab, conducted in collaboration between Professors Pam Beddor and...