Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Applied Microeconomics/IO Seminar: The Equilibrium Effects of Public Provision in Education Markets: Evidence from a Public School Expansion Policy (December 6, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68281 68281-17037508@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 10:00am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:

In a variety of markets with private options, the optimal level of public provision may require balancing a tradeoff between reducing private options’ market power with the possibility of crowding out potentially high-quality products. These considerations are particularly relevant in many developing countries’ education systems where private schools capture high market shares while public schools are overcrowded. We study the equilibrium effects of public provision in the context of a large expansion of public schools in the Dominican Republic. Over a five-year period, the government aimed to increase the number of public school classrooms by 78%. Using an event study framework, we estimate the effect of a new public school on neighborhood outcomes and competing private schools, where we instrument for how quickly the public school construction project finished with whether the procurement lottery randomly assigned the project to a firm or an unaffiliated individual. We find that a new public increased neighborhood students’ test scores, both in the public and private sectors. As public enrollment increased, a large number of private schools closed while the surviving schools lowered prices and increased investment in school quality. To study how the provision of high quality schools varies with the level of public provision, and to compare the effects to the alternative policy of public financing, we specify an empirical model of demand (students choosing schools) and supply (schools choosing whether to stay open, how much to invest in quality, and what price to charge).

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Dec 2019 08:15:37 -0500 2019-12-06T10:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T11:30:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Economics at Work (December 6, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68600 68600-17105360@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Economics@Work is intended for any student who is interested in learning about a variety of career opportunities for economics majors. Early students of economics may use this class to explore whether an economics major best suits their interests and goals. Advanced students in economics will benefit from the information and networking opportunities.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Oct 2019 12:24:40 -0400 2019-12-06T13:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T14:30:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Labor Economics: What is a Good School, and Can Parents Tell? Evidence on the Multidimensionality of School Output (December 6, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68424 68424-17080057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract

Is a school’s impact on high-stakes test scores a good measure of its overall impact on students? Do parents value school impacts on tests, longer-run outcomes, or both? To answer the first question, we exploit quasi-random school assignments and data from Trinidad and Tobago. We construct exogenous instruments for each individual school and estimate the causal impacts of individual schools on several short- and longer-run outcomes. Schools’ impacts on high-stakes tests are weakly related to impacts on low-stakes tests, dropout, crime, teen motherhood, and formal labor market participation. To answer the second question, we link estimated school
impacts to parents’ ranked lists of schools. We propose a modified mulitnomial logit model that allows one to infer preferences for school attributes even in some settings where choices are strategic. Parents of higher-achieving students value schools that improve high-stakes test scores conditional on average outcomes, proximity, and even peer quality. Parents also value schools that reduce crime and increase formal labor market participation. Most parents’ preferences for school impacts on labor-market and crime outcomes are, as strong, or stronger than those for test scores. These results provide a potential explanation for recent findings that parent preferences are not strongly related to test-score impacts. They also suggest that evaluations based solely on test scores may be very misleading about the welfare effects of school choice.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 21 Nov 2019 10:09:43 -0500 2019-12-06T13:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T14:30:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Phondi Discussion Group (December 6, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66303 66303-16725836@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology. We meet weekly during the academic year to present our research, discuss "hot" topics in the field, and practice upcoming conference or other presentations. We welcome anyone with interests in phonetics and phonology to join us.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Sep 2019 11:57:38 -0400 2019-12-06T13:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T14:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
HistLing Discussion Group (December 6, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64927 64927-16491244@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. Group members include interested faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates from a wide variety of U-M departments -- Linguistics, Anthropology, Asian Languages and Cultures, Classics, Germanic Languages, Near Eastern Studies, Romance Languages, Slavic Languages - and from two nearby universities, Eastern Michigan (Ypsilanti) and Wayne State (Detroit).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Aug 2019 09:49:44 -0400 2019-12-06T14:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T15:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion HistLing graphic
Economic Theory: Stability in Repeated Matching Markets (December 6, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69031 69031-17220012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:

I develop a framework for studying repeated matching markets, where in every period, a new generation of short-lived agents on one side of the market is matched to a fixed set of long-lived institutions on the other. Within this framework, I characterize self-enforcing arrangements for two types of environments. When wages are rigid, as in the matching market for hospitals and medical residents, players can be partitioned into two sets: regardless of patience level, some players can be assigned only according to a static stable matching; when institutions are patient, the other players can be assigned in ways that are unstable in one-shot interactions. I discuss these results’ implications for allocating residents to rural hospitals. When wages can be flexibly adjusted, I show that with flexible wages, repeated interaction resolves well-known non-existence issues: while static stable matchings may fail to exist with complementarities and/or peer effects, self-enforcing matching processes always exist if institutions are sufficiently patient.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Dec 2019 09:34:45 -0500 2019-12-06T14:30:00-05:00 2019-12-06T16:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
SoConDi Discussion Group (December 6, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65546 65546-16611719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology. Members of the SoConDi group present their work in progress from time to time, and discuss current issues in the disciplines, or study selected readings together.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Aug 2019 11:52:45 -0400 2019-12-06T15:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T16:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Public Finance: “Does eviction cause poverty? Quasi-experimental evidence from Cook County, IL” (joint with John Eric Humphries, Nick Mader, and Daniel Tannenbaum) (December 9, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66603 66603-16767943@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 9, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:

Each year, more than two million U.S. households have an eviction case filed against them. Many cities have recently implemented policies aimed at reducing the number of evictions, motivated by research showing strong associations between being evicted and subsequent adverse economic outcomes. Yet it is difficult to determine to what extent those associations represent causal relationships, because eviction itself is likely to be a consequence of adverse life events. This paper addresses that challenge and offers new causal evidence on how eviction affects financial distress, residential mobility, and neighborhood quality. We collect the near-universe of Cook County court records over a period of seventeen years, and link these records to credit bureau and payday loans data. Using this data, we characterize the trajectory of financial strain in the run-up and aftermath of eviction court for both evicted and non-evicted households, finding high levels and striking increases in financial strain in the years before an eviction case is filed. Guided by this descriptive evidence, we employ two approaches to draw causal inference on the effect of eviction. The first takes advantage of the panel data through a difference-in-differences design. The second is an instrumental variables strategy, relying on the fact that court cases are randomly assigned to judges of varying leniency. We find that eviction negatively impacts credit access and durable consumption for several years. However, the effects are small relative to the financial strain experienced by both evicted and non-evicted tenants in the run-up to an eviction filing.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Dec 2019 11:14:28 -0500 2019-12-09T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-09T17:30:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Economic History (December 10, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68318 68318-17045994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 11 Oct 2019 14:51:33 -0400 2019-12-10T14:30:00-05:00 2019-12-10T16:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Macroeconomics - CANCELLED (December 11, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68262 68262-17037418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

*Please note that this seminar is cancelled!!

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Dec 2019 07:55:50 -0500 2019-12-11T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-11T17:20:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Dissertation Defense (December 13, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70197 70197-17547230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 13, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Linguistics PhD candidate Kate Sherwood will defend her dissertation, "The Prosodic System of Southern Bobo Madare," on Friday, Dec. 13, at 12 p.m. Committee chair: Jelena Krivokapic.

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Other Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:49:39 -0500 2019-12-13T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-13T14:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Other Lorch Hall
CANCELED: Phondi Discussion Group (January 10, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71189 71189-17785590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 10, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology. We meet roughly biweekly during the academic year to present our research, discuss "hot" topics in the field, and practice upcoming conference or other presentations. We welcome anyone with interests in phonetics and phonology to join us.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:24:17 -0400 2020-01-10T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-10T14:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
HistLing Discussion Group (January 10, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70206 70206-17547400@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 10, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. Group members include interested faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates from a wide variety of U-M departments -- Linguistics, Anthropology, Asian Languages and Cultures, Classics, Germanic Languages, Near Eastern Studies, Romance Languages, Slavic Languages - and from two nearby universities, Eastern Michigan (Ypsilanti) and Wayne State (Detroit).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:11:44 -0500 2020-01-10T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-10T15:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
SoConDi Discussion Group: "Convergence, Divergence and Innovation in Language Contact" (January 10, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70220 70220-17549983@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 10, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Marlyse Baptista, Uriel Weinreich Collegiate Professor of Linguistics, will give a talk on "Convergence, Divergence and Innovation in Language Contact: A View from Creole Genesis."

ABSTRACT
From the early years of Contact Linguistics (Schuchardt, 1882), linguists have noted that when two or more languages come into contact, whether it is in the context of L2 acquisition (Ellis & Sagarra, 2011;Tolentino, L. C., & N. Tokowicz, 2014), bilingualism (Silva-Corvalán, 1994; Toribio, 2004), trilingualism (Rothman, 2010, 2015; Rothman & Cabrelli Amaro, 2010; Rothman et al., 2015) or multilingualism leading to language creation (Rougé, 1986; Kihm, 1990; Corne, 1999), it is often (but not always!) the case that the features that the languages in contact have in common promote acquisition or language creation. More precisely, the phonemes, morphemes, lexemes or syntactic structures that speakers perceive as being similar in the languages in contact, what we will call here, congruent features or domains, are likely to be acquired more easily in L2 (or L3/L4...) or are more likely to contribute to the grammatical make-up (and lexicon) of the emerging language in the case of creole genesis.

This paper represents a first step in a long-term research program exploring how new languages emerge in a multilingual setting. It examines the role of convergence in Creole formation and development, using a competition and selection framework. Specifically, it illustrates how morphosyntactic and semantic features are more likely to be selected into the grammatical makeup of a given Creole when they preexist and are shared by some of the source languages present in its linguistic ecology. This is empirically supported in this paper by numerous case studies and a survey of congruent features in 20 contact languages across 19 grammatical and lexical domains. In order to show how convergence operates, I propose an algorithm and a model of matter and pattern mapping, adapted to the multilingual setting in which Creole languages emerge. In addition to a set of variables, the model includes both the linguistic ecology (linguistic factors) and speakers' attitudes (non-linguistic factors) (Thomason, 2001) to predict (in a non-deterministic fashion) the features that are more likely to win within a competition and selection framework (Mufwene, 2001). It shows that even when a given feature is traceable to two or more sources, it readily diverges from the original sources and is innovative. The paper also explores cases where convergence does not take place and examines the conditions underlying such outcome.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 13:32:14 -0500 2020-01-10T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-10T16:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
CANCELED: Phondi Discussion Group (January 17, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71189 71189-17785591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 17, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology. We meet roughly biweekly during the academic year to present our research, discuss "hot" topics in the field, and practice upcoming conference or other presentations. We welcome anyone with interests in phonetics and phonology to join us.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:24:17 -0400 2020-01-17T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-17T14:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
CANCELED: Phondi Discussion Group (January 24, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71189 71189-17785592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology. We meet roughly biweekly during the academic year to present our research, discuss "hot" topics in the field, and practice upcoming conference or other presentations. We welcome anyone with interests in phonetics and phonology to join us.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:24:17 -0400 2020-01-24T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T14:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
HistLing Discussion Group (January 24, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70208 70208-17547483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. Group members include interested faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates from a wide variety of U-M departments -- Linguistics, Anthropology, Asian Languages and Cultures, Classics, Germanic Languages, Near Eastern Studies, Romance Languages, Slavic Languages - and from two nearby universities, Eastern Michigan (Ypsilanti) and Wayne State (Detroit).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 22 Jan 2020 14:48:32 -0500 2020-01-24T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T15:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
SoConDi Discussion Group: "Convergence, Divergence and Innovation in Language Contact" (January 24, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70220 70220-17549984@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Marlyse Baptista, Uriel Weinreich Collegiate Professor of Linguistics, will give a talk on "Convergence, Divergence and Innovation in Language Contact: A View from Creole Genesis."

ABSTRACT
From the early years of Contact Linguistics (Schuchardt, 1882), linguists have noted that when two or more languages come into contact, whether it is in the context of L2 acquisition (Ellis & Sagarra, 2011;Tolentino, L. C., & N. Tokowicz, 2014), bilingualism (Silva-Corvalán, 1994; Toribio, 2004), trilingualism (Rothman, 2010, 2015; Rothman & Cabrelli Amaro, 2010; Rothman et al., 2015) or multilingualism leading to language creation (Rougé, 1986; Kihm, 1990; Corne, 1999), it is often (but not always!) the case that the features that the languages in contact have in common promote acquisition or language creation. More precisely, the phonemes, morphemes, lexemes or syntactic structures that speakers perceive as being similar in the languages in contact, what we will call here, congruent features or domains, are likely to be acquired more easily in L2 (or L3/L4...) or are more likely to contribute to the grammatical make-up (and lexicon) of the emerging language in the case of creole genesis.

This paper represents a first step in a long-term research program exploring how new languages emerge in a multilingual setting. It examines the role of convergence in Creole formation and development, using a competition and selection framework. Specifically, it illustrates how morphosyntactic and semantic features are more likely to be selected into the grammatical makeup of a given Creole when they preexist and are shared by some of the source languages present in its linguistic ecology. This is empirically supported in this paper by numerous case studies and a survey of congruent features in 20 contact languages across 19 grammatical and lexical domains. In order to show how convergence operates, I propose an algorithm and a model of matter and pattern mapping, adapted to the multilingual setting in which Creole languages emerge. In addition to a set of variables, the model includes both the linguistic ecology (linguistic factors) and speakers' attitudes (non-linguistic factors) (Thomason, 2001) to predict (in a non-deterministic fashion) the features that are more likely to win within a competition and selection framework (Mufwene, 2001). It shows that even when a given feature is traceable to two or more sources, it readily diverges from the original sources and is innovative. The paper also explores cases where convergence does not take place and examines the conditions underlying such outcome.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 13:32:14 -0500 2020-01-24T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T16:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
CANCELED: Phondi Discussion Group (January 31, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71189 71189-17785593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology. We meet roughly biweekly during the academic year to present our research, discuss "hot" topics in the field, and practice upcoming conference or other presentations. We welcome anyone with interests in phonetics and phonology to join us.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:24:17 -0400 2020-01-31T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T14:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Economics at Work (January 31, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70946 70946-17758141@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Economics@Work is intended for any student who is interested in learning about a variety of career opportunities for economics majors. Early students of economics may use this class to explore whether an economics major best suits their interests and goals. Advanced students in economics will benefit from the information and networking opportunities.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 09 Jan 2020 10:58:56 -0500 2020-01-31T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T14:10:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Economics
Linguistics Colloquium: Computational Models of Retrieval Processes (February 6, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72273 72273-17966046@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 10:30am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Virtual colloquium (via BlueJeans) featuring Shravan Vasishth. Shravan Vasishth is professor of linguistics at the University of Potsdam, Germany, and holds the chair Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics (Language Processing). His research focuses on computational cognitive modeling, in particular, computational modeling of sentence processing in unimpaired and impaired populations, and the application of mathematical, computational, experimental, and statistical methods (particularly Bayesian methods) in linguistics and psychology.

ABSTRACT
Computational models of retrieval processes: An evaluation using benchmark data

The talk will begin by revisiting the key predictions of the ACT-R based model of sentence processing (Lewis and Vasishth, 2005, henceforth LV05). As discussed in Engelmann, Jäger, and Vasishth, 2020, the LV05 model predicts two classes of similarity-based interference effects: inhibitory and facilitatory interference. Jäger, Engelmann, and Vasishth, 2017, carried out a meta-analysis of some 100 existing effect estimates (self-paced reading and eyetracking during reading). This work showed that the LV05 model's predictions are only partly consistent with the current evidence available. A closer look at the published data suggests that the published studies are likely to be severely underpowered. As Gelman and Carlin, 2014, have pointed out, when power is low, statistically significant effect estimates will be highly misleading: either the effects will be overestimated, or the sign of the effect will be incorrect (for a real-life demonstration, see Vasishth, Mertzen, Jäger, and Gelman, 2018). Coupled with the problem of publication bias (in so-called high-impact journals, "big news" claims are published more often than "failed" studies or more tempered claims), these underpowered studies make theory evaluation difficult to impossible. What can we do as researchers? How to proceed?

In the second part of the talk, I show one way that we can resolve these problems. In their classic paper, Roberts and Pashler (2000) laid out two important criteria for model evaluation: the model needs to make quantitatively constrained predictions, and the effect estimates have to be measured with high precision. Modeling researchers usually have one more criterion: model evaluation should always be carried out in the context of a competing baseline model to be meaningful. As a case study of model evaluation, we compare the predictive performance (using k-fold cross-validation) of the LV05 model with a competing model of retrieval processes, the McElree 2003 direct-access model (Nicenboim and Vasishth, 2018). The evaluation data-set is a relatively high-precision study on inhibitory interference effects in German number agreement (Nicenboim, Vasishth, Engelmann, and Suckow, 2018).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Feb 2020 16:12:46 -0500 2020-02-06T10:30:00-05:00 2020-02-06T12:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
CANCELED: Phondi Discussion Group (February 7, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71189 71189-17785594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology. We meet roughly biweekly during the academic year to present our research, discuss "hot" topics in the field, and practice upcoming conference or other presentations. We welcome anyone with interests in phonetics and phonology to join us.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:24:17 -0400 2020-02-07T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T14:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Economics at Work (February 7, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70947 70947-17760216@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Economics@Work is intended for any student who is interested in learning about a variety of career opportunities for economics majors. Early students of economics may use this class to explore whether an economics major best suits their interests and goals. Advanced students in economics will benefit from the information and networking opportunities.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 09 Jan 2020 10:59:24 -0500 2020-02-07T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T14:10:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Economics
HistLing Discussion Group: "Making Hay out of Armenian: A Whirlwind Tour" (February 7, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70209 70209-17547566@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. Group members include interested faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates from a wide variety of U-M departments -- Linguistics, Anthropology, Asian Languages and Cultures, Classics, Germanic Languages, Near Eastern Studies, Romance Languages, Slavic Languages - and from two nearby universities, Eastern Michigan (Ypsilanti) and Wayne State (Detroit).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 28 Jan 2020 09:16:29 -0500 2020-02-07T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T15:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
SoConDi Discussion Group: "Convergence, Divergence and Innovation in Language Contact" (February 7, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70220 70220-17549985@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Marlyse Baptista, Uriel Weinreich Collegiate Professor of Linguistics, will give a talk on "Convergence, Divergence and Innovation in Language Contact: A View from Creole Genesis."

ABSTRACT
From the early years of Contact Linguistics (Schuchardt, 1882), linguists have noted that when two or more languages come into contact, whether it is in the context of L2 acquisition (Ellis & Sagarra, 2011;Tolentino, L. C., & N. Tokowicz, 2014), bilingualism (Silva-Corvalán, 1994; Toribio, 2004), trilingualism (Rothman, 2010, 2015; Rothman & Cabrelli Amaro, 2010; Rothman et al., 2015) or multilingualism leading to language creation (Rougé, 1986; Kihm, 1990; Corne, 1999), it is often (but not always!) the case that the features that the languages in contact have in common promote acquisition or language creation. More precisely, the phonemes, morphemes, lexemes or syntactic structures that speakers perceive as being similar in the languages in contact, what we will call here, congruent features or domains, are likely to be acquired more easily in L2 (or L3/L4...) or are more likely to contribute to the grammatical make-up (and lexicon) of the emerging language in the case of creole genesis.

This paper represents a first step in a long-term research program exploring how new languages emerge in a multilingual setting. It examines the role of convergence in Creole formation and development, using a competition and selection framework. Specifically, it illustrates how morphosyntactic and semantic features are more likely to be selected into the grammatical makeup of a given Creole when they preexist and are shared by some of the source languages present in its linguistic ecology. This is empirically supported in this paper by numerous case studies and a survey of congruent features in 20 contact languages across 19 grammatical and lexical domains. In order to show how convergence operates, I propose an algorithm and a model of matter and pattern mapping, adapted to the multilingual setting in which Creole languages emerge. In addition to a set of variables, the model includes both the linguistic ecology (linguistic factors) and speakers' attitudes (non-linguistic factors) (Thomason, 2001) to predict (in a non-deterministic fashion) the features that are more likely to win within a competition and selection framework (Mufwene, 2001). It shows that even when a given feature is traceable to two or more sources, it readily diverges from the original sources and is innovative. The paper also explores cases where convergence does not take place and examines the conditions underlying such outcome.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 13:32:14 -0500 2020-02-07T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T16:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Department Colloquium (February 11, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72447 72447-18007181@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 10:00am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Edward Stabler, Professor of Linguistics, UC Los Angeles, will give a talk titled "Head movement after syntax."

ABSTRACT
Much work in Chomskian syntax defends the view that syntactic structures are unordered, with the computation of prosodic form imposing the linear, temporal order of language productions. Treating head movement as part of this post-syntactic process allows us to explain why some basic properties of head movement differ so significantly from phrasal movement. This talk reviews some versions of this idea and formulates an explicit computational model, extending the framework of Yu and Stabler's (2017) treatment of Samoan syntax/prosody. This perspective preserves a rigorous connection to parsing models, but leaves many puzzles, some of which are briefly surveyed here.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Feb 2020 10:45:09 -0500 2020-02-11T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T11:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
CANCELED: Phondi Discussion Group (February 14, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71189 71189-17785595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology. We meet roughly biweekly during the academic year to present our research, discuss "hot" topics in the field, and practice upcoming conference or other presentations. We welcome anyone with interests in phonetics and phonology to join us.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:24:17 -0400 2020-02-14T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T14:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
SynSem Discussion Group (February 14, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72621 72621-18033396@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The syntax-semantics group provides a forum within which Linguistics students and faculty at UM, and from neighboring universities (thus far including EMU, MSU, Oakland University, Wayne State and UM-Flint) can informally present or just discuss and share their ongoing research in these domains. The group is frequently used by students to practice conference presentations and receive constructive feedback from familiar faces.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Feb 2020 08:43:18 -0500 2020-02-14T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T15:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
SoConDi Discussion Group (February 14, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72536 72536-18015946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology. Members of the SoConDi group present their work in progress from time to time, and discuss current issues in the disciplines, or study selected readings together.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 08:53:58 -0500 2020-02-14T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T16:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
CANCELED: Phondi Discussion Group (February 21, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71189 71189-17785596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology. We meet roughly biweekly during the academic year to present our research, discuss "hot" topics in the field, and practice upcoming conference or other presentations. We welcome anyone with interests in phonetics and phonology to join us.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:24:17 -0400 2020-02-21T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T14:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Economics at Work (February 21, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71144 71144-17783443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Economics@Work is intended for any student who is interested in learning about a variety of career opportunities for economics majors. Early students of economics may use this class to explore whether an economics major best suits their interests and goals. Advanced students in economics will benefit from the information and networking opportunities.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 09 Jan 2020 10:59:43 -0500 2020-02-21T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T14:10:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Economics
HistLing Discussion Group: "Austronesian-Hmong-Mien sound correspondences (February 21, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70211 70211-17547649@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. Group members include interested faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates from a wide variety of U-M departments -- Linguistics, Anthropology, Asian Languages and Cultures, Classics, Germanic Languages, Near Eastern Studies, Romance Languages, Slavic Languages - and from two nearby universities, Eastern Michigan (Ypsilanti) and Wayne State (Detroit).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 28 Jan 2020 09:18:01 -0500 2020-02-21T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T15:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
SynSem Discussion Group (February 21, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72622 72622-18033397@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Miki Obata and Professor Marlyse Baptista will give a talk titled "Asymmetrical Agreement: Evidence from Focus-Agreement in Cape Verdean Creole."

ABSTRACT
This presentation focuses on A’-movement in Cape Verdean Creole (CVC), spoken on the islands of Cape Verde, and demonstrates that asymmetrical focus-agreement takes place in wh-questions (full-agreement) and exclamatives (partial-agreement) in CVC based on Kato et al.’s (2014) Search-based agreement system. As a consequence, we show that our system can capture commonality between Focus-agreement in CVC and Subj.-Verb agreement in Standard Arabic discussed in Kinjo (2015).

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 21 Feb 2020 09:13:07 -0500 2020-02-21T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T15:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
CANCELED: Phondi Discussion Group (February 28, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71189 71189-17785597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 28, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology. We meet roughly biweekly during the academic year to present our research, discuss "hot" topics in the field, and practice upcoming conference or other presentations. We welcome anyone with interests in phonetics and phonology to join us.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:24:17 -0400 2020-02-28T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-28T14:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
SoConDi Discussion Group (February 28, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72537 72537-18015947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 28, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology. Members of the SoConDi group present their work in progress from time to time, and discuss current issues in the disciplines, or study selected readings together.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 08:55:29 -0500 2020-02-28T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-28T16:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Public Finance Seminar (March 5, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73620 73620-18269848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 5, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Mar 2020 16:21:33 -0500 2020-03-05T16:00:00-05:00 2020-03-05T17:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Public Finance & Labor Economics: PAY TRANSPARENCY AND THE GENDER GAP (March 9, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67507 67507-16866613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 9, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract:
We examine the impact of public sector salary disclosure laws on university faculty salaries in Canada. The laws, which enable public access to the salaries of individual faculty if they exceed specified thresholds, were introduced in different provinces at different times. Using detailed administrative data covering the majority of faculty in Canada, and an event-study research design that exploits within-province variation in exposure to the policy across institutions and academic departments, we find robust evidence that that the laws reduced the gender pay gap between men and women by approximately 30 percent. There is suggestive evidence that higher female salaries contributed to the narrowing of the gender gap. The reduction in the gender gap is primarily in universities where faculty are unionized.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 21 Feb 2020 10:02:20 -0500 2020-03-09T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-09T17:30:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
CANCELED: Phondi Discussion Group (March 13, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71189 71189-17785599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology. We meet roughly biweekly during the academic year to present our research, discuss "hot" topics in the field, and practice upcoming conference or other presentations. We welcome anyone with interests in phonetics and phonology to join us.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:24:17 -0400 2020-03-13T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T14:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
HistLing Discussion Group (March 13, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70400 70400-17594447@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. Group members include interested faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates from a wide variety of U-M departments -- Linguistics, Anthropology, Asian Languages and Cultures, Classics, Germanic Languages, Near Eastern Studies, Romance Languages, Slavic Languages - and from two nearby universities, Eastern Michigan (Ypsilanti) and Wayne State (Detroit).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Dec 2019 12:28:25 -0500 2020-03-13T14:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T15:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
"Spatial metaphors across sign languages with automatic and manual methods" (March 16, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73401 73401-18214947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 16, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Postdoctoral researcher Carl "Calle" Borstell will give a talk titled "Spatial metaphors across sign languages with automatic and manual methods." ASL interpretation will be provided.

ABSTRACT
Concepts may be construed along different spatial axes. In this talk, I will show an analysis of sign locations in 776 signs from 16 antonym pairs across 27 sign languages in the Spread the Sign online dictionary to examine metaphorical mappings of emotional valence (positive vs. negative). The study makes use of both an automatic (Openpose) and a manual analysis of sign location and movement direction to investigate cross-linguistic patterns of spatial valence contrasts. In accordance with the hypothesis, positive valence concepts are more often associated with upward movements than their negative counterparts, pointing to a systematic pattern for vertical valence contrasts – a known metaphor across languages – iconically mapped onto physical sign articulation. However, the same pattern does not hold for relative sign heights, such that positive valence concepts are generally articulated higher than negative valence concepts. Thus, it seems the dynamic contrast in movement is the key property, rather than plain height. Interestingly, there is also a difference in the distribution of movements along the sagittal axis, such that outward movement is more often associated with positive than negative valence, a finding that warrants further cross-linguistic research on spatial metaphors.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 28 Feb 2020 11:44:20 -0500 2020-03-16T15:30:00-04:00 2020-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
CANCELED: Phondi Discussion Group (March 27, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71189 71189-17785601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology. We meet roughly biweekly during the academic year to present our research, discuss "hot" topics in the field, and practice upcoming conference or other presentations. We welcome anyone with interests in phonetics and phonology to join us.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:24:17 -0400 2020-03-27T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-27T14:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
CANCELED: HistLing Discussion Group: Mitchell Newberry (March 27, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70401 70401-17594448@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. Group members include interested faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates from a wide variety of U-M departments -- Linguistics, Anthropology, Asian Languages and Cultures, Classics, Germanic Languages, Near Eastern Studies, Romance Languages, Slavic Languages - and from two nearby universities, Eastern Michigan (Ypsilanti) and Wayne State (Detroit).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:25:13 -0400 2020-03-27T14:00:00-04:00 2020-03-27T15:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
CANCELED: Phondi Discussion Group (April 3, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71189 71189-17785602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology. We meet roughly biweekly during the academic year to present our research, discuss "hot" topics in the field, and practice upcoming conference or other presentations. We welcome anyone with interests in phonetics and phonology to join us.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:24:17 -0400 2020-04-03T13:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T14:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
CANCELED: SynSem Discussion Group (April 3, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72624 72624-18033399@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The syntax-semantics group provides a forum within which Linguistics students and faculty at UM, and from neighboring universities (thus far including EMU, MSU, Oakland University, Wayne State and UM-Flint) can informally present or just discuss and share their ongoing research in these domains. The group is frequently used by students to practice conference presentations and receive constructive feedback from familiar faces.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:26:28 -0400 2020-04-03T15:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T16:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
CANCELED: Phondi Discussion Group (April 10, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71189 71189-17785603@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology. We meet roughly biweekly during the academic year to present our research, discuss "hot" topics in the field, and practice upcoming conference or other presentations. We welcome anyone with interests in phonetics and phonology to join us.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:24:17 -0400 2020-04-10T13:00:00-04:00 2020-04-10T14:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
CANCELED: HistLing Discussion Group: Ben Fortson (April 10, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70402 70402-17594449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. Group members include interested faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates from a wide variety of U-M departments -- Linguistics, Anthropology, Asian Languages and Cultures, Classics, Germanic Languages, Near Eastern Studies, Romance Languages, Slavic Languages - and from two nearby universities, Eastern Michigan (Ypsilanti) and Wayne State (Detroit).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:24:50 -0400 2020-04-10T14:00:00-04:00 2020-04-10T15:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
CANCELED: SoConDi Discussion Group (April 10, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72539 72539-18015949@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology. Members of the SoConDi group present their work in progress from time to time, and discuss current issues in the disciplines, or study selected readings together.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:36:44 -0400 2020-04-10T15:00:00-04:00 2020-04-10T16:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
CANCELED: Phondi Discussion Group (April 17, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71189 71189-17785604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 17, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology. We meet roughly biweekly during the academic year to present our research, discuss "hot" topics in the field, and practice upcoming conference or other presentations. We welcome anyone with interests in phonetics and phonology to join us.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:24:17 -0400 2020-04-17T13:00:00-04:00 2020-04-17T14:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
CANCELED: SynSem Discussion Group (April 17, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72625 72625-18033401@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 17, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The syntax-semantics group provides a forum within which Linguistics students and faculty at UM, and from neighboring universities (thus far including EMU, MSU, Oakland University, Wayne State and UM-Flint) can informally present or just discuss and share their ongoing research in these domains. The group is frequently used by students to practice conference presentations and receive constructive feedback from familiar faces.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:25:52 -0400 2020-04-17T15:00:00-04:00 2020-04-17T16:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall