Colloquia and Talks
Conferences and Calls for Papers
Fall Semester Reading Groups

(Linguistics Department Graduate Workshops) Grant Writing and Submission: Funding your Graduate and Post-graduate Work

Julie Auger, Dan Dinnsen, and Frances Trix will speak about funding graduate and post-graduate studies through grants, including how to write and submit grant applications.

Date	Speakers
10 February	Ken de Jong and Sandra Kübler
17 February	Steve Franks and Markus Dickinson

(Hispanic Linguistics Brown Bag Series) Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese Second Language Phonology (CASPSLaP) Poster Practice Session

Abstract will be posted as soon as it is available.

Date	Speaker(s)
8 February	Erik Willis
22 February	José Hernández
7 March	Gibran Delgado-Díaz
21 March	Allen Davis
4 April	Kimberly L. Geeslin & Bret Linford
18 April	Laura Gurzynski-Weiss, Avizia Y. Long, & Megan Solon

(Second Language Studies Colloquium Series) Speech and gesture in L2 direction-giving interactions

ABSTRACT: This proposed dissertation aims to investigate the developmental patterns of the sequential organization of direction-sets, content, and gesture in L2 direction-giving interactions. It will also examine the use of direction-giving types according to presence of a map and the familiarity with the interlocutor. Data will be analyzed for a range of interactional moves, directness of direction-giving directives, and semiotic gestures. The pilot study that investigated direction-giving of high intermediate learners and native speakers of Korean showed salient differences between the learners and the NSs in the sequential organization of direction-giving. Whereas the NSs often included parenthetical remarks within their route description, those by the learners were frequently prompted by the NS interlocutors. Some learners started route descriptions without establishing a starting point, and provided vague and incoherent direction-giving. This resulted in frequent requests for clarification and confirmation by the interlocutor. The learners were sensitive to the degree of familiarity in the use of direction-giving types, which approximated Korean native speaker norms. However, in direction-giving according to presence of a map, only learners showed task influence. The use of direction-giving types of learners was more similar to those of native speakers on the task with a map, suggesting that learners took advantage of a map. The proposed dissertation expands the pilot study to address the acquisitional issues of L2 direction-giving by including learners at different proficiency levels. In addition, in order to explore what characteristics of developmental patterns are shared in multiple languages, two typologically different languages, English and Korean, will be included.

Date	Speaker(s)
10 February	Claire Renaud
24 February	Sun-Young Shin, Ryan Lidster, Rebecca Yaeger, and Stacy Sabraw
6 April	Jim Miller and Chuck Watson

Lecture by Hélène Blondeau

More specific information will be listed as it becomes available.

Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 21 (The Third Indiana Meeting)

Invited Speakers:
Zeljko Boskovic, University of Connecticut
Damir Cavar, Eastern Michigan University
Tania Ionin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

FASL 21 will be preceded by a SPECIAL SESSION on Computational Approaches to Slavic Languages 10-11 May 2012 and followed by a free Workshop in Slavic Linguistics 14-17 May 2012.

Abstracts are invited for 30-minute presentations (plus 10 minutes discussion) on any topic dealing with formal aspects of Slavic syntax, semantics, morphology, phonology, phonetics, including language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and computational linguistics. Computational talks will be organized into the special session.

Abstracts are limited to TWO PAGES and should be ANONYMOUS. Abstract submissions should be made via the EasyChair Conference System. Specific instructions will be made available on the conference website: http://www.indiana.edu/~iuslavic/fasl21.shtml.

Authors are advised to re-check examples and glosses with speakers of the languages involved.

The deadline for abstracts has been EXTENDED to 5 FEBRUARY 2012. After that, there will be no extensions. We hope to make a program available by 15 MARCH 2012.

The Illinois Language and Linguistics Society - 4th annual meeting

The 4th annual meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society will be held April 13-15, 2012 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ILLS is a general linguistics conference open to all subfields. This year's meeting will include a special session Saturday, April 14th on the topic ?Discourse and Pragmatics.' We are currently accepting abstracts for topics in general linguistics although special consideration will be given to papers that fit the theme for the special session. Deadline for submission is February 12th.

The top 4 submitted student abstracts will be awarded $200 to cover conference travel costs.

All talks will be given 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions. Abstract submission guidelines and instructions can be found at: http://ills.linguistics.illinois.edu

Please contact lso.illinois@gmail.com with any questions you may have.

Invited Speakers: Betty J. Birner (Northern Illinois University)
Paul Kiparsky (Stanford University)
Jonathan MacDonald (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Marina Terkourafi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Robert E. Vann (Western Michigan University)

17th Annual Preparing Future Faculty Conference

This conference is sponsored by the University Graduate School and other participating departments and is FREE to all IU graduate students. Registration is not required. In order to participate in the complimentary lunch you must RSVP by Friday, February 17th, 2012 to iupffc@gmail.com with your name, department, and year in your program. There is limited seating for lunch.

Indiana University's 17th Annual Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) Graduate Conference is a one-day event designed to provide graduate students from all disciplines and at all phases of their educations with important information about preparing for their future academic careers.

The program consists of the following four sessions:

(1) Career Options, Responsibilities, and Rewards. Four panelists will discuss the career options that are available for PhD recipients.

(2) Developing a Professional Record of Research, Teaching, and Service. Panelists will discuss the aspects of potential faculty records that are appealing to members of search committees. Experts will address how graduate students can develop different aspects of their records.

(3) Teaching Is/As Brain Surgery. This panel will take an in-depth look at teaching and learning. Designed to help graduate students improve their teaching techniques, this panel will address what we as instructors need to know about this generation of college students.

(4) Navigating the Job Market. Panelists will discuss the qualities of successful candidates at different colleges and universities. This session will address the details of being on the job market; more specifically, panelists who have served on search committees will provide insider perspectives about faculty visits. This session will also provide an insider perspective on successful interviewing.

CLingDing: Computational Linguistics Hour

ABSTRACT: Despite a growing amount of work done on grammatical error detection, researchers have turned to a variety of evaluation metrics when presenting their results. Some measures that are used are uninformative, or worse, mis-leading about the usefulness of the methodology used in the experiments. We present a clear evaluation scheme that illustrates the utility of any work under scrutiny and can be applied to any error detection task. Along the way, we will provide an overview of commonly used NLP evaluation metrics and show that selecting the most informative evaluation is an essential task in presenting one's research.

Date	Speaker
7 February	Ross Israel
14 February	Markus Dickinson & Marwa Ragheb
28 February	Tony Meyer
6 March	Scott Ledbetter
20 March	Rehj Cantrell
27 March	Shahab Khan
3 April	Wren Thornton
17 April	Levi King

Korean Phonology Reading Group

Anyone interested in participating in a reading group this semester on Korean phonology should contact Stuart Davis (davis@indiana.edu).