Spring 2015

Spring 2015

An eye-tracking experiment at the pod
Spotlight: Science Outreach
In November, faculty member Kathryn Campbell-Kibler and courtesy faculty member Laura Wagner (Dept. of Psychology) were awarded a three-year NSF grant to make…
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Spotlight: Linguistics on the Move
In summer of 2016, major renovations will begin on Oxley Hall, the Department of Linguistics’ home since 1992. The renovations are slated to take two years, after which the Department of Linguistics…
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50 Years of Ohio State Linguistics
In the early 1960s, when the Division of Linguistics had just been formed and had only three full-time faculty members (William Wang, Ilse Lehiste, and Charles…
Ethan Hill at the Denman
Linguistics at the Denman
Seven linguistics majors and minors participated in the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum this year. Congratulations to them, and thanks to the faculty and graduate students who participated as…
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Ohio State at the Penn Linguistics Conference
In conjunction with the 39th Penn Linguistics Conference, the Penn Linguistics Department held a special panel titled "Sociolinguistic Frontiers” on the occasion of Bill Labov’s retirement. There…
Dean Osmer visited the department to present Mike Phelan with his award
In Recognition
Mike Phelan received the Graduate Associate Teaching Award.  Dean Osmer visited the department to bestow the following components of the prize: a keychain, a…
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Alumni Updates
Marivic Lesho (PhD, ’13) has accepted a postdoctoral appointment in Postcolonial Language Studies at the University of Bremen, in Germany. She'll be working with Eeva Sippola, conducting research on…
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Grad Student Presentations and Publications
Jefferson Barlew Barlew, J. (2015). “Point of view and the semantics of spatial expressions in Mushunguli and English.”  Journal of Semantics. doi: 10.1093/jos/ffu018 Barlew, J.  (2015, January…
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Faculty Publications
Mary Beckman Holliday, J. J., Reidy, P. F., Beckman, M. E., & Edwards, J. (2015, in press). Quantifying the robustness of the English sibilant fricative contrast in children. Journal of Speech,…
Maryam Harmon makes candy at the holiday party
News and Events
 In December, chair Shari Speer hosted a holiday party at her home. In January, the Underlings invited alumnus DJ…