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Recent SIL-UND Colloquium Series

The Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) sponsors a colloquium series each summer as part of its program at the University of North Dakota. Following is a list of speakers and titles from past summers. (See also the announcement for the current summer.)

2008

  • June 12: Cathy Marlett, SIL International
    Mollusks in the Seri culture
  • June 19: Tom Headland, SIL International
    Population Instability and Injustice in a Philippine Hunter-Gatherer Society: How Demographic Data Can Tell the Story in Cyberspace
  • June 26: Steve Parker, SIL International and GIAL
    The naturalness and density of phonological rule interactions
  • July 10: Steve Parkhurst, SIL International
    The Ebb and Flow of Linguistic Forces
  • July 17: Xiaozhau Huang, UND
    A Case of Sociolinguistic Significance of Academic Discourse
  • July 24: Inga McKendry, SIL International
    Where do floating tones come from and where do they go?
  • John J. McCarthy July 30 (Wed) and July 31 (Thu): Special Guest Lecturer
    John J. McCarthy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    An introduction to Optimality Theory

    Optimality Theory has had a big impact on the field of phonology and other areas of linguistics as well. This two-part lecture will cover the what and why of OT (Wednesday) and the rationale for OT's central premise, constraint violability (Thursday).

    John J. McCarthy is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of A Thematic Guide to Optimality Theory (Cambridge, 2002), Hidden Generalizations: Phonological Opacity in Optimality Theory (Equinox, 2007), and Doing Optimality Theory (Blackwell, 2008). He has edited or co-edited five books and is the author or co-author of over one hundred articles. His Boston accent returns in unguarded moments, and he'll be drawing on evidence from that dialect in one of his lectures.

2006

  • June 15: Ken Olson, SIL International
    The (inter)dental approximant
  • June 22: Jan Allen, SIL International
    The ubiquitous, anomalous -om- infix in Kankanaey
  • June 29: Adam Baker, SIL-UND and University of Arizona
    Do bad, ban, and bang all have the same vowel?
  • July 6: Tom Headland, SIL International
    Pythons and people as predators and prey
  • July 20: Chen Yi-Ting, Arizona State University
    ESL program or TOEFL?
  • July 27: Elizabeth Parks, SIL International
    “He’d Rather Kill Himself Than Go Back To School”: A Sociolinguistic Profile of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Homeschoolers
  • August 2 (Wed): Gary Simons, SIL International
    Ensuring that digital data last
  • August 3: Gary Simons, SIL
    Empowering digital data to interoperate

2005

  • June 9: Stephen Parkhurst, SIL
    Optimality Theory and the Formational Constraints of Signed Languages
  • June 16: Susan Hasselbring
    It is for us! The Acceptance of Written Standards
  • June 23: Emma Pavey
    Basically, what it is is this
  • June 30: Steve Parker, SIL
    Rhinoglottophilia and the affirmation grunt—a universal tendency
  • July 7: Steve and Kelly Walter, SIL
    English Instruction in the Schools of Eritrea
  • July 14: Dan Everett, University of Manchester and SIL-UND
    Ethnogrammar—Cultural Constraints on Grammar and Cognitioni n Pirahã
  • July 20: Dan Everett, University of Manchester and SIL-UND
    Plato's Problem vs. Aristotle's Problem in Theories of Language
  • July 21: Dan Everett, University of Manchester and SIL-UND
    Ethnophonology: On culture and the sound system of Pirahã
  • July 28: Keith Snider, SIL and CanIL
    Pitch and Vowel Quality in Chumburung: An Instrumental Study

2004

  • June 10: Diana Weber, SIL and UND
    The Permanent Forum in Indigenous Issues
    Special Focus: Indigenous Women
  • June 17: Albert Bickford, SIL and UND
    1-Handed Persons and ASL Morphology
  • June 24: Adam Baker, University of Arizona
    Physiology of the Tongue
  • July 1: Michael Beard, UND Department of English
    Z is for Saffron: From a Study of the Arabic alphabet
  • July 8: Larin Adams, SIL
    Doing Structural Semantics in a Cognitive World
  • July 15: Stephen Parkhurst, SIL
    How the Iconic Nature of Signed Languages Affects Sociolinguistic Survey
  • July 22: David Weber, SIL, UND, and
    Curso Internacional de Lingüística, Traducción y Alfabetización, Universidad Ricardo Palma
    Site of attachment and trajectory in Quechua and Bora
  • July 29: Mary Morgan, SIL
    Community-Based Literacy in Nepal

2003

  • June 12: Adam Baker, University of Arizona
    Reduplication As Minimal Copying to Fill Empty Prosodic Structure
  • June 19: Albert Bickford, SIL
    The Signed Languages of Eastern Europe
  • June 26: Thomas Headland, SIL
    Hunter-Gatherer Peoples of the Philippines: Their Rain Forest Is Gone:  What Now?
  • July 2: Diana S. Weber, SIL
    A mixed-method study of constructivist learning in pre-service teachers in Huánuco, Peru
  • July 10: Alan D. Boydell, University of Colorado
    Ludlings and Secret Languages: A Case Study of French ‘Verlan’
  • July 17: Bill Bright, Professor Emeritus, UCLA, and University of Colorado
    Writing systems: Origins, types, choices
  • July 24: Keith Snider, SIL and Trinity Western University
    Tonal Phenomena in Chumburung: An Instrumental Study
  • July 31: Greg Thomson
    What Makes L2 Speech Appear Grammatical?

2002

  • June 18: David Weber, SIL
    A Tale of Two Translation Theories
  • June 25: Steve Parker, SIL
    Quantifying the Sonority Hierarchy
  • July 2: Mike Cahill, International Linguistics Coordinator, SIL
    Some Universals of Tone
  • July 9 (Gamble 1): Mary Morgan, SIL
    Languages Worth Writing
  • July 16: Claire Ramsey, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    Deaf Infants in the Modern World: Newborn Screening, Cochlear Implants, Full Inclusion, and Bilingualism
  • July 23: Diane Lillo-Martin, University of Connecticut
    The Structure and Intonation of WH-Questions in American Sign Language
  • July 30: Dennis Malone, SIL
    Stabilizing Indigenous Languages: Can it be Done, Should it be Done?
  • August 6: Richard Swanson, University of Minnesota
    The Concept of 'person' or 'human being' among the Gourmantche of Burkina Faso

2001

  • June 14: Susan Malone, SIL
    Mother tongue education for social integration / language maintenance
  • June 21: Thomas Headland, SIL
    Did anthropologists cause deadly epidemic in Amazon tribe?
  • June 28: Daniel Everett, SIL
    Asymmetrical embedding in Wari and the ontology of syntax
  • July 5: Stephen Marlett, SIL
    Reanalysis of passive and negative prefixes in Seri
  • July 12: Joan Baart, SIL
    Modeling the melody of speech: the analysis-by-synthesis approach to the study of intonation and tone
  • July 19: Peter Ladefoged, Professor Emeritus, University of California at Los Angeles
    The linguistic use of different types of phonation
  • July 26: Carolyn Miller, President SIL International
    The Tiger Mother's Child and the Cow Mother's Child: exploring cultural values through folk literature
  • August 2: Lars Dyrud, SIL
    Stress in Hindi-Urdu: are there any acoustic correlates of stress apart from the effects of intonation?

2000

  • June 20: Stephen A. Marlett, SIL
    Quantification with 'all' in Seri
  • June 27: Jan Buckwalter, Ph.D. student, Language Education, Indiana University
    But 'b' is not 'Book': Emergent Biliteracy in Chinese and English
  • July 6 (Thursday): J. Albert Bickford, SIL
    Academic Publication on the Web: the SIL-Mexico Experience
  • July 11: Greg Thomson, University of Alberta
    Do Adults Acquire Second Language Inflectional Morphology?
  • July 18: Daniel L. Everett, SIL
    Grammar & Evolution: Problems for the Darwinian Model
  • July 25: Steve Walter, SIL and Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics
    Theory and Practice in Bilingual Education: How extensible?
  • Aug 1: David Marshall, UND
    A Conversation About Linguistic Configuration and Its Utilization for Research

1999

  • June 15: Stephen Levinsohn
    Three Ways of Reporting Speech in Koine Greek
  • June 22: Steve Parker
    Bora Vowels and Distinctive Feature Theory
  • June 29: Greg Thomson
    Language Learning from a Processing Perspective
  • July 6: Aaron Shryock
    Language Classification and Subclassification
  • July 13: Lindsay Whaley
    What's Cross-linguistic about Quantifier Float?
  • July 20: Dr. James Emejulu and Dr. Nzang-Bie Yolande
    Linguistic Perspectives in Gabon
  • July 22: Lindsay Whaley
    Reduplication in Oroqen in an Altaic Context
  • July 27: Heather Walker
    Student Participation in the Academic Discourse Community
  • August 3: Steve Walter
    After the Decade of Literacy, What Next?

1998

  • June 9: John Clifton
    Problems in Testing Russian Bilingualism
  • June 16: Steven Bird
    When Marking Tone Reduces Fluency: An Orthography Experiment in Cameroon
  • June 23: Stephen J. Barber
    The adaptation of Literacy to Social Environment
  • June 30: Mark Karan
    Language Vitality Assessments
  • July 7: David Weber
    Bora Classifiers: Their Use and Grammatical Status
  • July 14: Alla Yeliseyeva
    Bilingualism and Language Planning in Ukraine
  • July 21: Dick Montag
    Ethnography--They Will Tell You
  • July 28: Yasuko Nagai
    Community-Based Curriculum and Staff Development in the Recent Education Reform in Papua New Guinea