The Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) is pleased to announce its 2006 summer colloquium series at the University of North Dakota. Except as noted, all colloquia are held at 8:00-9:00 p.m. on Thursday evenings in Gamble Hall, room 5. All interested persons are invited to attend. (See also colloquia from recent years.)

• 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