Mellon 23 Faculty Workshop in Linguistics
Research Colloquium October 3, 2009

- OPEN TO THE PUBLIC -

Swarthmore College
Scheuer Room of Kohlberg Hall
1:30–5pm

Participating schools: Amherst, Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Carleton, Grinnell, Haverford, Macalester, Middlebury, Oberlin, Pomona, Reed, Rhodes, Smith, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Williams

In 2006, the Mellon Foundation awarded the Mellon 23, a group of twenty-three liberal arts colleges, a Faculty Career Enhancement Program grant. This grant is being used to fund collaborative initiatives to support faculty in their scholarly and creative work and to aid them in gaining a broader view of their institutions and of the pressing challenges facing American liberal arts colleges.

Saturday Afternoon Research Colloquium

Leader: Mary Paster (Pomona)

1:30p: Mary Paster (Pomona) and Elisha Nuchi (Pomona '09)
"An Analysis of Metaphony in Felechosa Asturian"

2:00p: Abigail Wilkins (Smith ’09) and Peter de Villiers (Smith)
"African American English Dialect and Narrative Development"

2:30p: Emily Cibelli (Wellesley ‘09) and Andrea Levitt (Wellesley)
"On Being an Accent Sponge: Phonetic Convergence in Bilingual Speakers"

3:00p: Break

3:15p: Donna Jo Napoli (Swarthmore), Mark Mai (Swarthmore ’09), and Nick Gaw (Swarthmore ’09) "Primary Movement in Sign Languages: A Study of Five Languages"

3:45p: Charles Bradley (Middlebury '09) "Mechanics of the Person Agreement Marker in Deutsche Gebärdensprache"

4:15p: Kate Harrigan (Smith ’09) and Jill de Villers (Smith) "Children's Production and Comprehension of Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases in English: An Optimality Theory Analysis"

4:45p: Discussion and synthesis, time permitting.

Saturday Afternoon Reception:
Reception is for all interested students and faculty

For more information email: dnapoli1@swarthmore.edu
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