Department of Linguistics Newsletter

NEWS FROM THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS

IN MEMORIAM OF ILSE LEHISTE {pg. 3}

SPOTLIGHT ON STAFF

CLAUDIA MORETTINI CLAUDIA MORETTINI, our HR and Fiscal officer has worked for the University for nearly 20 years and almost all of it has been as a HR/Fiscal Officer. She originally worked for Linguistics from 1992 until 1997, and then accepted a job with Undergraduate Student Academic Services helping to manage budgets and human resources for Honors, Exploration, Career Services, Undergraduate Advising and ROTC. She returned to the Linguistics Department in 2006.

When Claudia is away from the department, she enjoys working out, doing yoga, and swimming. Besides the gym, she enjoys needle work, reading and especially working on planning trips. Claudia loves travel, and would like to travel to Italy and Peru with both of her children sometime soon. Even though Claudia has vacationed in approximately twentyone states and approximately twenty-five countries, there’s still a great deal she’d like to see, both here and abroad.

WELCOME TO OUR 2010 GRADUATE STUDENTS!

From L-R: Alex Wein, David Howcroft, Eric Ruppe, Shontael Wanjema, Rachel Steindel, Jungmin Lee, Michael Collins, Tsz-Him Tsui, and Jefferson Barlew (not pictured)

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SPOTLIGHT ON TEACHING

LINGUISTICS 484 CODE MAKING AND CODE BREAKING Linguistics 484 was created in Spring 2006 from an NSF grant awarded to CHRIS BREW. It is a puzzle-based introduction to cryptography and its applications, designed for a general humanities audience.

In Linguistics 484, students learn to encode and decode information using progressively more sophisticated methods. They also study the history and mechanics of writing systems, computer languages, and ciphers.

The class serves as an introduction to linguistics, because the study of writing systems sets students up to think about phonology, morphology, text-to-speech conversion and the like. It also presents history and politics, as students learn about the

social and societal context of codes.

Additionally, it opens students’ eyes to the possibility that science and math can be applied to new and interesting subjects.

The class is hands-on. Throughout the quarter, students participate in debates about the role of codes in shaping world politics. Groups of

CRYPTOGRAM

students also get to design their own codes and ciphers, and try to break codes and ciphers designed by other groups. Recently, the course has also included a campus-wide scavenger hunt with coded messages as clues.

This has developed a life of its own as a student society called the Black Chamber Society.

{solution on pg. 9}

ECIHNCHD QM IRZ CI CXMZPCLZ LRIMZPNLZQRI RO ZYD EDCPIDT, RP RO TQLZQRICPK WCBDPM, XNZ QM MRWDZYQIH CPQMQIH RNZ RO ZYD URPB, IDDTM, ZQDM, FRKM, COODLZQRIM, ZCMZDM, RO ERIH HDIDPCZQRIM RO YNWCIQZK, CIT YCM QZM XCMDM XPRCT CIT ERU, LERMD ZR ZYD HPRNIT. -IRCY UDXMZDP

IN MEMORIAM

ILSE LEHISTE We are saddened by the passing of our esteemed colleague Distinguished University Professor ILSE LEHISTE, on December 25, 2010. A webpage has been set up at inguistics.osu.edu/ilse to honor Ilse. If you have thoughts, pictures or other things you would like to share, please send them to lingadm@ ling.osu.edu. Contributions in Ilse’s memory can be made online to the Ilse Lehiste Memorial Fund (#313586), or mailed to The Ohio State University Foundation, Office of University Development, 1480 West Lane Avenue, Columbus, OH 43221.

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IN RECOGNITION Congratulations to faculty member MARY BECKMAN (pictured left), who was designated a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America at the LSA’s annual meeting this year!

Graduate student KATIE CARMICHAEL was awarded a College of Humanities Small Grant for travel to the LSA annual meeting.

Graduate student JEFF HOLLIDAY was awarded a FLAS Summer Fellowship to study Korean.

Graduate student JEFF HOLLIDAY, along with MARY BECKMAN and CHANELLE MAYS were selected for a Best Student Paper award at Interspeech 2010 for their co-authored paper “Did you say susi or shushi? Measuring the emergence of robust fricative contrasts in English- and Japanese-acquiring children”. Jeff’s paper was one of three papers chosen for the award from a shortlist of around 20 papers.

Faculty member BETH HUME was awarded a Research Enhancement Grant for the study of Entropy-based Phonology.

Faculty member BOB LEVINE was awarded a Research Enhancement Grant for Explorations of neg-raising and negative polarity in Lexical Resource Semantics.

Graduate student JEONGHWA SHIN was awarded one of the Graduate School’s Alumni Grants for Graduate Research and Scholarship.

Faculty members CRAIGE ROBERTS and JUDITH TONHAUSER (along with David Beaver of UT Austin and Mandy Simons of Carnegie Mellon) were awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for work on Projective Meanings.

PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS {GRADS} KATIE CARMICHAEL presented Cajun stereotypes in Boudreaux and Thibodeaux Jokes as part of an invited panel at the American Anthropological Associations 109th Annual Meeting in New Orleans.

with Yuliia Aloshycheva at the 5th meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society.

Katie Carmichael presented You might be Cajun if…: Exaggeration of Cajun English Features in the Performance of Boudreaux and Thibodeaux Jokes at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 39 in San Antonio.

MARY BECKMAN

MARIVIC LESHO presented Language contact and the typology of modality in Chabacano, Tagalog, and Hilligaynon at the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute.

Edwards, J., Munson, B., & Beckman, M. E. (2010).

Lexicon-phonology relationships and dynamics of early language development: A commentary on Stoel-Gammon (2010). Journal of Child Language.

RORY TURNBULL presented Word Frequency and Second Mention Effects on Phonetic Reduction in Russian

Okalidou, A., Syrika, A., Beckman, M. E., & Edwards, J. (in press). Adapting a receptive vocabulary test for

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{FACULTY}

Syrika, A., Nicolaidis, K., Edwards, J., & Beckman, M. E. (in press). Acquisition of initial /s/-stop and stop-/s/ sequences in Greek. To appear in Language and Speech.

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preschool-aged Greek-speaking children. To appear in International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders.

Information on attitudes toward (ING). Journal of Language and Social Psychology. 29(2):214-223.

Munson, B., Edwards, J., Schellinger, S., Beckman, M. E., & Meyer, M. (2010). Deconstructing phonetic transcription: Language-specificity, covert contrast, perceptual bias, and an extraterrestrial view of vox humana. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 24(4-5): 245-260.

CYNTHIA CLOPPER

CHRIS BREW

Clopper, C. G., Pierrehumbert, J. B., & Tamati, T. N. (2010). Lexical neighborhoods and phonological confusability in cross-dialect word recognition in noise.

Laboratory Phonology, 1, 65-92.

Peter Culicover

Heintz, I., Fosler-Lussier, J.E., and Brew,Chris (2009).

Discriminative Input Stream Combination for Conditional Random Field Phone Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Language Processing, 17:8, pp 1533-1546, 2009.

Rytting, C.A., Fosler-Lussier J.E., and Brew, Chris (2010).

Segmenting words from natural speech: Subsegmental variation in segmental cues, Submitted to Journal of Child Language special issue on simulations, November 2010 Li, Jianguo and Brew, Chris (2010). A Class-based Approach to Disambiguating Levin Verbs Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Special Issue on Distributional Lexical Semantics, May 2010 Boxwell, Stephen, Dennis Mehay and Chris Brew (2010).

What a Parser can Learn from a Semantic Role Labeler and Vice Versa. 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2010). MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA. Boxwell, Stephen and Chris Brew (2010): A Pilot Arabic CCGbank. Accepted to the poster session of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Valetta, Malta, 17-20 May 2010.

KATHERYN CAMPBELL-KIBLER Campbell-Kibler, K. (in press). The sociolinguistic variant as a carrier of social meaning. Language Variation and Change.

Campbell-Kibler, K. (2010). Perception in sociolinguistics.

Language and Linguistics Compass.

4(6):377-389.

Campbell-Kibler, K. (2010). The effect of speaker

Bradlow, A., Clopper, C., Smiljanic, R., & Walter, M. A. (in press). A perceptual similarity space for languages: Evidence from five native language listener groups.

Speech Communication.

Culicover, Peter W. and Ray Jackendoff. (2010) Quantitative methods alone are not enough. Trends in Cognitive Science.

Culicover, Peter and W. Parataxis. Simpler Syntax.

(2010). In Marie-José Béguelin, Mathieu Avanzi, Gilles Corminboeuf, eds., Actes du 1er Colloque International de Macrosyntaxe, Vol. 2. Peter Lang.

Culicover, Peter, W. Core and Periphery. (2010) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences. (invited encyclopedia entry).

Culicover, Peter. Constructions and the notion ‘possible human language’. Invited Talk. University of Tuebingen.

July 22, 2010.

Culicover, Peter. ‘Grammar and Complexity’. Invited Lecture. University of Tuebingen. July 15, 2010.

BETH HUME Hall, Kathleen, Elizabeth Hume, Fred Mailhot, Adam Ussishkin & Andrew Wedel. (To appear). Entropy as an organizing principle in phonology. Theoretical Linguistics.

Hume, Elizabeth. (To appear). Phonological Markedness.

Key Topics in Phonology Series. Cambridge University Press.

Hume, Elizabeth, Frédéric Mailhot, Andrew Wedel, Kathleen Hall, Dahee Kim, Adam Ussishkin, Martine Adda-Decker, Cédric Gendrot and Cécile Fougeron. (To appear). Anti-markedness patterns in French deletion

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and epenthesis: An information-theoretic account.

Proceedings of the 2011 Berkeley Linguistics Society.

Hume, Elizabeth & Frédéric Mailhot. (2011). The role of entropy and surprisal in phonologization and language change. In A. Yu (ed.), Origins of Sound Patterns: Approaches to Phonologization. Oxford University Press.

Hume, Elizabeth. (2011). Markedness. In M. van Oostendorp, C. Ewen, E. Hume and K. Rice (eds.), Companion to Phonology. Blackwell Publishing.

Van Oostendorp, Marc, Colin Ewen, Elizabeth Hume and Keren Rice. (2011). Companion to Phonology (5 volumes).

Blackwell Publishing.

Culicover, Peter & Elizabeth Hume. (2010). Basics of Language for Language Learners. Columbus, OH: OSU Press.

BRIAN JOSEPH Joseph, Brian, Helena Riha, Dikka Berven, and Donald Winford. (2010) Forums with experts as a way to teach sociolinguistics online. American Speech 85.2.238-250.

Joseph, Brian. (to appear) Chapter 41: English in Contact: Greek. In Historical Linguistics of English: An International Handbook (Handbook of Linguistics and Communication Science (HSK) series), Volume 1, ed. by Alexander Bergs. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Joseph, Brian. (2011) Children rule, or do they (as far as innovations are concerned)? Invited peer commentary on J. Meisel Bilingual language acquisition and theories of diachronic change: Bilingualism as cause and effect of grammatical change. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 14.

ROBERT LEVINE Levine, Robert. (2011) Beyond any and ever. Invited speaker. University of G¨ottingen Workshop on Negative Polarity. Gottingen, Germany.15 January, 2011.

Levine, Robert. (2011) SGF coordination in English: light vs. heavy stylistic inversion and the status of pro.

In Representing Language, electronic volume published

by The University of California/UC Santa Cruz Linguistics

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Research Center.

Levine, Robert. (2010) The ass camouflage construction: masks as parasitic heads. Language 86.265–301.

DAVID ODDEN Odden, D. (to appear) Ordering. B. Vaux (ed). Rules and constraints in contemporary phonological theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Odden, D. (to appear) The Noun Phrase in Hawrami. S. Karimi, V. Samiian & D. Stilo (eds), Proceedings of the First International Conference on Iranian Linguistics.

Cambridge Scholars Press. (w. Anders Holmberg)

CARL POLLARD Pollard, C. (in press) Covert movement in logical grammar. In S. Pogodalla, M. Quatrini, and C. Retor_e, eds., Logic and Grammar: Essays Presented to Alain Lecomte on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday. LNCS/ FOLLI. Kubota, Y. and C. Pollard (in press) Phonological interpretation into preordered algebras. In J. Michaelis, ed., Proceeedings of the 11th Conference on the Mathematics of Language (MOL 11), Bielefeld, Germany, August 2009. Springer: Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

Pollard, C. (2011) The calculus of responsibility and commitment. In A. Lecomte and S. Tron_con, eds., Games, Dialogs, and Interactions: Proceedings of the PRELUDE Program. LNAI 6505. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 177-190.

De Groote, P., S. Pogodalla, and C. Pollard (2010) About parallel and syntactocentric formalisms: a perspective from the encoding of Convergent Grammar into Abstract Categorial Grammar. Fundamenta Informaticae 104:1-21.

Martin, S. and C. Pollard. (to appear) Dynamic hyperintensional semantics: enriching contexts for typetheoretic discourse analysis. To appear in Proceedings of Formal Grammar 2010.

Mihalicek, V. and C. Pollard. (to appear) Distinguishing phenogrammar from tectogrammar simplies the analysis of interrogatives. To appear in Proceedings of Formal

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Grammar 2010.

Pollard,. C. ‘Enriching Contexts for Type-Theoretic Dynamics. (with Scott Martin)’. Invited Lecture. Workshop on Logical Methods in Discourse, INRIA, Nancy, December 2009

CRAIGE ROBERTS Roberts, C. (to appear) Topics. In Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger & Paul Portner (eds.) Semantics: an International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning.

Mouton de Gruyter.

Eds., Prosodic categories: production, perception and comprehension. Chicago: Springer.

Hickman, L.L., Firestone, A.R., & Speer, S.R. (2010). Eye fixations when viewing faces. Journal of the American Dental Association, 141, pp 1-7.

Judith Tonhauser Tonhauser, J and Cory Shain. (to appear) The synchrony and diachrony of differential object marking in Paraguayan Guaraní. In Language Variation and Change 22(3).

Roberts, C. (to appear) Information Structure: Toward an integrated theory of formal pragmatics. In Semantics and Pragmatics.

Tonhauser, J. and Jungmee Lee. (2010) Temporal interpretation without tense: Coordination constructions in Korean and Japanese. Journal of Semantics 27(3): 307341.

WILLIAM SCHULER

Tonhauser, J. and Erika Colijn. (2010) Word order in Paraguayan Guaraní. International Journal of American Linguistics 76: 255-288.

Schuler, William. (2010). Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms (TAG+10), New Haven, CT. Wu, Stephen, Asaf Bachrach, Carlos Cardenas, and William Schuler. (2010). Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’10), Uppsala, Sweden.

Miller, Tim and William Schuler. (2010) Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling in Computational Linguistics, Uppsala, Sweden.

Schuler, William, Samir Abdel-Rahman, Tim Miller, and Lane Schwartz. (2010) Computational Linguistics, 36(1):1– 30, MIT Press.

SHARI SPEER Speer, S.R., Warren, P., & Schafer, A.J. (to appear).

Situationally independent prosodic phrasing. Laboratory Phonology, 3.

Speer, S.R. (to appear). Eye movements as a measure of spoken language processing. In Cohn, A., Fougeron, C., & Huffman, M. (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Laboratory Phonology.

Ito, K. & Speer, S. R. (2011). Semantically-independent but contextually-dependent interpretation of contrastive accent. In Sonia Frota, Pilar Prieto and Gorka Elordieta,

Tonhauser, J. (to appear) The Paraguayan Guaraní future marker -ta : Formal semantics and cross-linguistic comparison. In Tense Across Languages , Rathert, Monika and Renate Musan (eds.), Tübingen: Niemeyer.

Tonhauser, J. and Paul Kiparsky. (to appear) Semantics of inflection. For Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter; Maienborn, Claudia, Klaus von Heusinger and Paul Portner (eds.).

Tonhauser, J, Yusuke Kubota, Jungmee Lee, and Anastasia Smirnova. (to appear) Cross-linguistic variation in temporal adjunct clauses. Cahier Chronos: Selected Proceedings of Chronos 8, Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi.

MICHAEL WHITE Nakatsu, Crystal and Michael White. (2010). Generating with Discourse Combinatory Categorial Grammar.

Linguistic Issues in Language Techology, 4(1):1-62.

White, Michael, Robert A., J. Clark, and Johanna D. Moore. (2010). Generating tailored, comparative descriptions with contextually appropriate intonation.

Computational Linguistics, 36(2):159-201.

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Espinosa, Dominic, Rajakrishnan Rajkumar, Michael White, and Shoshana Berleant. (2010). Further meta-evaluation of broad coverage surface realization. To appear in Proc. of EMNLP-10.

Espinosa, Dominic, Michael White, Eric Fosler-Lussier and Chris Brew. (2010). Machine Learning for Text Selection with Expressive Unit-Selection Voices. To appear in Proc. of INTERSPEECH-10.

DONALD WINFORD Winford, D. (to appear) Caribbean English-lexicon creoles: History, structure and use. In Arthur Spears (ed.)

Language in the African Diaspora.

Winford, D. (to appear) Revisiting Variation between sa and o in Sranan. In Lars Hinrichs et al (eds). Variation and contact.

Rajkumar, Rajakrishnan and Michael White. (2010).

Designing Agreement Features for Realization Ranking.

To appear in Proc. of COLING-10.

Winford, D. (to appear) Contact and borrowing. In Handbook of Language Contact, ed. by Raymond Hickey.

Rajkumar, Rajakrishnan, Michael White, Shari R. Speer, and Kiwako Ito. (to appear). Evaluating prosody in synthetic speech with online (eye-tracking) and o_ine (rating) methods. In Proc. of the 7th Speech Synthesis Workshop.

Winford, Donald & Ingo Plag. (To appear). Sranan Tongo language structure subdatabase. In: Michaelis, Susanne & Maurer, Philippe & Haspelmath, Martin & Huber, Magnus (eds.), Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online. Munich: Max Planck Digital Library.

ALUMNI UPDATES

REX WALLACE (’84) is now Associate Dean for Research for the College of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He and his wife also welcomed their second grandchild, Daniel Madigan Yorke on December 19th.

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JOHN NERBONNE (’83) is directing an ICT project in which Ugandan students pursue Ph. D.’s in Computer and Information Science, both in the Netherlands and in Uganda. [see photo: Gulu-2009-Classroom.JPG] He says of his work: “I find this inspiring, particularly when you consider that northern Uganda was torn by insurrection until around 2003. Oh, and the projects I supervise directly are linguistic, albeit with a strong emphasis on applied computational linguistics. I wouldn’t want it any other way!”

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UPCOMING EVENTS SUNDAY JULY 10-14: Summer Linguistic Institute for Youth Scholars (SLIYS) FRIDAY OCTOBER 14-15: Semantics Workshop of the Midwest and Prairies (SWAMP) FRIDAY NOVEMBER 11-13: Symposium in Honor of Ilse Lehiste PAST NEWS AND EVENTS October 8, 2010 ColloquiumFest Part I (Qualifying Paper Presentations): Elizabeth McCullough and Oxana Skorniakova October 15, 2010 ColloquiumFest Part II (Qualifying Paper Presentations): Jon Dehdari, Deborah Morton and Chris Worth

In October, the graduate students went on the annual apple picking trip to Lynd’s Fruit Farm. Here, KATIE CARMICHAEL, BRICE RUSS, and PAT REIDY enjoy the apples.

October 22, 2010 Invited lecture by Irina Sekerina January 10, 2011 Invited lecture by Florian Jaeger January 14-15, 2011 Empirical, Formal and Historical Approaches to Evidentiality: 8th Annual MLK Day Symposium in Linguistics In August, the Department donated 100 copies of Language Files to the FLA Department of the University of Haiti, as part of an effort to rebuild higher education in Haiti.

Department members enjoyed themselves at the Halloween party and the Winter holiday party.

Cryptogram Solution: Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground. -Noah Webster

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PLEASE SUPPORT THE DEPARTMENT! Your support of the Department means a lot to us.

Please consider donating through OSU’s iGive program.

We have set up two funds for that purpose: LINGUISTICS DISCRETIONARY FUND A fund for enriching research, teaching and other opportunities for members of the OSU linguistics community (faculty, students, alumni). Donations to this fund will be used to support visiting scholars, invite speakers, support activities that recognize excellence in teaching, research and service, host conferences/ workshops at OSU and elsewhere, and other such activities.

DISTINGUISHED LINGUISTICS PROFESSORSHIP FUND A fund to provide compensation and academic support for a faculty member in the Linguistics Department. The fund will become endowed when it reaches $25,000.00.

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