Unless otherwise noted, colloquia are held on Fridays at 3:30 p.m. in the Joseph H. Greenberg room (number 126) in the Stanford University Linguistics Department, Margaret Jacks Hall (building 460), and are followed by a reception in the same building. Here is some information about getting to Stanford.

Fall 2005/2006 Colloquia Schedule

30 September
Qing Zhang (University of Texas, Austin) (webpage)
The 'smoothness' of Beijing speech: a socio-historical approach to the meanings of sociolinguistic variables (abstract)

14 October
Bruno Estigarribia (Stanford University) (webpage)
Learning English Yes-No Questions: Variation Shapes Acquisition (disseration proposal talk) (abstract)

Monday, 17 October, 3:30pm (jointly sponsored with CASA)
NB: Bldg. 110, Room: 111-O Michael Silverstein (University of Chicago) (webpage)
The Ethics of the Archive in the Politics of "Cultural Heritage" (abstract)

28 October
Carlos Gussenhoven (Radboud University Nijmegen) (webpage)
Explaining the historical raising of long vowels (abstract)