http://bruinling.org Bruin Linguists at UCLA Tue, 01 Jun 2010 03:33:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We will be meeting on Wednesday June 2nd for a Ling study group.  This is a good chance to meet with other Ling undergrads and prepare for your finals.  We will be meeting in the Campbell conference room, 2122 at 6pm.  Bring your questions! http://bruinling.org/2010/spring-week-10-ling-study-group/ Did you know BLing has a Twitter account? Follow us at: https://twitter.com/bruinling http://bruinling.org/2010/bling-on-twitter/ We will be easing into the end of the year with a social, and everyone's invited!! The social will be held at Acapulco (on Glendon) on Thursday, May 27th (Time TBA). Come de-stress with your fellow BLing-ers and eat some good food. Please email publicity@bruinling.org, with ... http://bruinling.org/2010/bling-social-at-acapulco-on-thursday-527/ Congratulations to the newly elected members of the BLing board for the 2010-11 year! President: Brent Woo Vice President: Julie Gerard Treasurer: Greg Ord Secretary: Liese Mondorf Public Affairs: Claire Stabile In order to consolidate the workload into a more efficient board, the duties of Social Chair and Webmaster have been delegated among the five ... http://bruinling.org/2010/new-board-for-10-11-year/ We would like to invite you all to the Spring Week 6 meeting of the Bruin Linguists! Our Speaker: Professor Kendra Willson Topic: Icelandic Nicknames Kendra Willson is an Assistant Professor in the Scandinavian Section at UCLA. She works on Old and Modern Icelandic language, literature, and culture and Nordic language history. She ... http://bruinling.org/2010/spring-week-6-gm-icelandic-nicknames-elections/ WE ARE CURRENTLY SELLING THIS YEAR'S BLing SHIRTS. FORMS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE LING DEPT OFFICE (Campbell, third floor). BUY ONE (or more) BEFORE THEY SELL OUT!! Why I'm going to this BLing meeting: Prof. Ed Stabler What's he gonna talk about: Computational Models of Language Universals Ed Stabler is professor in the ... http://bruinling.org/2010/spring-week-4-gm-computational-models-of-language-universals/ We would like to invite you all to the fourth Winter Quarter meeting of the Bruin Linguists! Our Speaker: Professor Pat Keating Topic: "Pitch and Voice Quality Variation in English and Mandarin" Professor Keating is a professor in the Linguistics Department, as well as the Director of the UCLA Phonetics Lab.  She specializes ... http://bruinling.org/2010/winter-week-8-gm-pitch-variation-in-english-and-mandarin/ Our next meeting is Wednesday, February 10th from 6-8pm, location Rolfe 2118 (note room change!) Our Speaker: Professor Olga Yokoyama Topic: "Discourse, Sentence Intonation, and Word Order" Professor Yokoyama is a professor and the Chair of the Applied Linguistics Department at UCLA.  Some of her research interests include functional syntax and semantics, ... http://bruinling.org/2010/winter-week-6-gm-discourse-sentence-intonation-and-word-order/ We would like to invite you all to the second Winter Quarter meeting of the Bruin Linguists! Our Speaker: Professor Susie Curtiss Topic: Specific Language Impairment (SLI) Professor Curtiss is a member of the UCLA Linguistics faculty.  She will be speaking about what SLI is, what the major linguistic impairment(s) seems to be, ... http://bruinling.org/2010/209/ Fellow linguistics undergraduates: We are proud to announce the official call for abstracts for the Southern California Undergraduate Linguistics Conference. It will be held on April 10, 2010 on the UCLA campus in Westwood, Los Angeles. Abstracts should be submitted by Friday, March 5 at 11:59 pm (PST) to BLing AT ... http://bruinling.org/2010/call-for-abstracts-sculc-a-new-undergraduate-conference/