Vol. 12/Winter 2003

Letter from the chair 2002 sees many changes within department reetings to our current and former continues to attract student interest, and we number of visitors to the department. You students, to our faculty and have recently been granted approval to offer can learn about our various guests in these Gvisitors, and to all friends of the a PhD minor in this area. Although last pages. This year we also took in 13 new Department of Linguistics at Indiana year we did not fill our tenure-track graduate students, a recent record. These University! 2002 has been a good year for opening, we have been fortunate enough to individuals, a truly talented bunch, hail the department, and a busy one for our hire computational linguist Damir C´avar from diverse reaches of the globe. I faculty, students, and alumni. I hope you (see page 4) as a visiting faculty member encourage you to read about their interests will enjoy catching up on all our news as for this academic year. Meanwhile, the and accomplishments on page 6. you read through these pages. search continues. The position, which is a Our African language offerings are Before I review what were, for me, some joint appointment with the Program in increasing in popularity. Happily, these of the highlights of the past year, I want to Cognitive Science, can be viewed at enrollment pressures have enabled us to hire tell you about our upcoming LSA recep- www.indiana. edu/~lingdept/ IU alumna Alwiya Omar, PhD’92, as our tion. All friends of linguistics at IU are job0110.html. In conjunction with this new African languages coordinator, at the invited to a reception at the annual meeting development, the Department of Linguis- rank of clinical associate professor. We of the Linguistic Society of America, in tics has expanded to occupy the fourth floor welcome her back to Bloomington and look Atlanta. The reception will be held in the of Memorial Hall, which will eventually forward to many years of continued growth Walton Room of the Hilton Atlanta and house our computational linguists, their in this area. Already she is working very Towers Hotel, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on research labs, and a new instructional hard to highlight African studies and Friday, Jan. 3, 2003. All are welcome, so computer lab. I am very excited about the promote African languages at IU. Alwiya is please drop by. I look forward to seeing old invaluable prospects for the betterment of organizing the annual meeting of the friends and making new ones. our various programs that this additional African Languages Teachers Association at Turning to more local matters, the MA space offers us. IU Bloomington in April, and next year we program in computational linguistics In addition to Damir, we welcome a (continued on page 3) Professors Newman, de Jong receive well-deserved promotions his spring, Paul Newman was one of founded the prestigious Journal of African Tonly four persons in the IU system to Languages and Linguistics. We are extremely be named Distinguished Professor, the proud of his promotion to Distinguished highest academic honor bestowed by the Professor rank. university on its professors. We congratulate Associate Professor In a career that spans 35 years and four Kenneth de Jong on his recent promotion continents, Newman has garnered an with tenure. De Jong received his PhD in international reputation for his contribu- linguistics from Ohio State University in tions to linguistics. His works are cited by 1991. He has been director of undergradu- Africanists and theoretical linguists the ate studies in the department since 1996 world over, and leaders in his field consider and also serves as a core faculty member of Kenneth de Jong Paul Newman him the founder of modern comparative the Program in Cognitive Science. He is the Chadic linguistics. Larry Hyman, professor principal investigator on major NSF and of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research; and chair of linguistics, UC–Berkeley, NIH grants on “Articulatory and Perceptual Language and Speech; JASA; Perception and describes Newman as “one of the most Correlates of Syllable Structure.” Psychophysics; and Language. It addresses distinguished researchers and teachers De Jong’s general research interests issues of how speech actions are organized working in any aspect of our field today.” concern the role of speech production and into fluent utterances, how this organiza- Newman has authored or co-authored 12 perception in the formation of linguistic tion is governed by the prosodic conven- books, including his nearly 800-page convention. His published work focuses on tions of a particular language, and how this magnum opus, The Hausa Language: An the relationship between speech actions and organization indicates the relationship of Encyclopedic Reference Grammar, contributed linguistic structure, and has appeared in the utterance to the surrounding discourse. more than 100 articles and reviews, and such journals as Journal of Phonetics; Journal 1 Around the department

IUB to host linguistics mellifera, darting “solitary from flower to Marvin and M. Joan Carmony, James and flower, sipping nectar, gathering pollen Ann Coady, and Martin and Jane Malone. symposium from flowers, serendipitously fertilizing In 2002, Householder Awards were Indiana University Bloomington will host whatever he touches.” presented to graduate students Han-Yong the 33rd Linguistic Symposium on Sebeok is survived by his wife, Jean Park, Sahoko Ichikawa, Kyoko Nagao, and Romance Languages April 24–27, 2003. Umiker-Sebeok, of Bloomington, and three Masanori Deguchi. Keynote speakers include Luigi Burzio, José daughters: Veronica Sebeok Wald, of Thanks also go to all contributors to the Ignacio Hualde, Shana Poplack, and Juan Chicago; Jessica A. Sebeok, of New Haven; Linguistics Enrichment Fund: Julie Uriagereka. For further information send and Erica L. Sebeok, of New York City. Auger, Mimi Bentley, Robert Botne, Damir ´ e-mail to [email protected] or check the Cavar, Stuart Davis, Steven and Karen Web site at www.indiana.edu/~lsrl33. Kathleen M. Fenton Franks, Hila Hill, Martin and Jane Malone, (1921–2002) Alwiya Omar and Ahmed Shariff, Susan Pearson, J.J. Pia, Catherine Rudin, Hugo We announce with regret the passing of In memoriam Quené, Michael Turner, and Barbara Vance. Kathleen M. Fenton, 81, who died in Thomas A. Sebeok Malden, Mass., on Sept. 12. After holding a (1920–2001) position at the Center for Applied Linguis- Stork enjoys busy fall Thomas A. Sebeok, a pioneer in the field of tics in Washington, she worked at IU • Bushra Zawaydeh, PhD’99, and her semiotics and Distinguished Professor Bloomington for the late Professor Thomas husband, Dan, celebrated the birth of Laura emeritus of linguistics and semiotics, died Sebeok at his Research Center for the Zawaydeh Sandman on Sept. 25. Her at his home on Dec. 21, 2001. Sebeok Language Sciences. She became editor of weight was 5 pounds, 15 ounces. served as chair of the IU Research Center the journal Language Sciences, a position she • Mafuyu Kitahara, PhD’01, and for Language and Semiotic Studies, was a held until 1977. She later proofread the Haruka Fukazawa, welcomed son Eugene professor of anthropology and of Uralic LSA journal Language and received the on Aug. 17. His weight was 7 pounds, 8 and Altaic studies (a department he second Victoria A. Fromkin Prize for ounces. founded, now known as the Department of distinguished service to the society. Fenton • Ann Baker, administrative assistant for Central Eurasian Studies), and was a fellow leaves no immediate family. the department, would like to share her joy of the Folklore Institute and in the School and excitement over the birth of her new of Library and Information Science. Born Thanks, donors! grandchild, Katie Lynn Miller, on Sept. 25. in Budapest, in 1920, Sebeok left Hungary • Laurent and Lori Dekydtspotter, The department expresses gratitude to the in 1936 to study at Magdelene College, MLS’99, announce the birth of their following generous donors to the House- Cambridge University. The following year daughter, Chloe, on Nov. 4. Her weight holder Memorial Fund: David Blood, he immigrated to the United States. Sebeok was 5 pounds, 2 ounces. earned a doctorate in 1945 at Princeton University, commuting to Columbia to study with his dissertation director, Roman LSA highlights Jakobson. Sebeok came to IU in 1943. He directed Linguists have Georgia on their minds the Research Center for Anthropology, A number of IU Department of Linguistics faculty members, students, and alumni Folklore, and Linguistics and, in 1956, are presenting papers at the LSA annual winter meeting in Atlanta this January. established the Research Center for Presenters include Language and Semiotic Studies. In 1991, • Natsuko Tsujimura: “Mimetic Verbs as Contextuals”; he was awarded the title of Distinguished • Stuart Davis: “Francis Lieber and the Term ‘Holophrastic’ as Applied to the Professor emeritus of anthropology, of Indian Languages of America”; linguistics, of semiotics, and of Central • Kyoko Nagao, Byung-Jin Lim, and Ken de Jong: “Phonology and Orthography Eurasian studies. Sebeok was the recipient in Lexical Access: A Case Study of Korean Perception of Syllable Affiliations and of many honors, including five honorary Voicing Contrasts of English Stops”; doctorates, the Distinguished Service • Ken de Jong, Kyoko Okamura, and Byung-Jin Lim: “The Phonetics of Award of the American Anthropological Resyllabification in English and Arabic Speech”; Association, IU’s President’s Medal of • Tiffany Kershner: “Dissociativity in Chisukwa Future Expressions”; and Excellence, Honorary Membership in the • David Boe: “Carnap and the Development of Linguistic Empiricism.” Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Domus Hungarica Scientiarum (Artium You’re invited! Prize) from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The IU Linguistics Department will host an Alumni Sebeok possessed an insatiable intellec- Reception at the 2003 LSA Winter Meeting in Atlanta. tual curiosity and an astounding working You are invited to drop by and meet old friends (and capacity. He was extremely prolific, make new ones). We look forward to seeing you there! producing over his career more than 600 Friday, Jan. 3, 2003 books and articles on an astoundingly 6–7:30 p.m. diverse range of topics. Sebeok once Walton Room, Hilton Atlanta; Atlanta, Ga. described himself as an academic Apis 2 Faculty news

ulie Auger is conducting ongoing Linguistic Typology and “Dissociativity in the Journal of East Asian Linguistics. Davis Jresearch on her project “Morpho- Tense, Realis, and Location in Chindali also presented papers at meetings of the syntactic Variation in Picard,” with Verbs” in Journal of African Languages and American Dialect Society and the North continued support from the NSF. She has Linguistics. Also, he has initiated a new American Association for the History of the published “A Constraint-based Analysis of series of professionalization workshops for Language Sciences. Intraspeaker Variation: Vocalic Epenthesis graduate students, which feature faculty Ken de Jong has been developing in Vimeu Picard” with Jeffrey Steele in who share their expertise on topics such as various threads of his research into how Current Issues in Linguistic Theory: Selected grantsmanship, publishing, getting tenure, syllable structure affects speech production Papers from the XXIXth Linguistic Sympo- and applying for jobs. and how it is perceived by listeners with sium on the Romance Languages. Auger’s During the past year Stuart Davis different language experience. Most recent other recent publications include “French presented papers at the Second North results were presented at the 142nd and Immersion in Montreal: Pedagogical Norm American Phonology Conference held in 143rd meetings of the Acoustical Society of and Functional Competence” and “The Montreal and at the 10th Manchester America. Various portions of the data are Development of a Literary Standard: The Phonology Meeting in Manchester, written up in four technical reports, two of Case of Picard in Vimeu-Ponthieu, France.” England. Davis also gave a talk at the Graz which are available online at the IULC’s Auger was an invited lecturer at Stanford Reduplication Conference in Austria. He new Online Working Papers site. Additional University’s Phonology Workshop, where gave an invited phonology talk (with Isao aspects of this research will also be pre- she presented, “Variable Vowel Epenthesis Ueda) on mora augmentation at the sented at the 2003 LSA convention. in Picard.” She also presented conference conference on Linguistics and Phonetics at Continued work with IU alumna Bushra papers titled “Progressive and Regressive Meikai University in Japan and gave an Zawaydeh, PhD’99, on Arabic emphatic Assimilation in Picard” and “Progressive invited talk on Optimality Theory at consonants, also appears in the Linguistics and Regressive Picard Nasal Assimilation” Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Working Papers. He has also been involved with Brian José. Ind. His article, co-authored with Karen in various teaching projects, Robert Botne presented “Specific vs. Baertsch, titled “Turkic C + /l/(uster) reimplementing computational labs and Non-Specific Infinitives in Lusaamia” at the Phonology,” has appeared in Chicago developing new ways of introducing 33rd Annual Conference on African Linguistic Society 37 and his article with Isao phonological patterns via phonetic acoustic Linguistics at Ohio University. Botne has Ueda titled “Mora Augmentation in representations in L303. had two articles accepted for publication: Shizuoka Japanese” has appeared in A paper by Laurent Dekydtspotter “Towards a Typology of ACHIEVEMENT Japanese/Korean Linguistics 10. Davis was (French and Italian), Rex Sprouse Verbs: A Crosslinguistic Study of DIE” in recently appointed to the editorial board of (continued on page 4)

From the chair newsletter. You can read about publications, hope very much that our alumni will keep grants and awards received (both externally in touch and continue to supply us with (continued from page 1) and within IU), and invitations to lecture at personal and professional news. Feedback expect to teach courses in Hausa, Bambara, major national and international confer- on the newsletter, or on any of our Twi, Zulu, and Swahili. ences. It has been a very busy time! programs, is also greatly appreciated. I am We are again offering six different I congratulate both Associate Professor best reached via e-mail, at franks@ undergraduate “Topics” courses this Ken de Jong and Distinguished Professor indiana.edu. I also thank everyone who has academic year, all at maximum enrollments: Paul Newman on their promotions and contributed to the Householder Fund or to Botne’s Indiana Dialects, Davis’s Ebonics, refer you to the article on page 1 about the Linguistics Enrichment Fund. These Obeng’s Language and Politics, Port’s these two talented and deserving scholars. I funds are maintained by the IU Founda- Language and Religion, Auger’s Language am also pleased to report the promotion of tion, and contributions are fully tax and Gender, and Newman’s Language and departmental administrative assistant Ann deductible; for Indiana residents this Freedom of Speech in the United States (as Baker from clerical to professional rank. amount can even be doubled on state an Honors College course). These popular During 2002 we have sponsored a broad returns. The Householder Fund is used courses, as well as L103 Introduction to the range of colloquia presented both by IU specifically to support student research, and Study of Language, and L303 Introduction faculty and visitors. These include Vitaly the Linguistics Enrichment Fund is used for to Linguistic Analysis, have helped to Shevoroshkin (University of Michigan), a wide variety of activities, such as support- attract increasing numbers of majors to the Marshall Lewis (IU), David Sandile ing departmental social events, alumni department. We largely have the efforts of Gxilishe (University of Cape Town), events, and special research projects. If you undergraduate adviser Ken de Jong to Satoshi Tomioka (University of Delaware), would like to contribute to either fund, thank for this (see column on page 7). Ken, Richard Hogg (University of Manchester), please contact Ann Baker at Memorial Hall who is stepping down this year to be Cedric Boeckx (University of Illinois), 322, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN replaced by Samuel Obeng, has drawn Damir C´avar (IU), Janet Fodor (CUNY), 47405; phone (812) 855-6459; or e-mail many students to the discipline of linguis- John McWhorter (Berkeley), John [email protected]. Checks should be tics through his stimulating teaching of McCarthy (University of Massachusetts), made payable to the Indiana University L303. and Janet DeCesaris (Universitat Pompeu Foundation. We are proud of the many accomplish- Fabra). — Steven Franks ments of our graduate students and faculty. In closing, I thank everyone who has [email protected] Their diverse activities are reported in this contributed information to this newsletter. I 3 Faculty news Visiting scholars (continued from page 3) Nakahisa Aramaki is a visiting scholar from Japan who is conducting research with (Germanic), and graduate student Kim- the assistance of Associate Professor Yoshihisa Kitagawa. berly Swanson, “Reflexes of the Mental Damir C´avar is a visiting assistant professor at the Department of Linguistics, Architecture in Second-Language Acquisi- conducting research and teaching in the area of computational linguistics. He tion: The Interpretation of Discontinuous received his PhD from the University of Potsdam in 1999. His research contributes Combien Extractions in English-French to the fields of language-related cognitive science, theoretical, psycho- and computa- Interlanguage,” recently appeared in tional linguistics. Most recently, C´avar worked on the “Verbmobil” project (Univer- Language Acquisition. sity of Hamburg, Technical University of Berlin), on the development of a speech- The recently published Proceedings of the to-speech machine translation system, on the corpus linguistics project “Digital Boston University Conference on Language Dictionary of the 20th-Century German Language” at the Academy of Science in Development included Dan Dinnsen’s Berlin, and on several textmining and information retrieval projects. His research plenary address titled “A Reconsideration of focus lies in the automatic acquisition of semantic and linguistic information from Children’s Underlying Representations.” unstructured texts, related to textmining and machine learning, as well as to knowl- Dinnsen also gave one of the invited edge representation and the Semantic Web. papers, “On the Composition and Treat- Visiting scholar Jai-Hyoung Cho is from Korea and is working closely with ment of Children’s Error Patterns,” at the Yoshihisa Kitagawa. GLOW Workshop on Phonological Also working with Kitagawa is Korean visiting scholar Eun-Kyoung Lim. Acquisition in Utrecht in April. Mi-Hui Cho is a visiting scholar from Korea who is conducting linguistic Steven Franks, together with Ron research in phonology with the assistance of Professor Stuart Davis. Feldstein (Slavics), published a reference grammar of Polish in Lincom Europa’s Languages of the World series. Together developed under a grant to the Cognitive and Political Independence with Linguistic with Feldstein and Laura Janda, Franks co- Science Program. Servitude: The Politics About Languages in the edited the book Where One’s Tongue Rules Yoshihisa Kitagawa’s paper “Prosody Developing World. With Beverly Stoeltje Well: A Festschrift for Charles E. Townsend. and Wh-questions,” with PhD candidate (anthropology), Obeng published Franks held a short-term guest professor- Masanori Deguchi appeared in NELS 32. “Women’s Voices in Akan Juridical ship at the English department at Warsaw The two also presented an extended version Discourse” in Africa Today. He presented University, where he taught a course on of this paper titled “Prosody and Syntax” at “Doing Politics in the Colonial Tongue (the syntax and made a variety of presentations; GLOW — Asia 2002, in Taiwan. Kitagawa English Language): Comparison and he also presented “What’s that?” in May at also presented “Default Prosody Explains Contrast Establishment in Ghanaian Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissen- the Neglected Syntactic Analyses in Political Discourse” at the International schaft in Berlin, Warsaw University, Poznan´ Japanese” (co-authored with Janet Dean Associate of World Englishes Meeting. He University, and Wroc law University. In Fodor) at the 12th Japanese/Korean also presented “Intertextuality and December, at the annual meeting of the Linguistics Conference. He received a Evidentiality in Ghanaian Political Dis- American Association of Teachers of Slavic Faculty Research Incentive Fund grant and course” and “Negation in Nzema” at the and East European Languages, he pre- College of Arts and Sciences Grant-in-Aid 33rd Annual Conference of African sented “Case Marking on Objects of for his project on the interaction of prosody, Linguistics. Infinitives in Lithuanian,” together with syntax, and information structure. He also Robert Port wrote an article for the James Lavine. Franks published “The gave an invited talk titled “Where Does MacMillan Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science Internal Structure of Slavic NPs, with Ungrammaticality Come from in Japanese on “The Dynamical Systems Hypothesis in Special Reference to Bulgarian” in Genera- Syntax?” at the University of Arizona. Cognitive Science.” It will appear in the tive Linguistics in Poland: Syntax and This spring, Paul Newman was one of online and hardcopy encyclopedia in 2003. Morphosyntax, “The Origin of Prepositions” only four persons in the IU system to be Port was an invited speaker at the Temporal (co-authored with Michael Yadroff, named Distinguished Professor (see article Integration in Speech Processing conference PhD’99) in Current Issues in Formal Slavic on page 1). His major publication this year in Aix-en-Provence, where he presented Linguistics, and “Phonology-Syntax was the book Chadic and Hausa Linguistics: “Implications of Rhythmic Speech for Interactions in South Slavic” (co-authored Selected Papers of Paul Newman, with Theories of Speech Timing.” With Hugo with Zˇ. Bosˇkovic´) in Balkanistica 15. Commentaries, edited by Philip J. Jaggar Quené, visiting scholar from the University Franks continues to serve as editor-in-chief and H. Ekkehard Wolff. Talks he gave this of Utrecht, he presented a poster at the of the Journal of Slavic Linguistics and was year include one at Stanford, “Teeth and Acoustical Society of America on “Stress appointed to the editorial boards of Tongues; Walking and Talking: Greenberg’s Shift in Rhythmical Speech.” They also Zeitschrift für Slawistik and Studies in Polish Approach to Language, Race, and Culture,” presented another paper at CLS titled Linguistics. and two in London, “What We Know and “Rhythmical Factors in Stress Shift.” Recently, Michael Gasser presented What We Wished We Knew About Chadic” Natsuko Tsujimura (East Asian papers at CLS and at the first Annual and “The Endangered Languages Issue: A languages and cultures) was invited to the Summer Interdisciplinary Conference. He West African Perspective.” In addition, he Lexicon Workshop at the Linguistics and gave invited lectures at the third Workshop spoke on WFIU radio about “Age Discrimi- Phonetics Conference held at Meikai on Mechanisms of Brain and Mind in nation at IU.” University in Chiba, Japan, where she Tateshina, Japan, and at Southern Illinois Samuel Obeng, recipient of the IU at- presented a paper titled “Lexical Concep- University. Gasser is working on the second large Trustees’ Teaching Award, co- tual Structure and Telicity: A View from edition of his online linguistics textbook, authored two books with Beverly Hart- Event Cancellation in Japanese.” Tsujimura How Language Works, to be released in ford: Surviving Through Obliqueness: published “A Constructional Approach to December. It will include new trial software Language of Politics in Emerging Democracies (continued on page 5) 4 Student news

skra Iskrova, with Albert Valdman, Papers in Linguistics series titled Speech Ipresented “An Optimality Theoretic Prosody and Timing: Dynamic Aspects of McGarrity earns Account of Nasality in Haitian Creole” at Speech. The book contains 11 papers by IU the LSA’s annual meeting in San Francisco. faculty, students, and recent alumni in fellowship Brian José, with Julie Auger, presented phonetics dealing with speech timing and “Progressive and Regressive Assimilation in prosody. It can be purchased from the IU Laura McGarrity was awarded a Picard,” at the Linguistic Symposium on Linguistics Club. 2002–03 College of Arts and Romance Languages. José also presented a Sciences Dissertation Year Research poster on “They/There and Was/Were Honors and awards Fellowship. These highly competitive fellowships Variation in Small-Town Kentuckiana” at Vicki Anderson and Brian José received enable advanced New Ways of Analyzing Variation 31. Graduate Student Travel Grants to present students to Byung-jin Lim published “Local and at NWAV at Stanford. engage in Global Patterns of Compensation in Cynthia Clopper received the first focused work Korean” in Japanese/Korean Linguistics and, annual Householder Award for the leading to the along with Namhee Kim and Han-Yong outstanding graduate paper in linguistics. completion of Park, presented “Vowel Length Distinction Iskra Iskrova received the Peter their disserta- and Lexical Ambiguity Resolution in Cannings Memorial Prize for academic tions and are Korean” at the Western Conference on excellence in the field of French linguistics. awarded on the Linguistics. Nam Hee Kim received scholarships basis of demonstrated academic Laura McGarrity, with Robert Botne, from Rotary International and the Korean- excellence, proposed use of fellowship co-authored “Between Agreement and Case American Scholarship Foundation. funds, and potential for significant Marking in Lamnso,” published in Indiana FLAS fellowships were awarded to research contributions. McGarrity’s University Working Papers in Linguistics. Joshua Lumsden (Romanian), Kelly Jo dissertation investigates the universal McGarrity also presented “On the Typologi- Trennepohl (Twi), Stephen Grimes and language specific linguistic cal Predictions of Fixed vs. Complementary (Hungarian), and Joanna Taylor (Swahili) principles that govern the location of Rankings of Stress Constraints” at the Texas for the 2002–03 academic year. secondary stress in the world’s Linguistics Society — Southwest Workshop Kyoko Nagao and Masanori Deguchi languages. McGarrity also received a on Optimality Theory Conference and received a Householder Research Award for graduate student travel grant. “Prosody-Driven Melody vs. Melody- their perception study of foreign sounds in Driven Prosody: A Stress Typology” at the second language acquisition. Ninth International Phonology Meeting, Han-Yong Park and Sahoko Ichikawa Vienna, Austria. received a Householder Research Award to Funded by a summer FLAS fellowship investigate the interaction between prosody Linguistics and Summer Travel Enhancement Grant, and semantic interpretation. Tristan Purvis carried out exploratory Elizabeth Peterson received a scholar- This newsletter is published by the Indiana research and language training in intermedi- ship from the Center for International University Alumni Association, in coopera- ate Dagbani and advanced Twi in Tamale Mobility. tion with the Department of Linguistics and the College of Arts and Sciences Alumni As- and Kumasi, Ghana. received the Charles Rose Wilkerson sociation, to encourage alumni interest in and Working with Professor Robert Port, Gaius Bolin Fellowship at Williams College support for Indiana University. For activities students Deborah Burleson and Caitlin in Williamstown, Mass., where she and membership information, call (800) 824- Dillon co-edited a volume in the Working continues work on her dissertation. 3044 or send e-mail to iualumni@ indiana.edu. Faculty news speaker at a symposium on francophony Department of Linguistics and Creole studies at the University of Chair ...... Steven Franks (continued from page 4) Regensburg, Germany. He delivered a Editor ...... Lisa Whited Stativity in Japanese” and “Japanese Enter/ lecture on dialect contact in Haitian Creole Exit Verbs Revisited: A Reply to Kita at the University of Toronto and opened College of Arts & Sciences (1999)” in Studies in Language. Addition- the Creole Month organized by the Dean ...... Kumble R. Subbaswamy ally, a revised version of the paper she Montreal Haitian Diaspora community Executive Director of Development presented with graduate student Caitlin with a lecture on issues in the standardiza- & Alumni Programs ...... Tom Herbert Dillon at the University of Durham, “L1 tion of Haitian Creole. Valdman served as IU Alumni Association Transfer in the Acquisition of Argument guest editor for an issue of the journal President/CEO ...... Ken Beckley Structure,” appeared in Durham Working Études Créoles and authored an article on the Assistant Alumni Papers in Linguistics 8. difference between creolization and normal Director ...... Nicki Bland Albert Valdman was honored by former diachronic language change, which was Editor for Constituent doctoral students, IU colleagues, and included in the publication. A CD-ROM, Periodicals ...... Julie Dales external leading specialists in applied “Discovering Cajun French Through the Editorial Assistant ...... Brook Northcutt linguistics by the presentation of a Spoken Word,” the first product of a THE festschrift volume edited by Kathleen collaborative NEH-supported project on Bardovi-Harlig, Sue Gass, Sally Magnan, Louisiana Cajun French, directed by C OLLEGE and Joel Walz. Valdman was the keynote Valdman, was also released in November. 5 Department welcomes new linguistics graduate students

hora Birna Asgeirsdottir Tcomes from the small town of Hafnarfjordur, Iceland. The focus of her linguistic research is anthropological, but she is also interested in syntax and phonol- ogy. Outside linguistics, Asgeirsdottir’s main interest is traveling; she has been to more than 20 countries, so far. Ashley Farris, from Richmond, Ky., received her undergraduate degree in English with minors in French and philosophy. Her interests include socio- linguistics and French linguistics. Farris enjoys buying shoes, eating ice cream, and reading whatever books come her way. Toshikazu Ikuta is interested in syntax and semantics, as well as phonology. A New graduate students in the department are, from left, Sun-Hwa Jang, Thora Birna graduate from International Christian Asgeirsdottir, Ock-Hwan Kim, Joanna Taylor, Toshikazu Ikuta, Scott Lamanna, Lisa Whited, University, Tokyo, with a bachelor’s degree Eric Oglesbee, Ashley Farris, Brian Riordan, Indrek Park, Erica LaVan, and Noah Silbert. in liberal arts, Ikuta likes to play soccer and the piano. Ock-Hwan Kim, a native of Korea, is languages. A native of Estonia, he enjoys From Seoul, Korea, Sun-Hwa Jang is interested in the syntax-phonology interface playing bagpipes and learning new lan- interested in interdisciplinary approaches to in East Asian languages. Kim enjoys guages. language, especially in the areas of playing baduk (traditional Oriental chess), Brian Riordan spent more than three sociolinguistics and cognitive science. She listening to modern jazz, and collecting jazz years in Japan during and following college. enjoys cooking and gardening. CDs and books of all kinds. His interests include computational Scott Lamanna’s interests include linguistics, cognitive science, Japanese bilingualism, language contact, regional linguistics, and bilingualism. Riordan variation, and change in English, Spanish, married Masako Hashikawa in late Septem- Degrees awarded and Arabic. He is from Winston-Salem, ber. PhDs awarded N.C., and enjoys theology, dancing, and Noah Silbert grew up in Bloomington, foreign travel. Ind. He received a bachelor’s degree in • Karen Sue Baertsch, “A n Originally from Chicago, Erica LaVan linguistics from IU in 1998 and an MA in Optimality Theoretic Approach to has a background in computer science and ESL from the University of Hawaii in Syllable Structure: The Split Margin French. She is interested in artificial 2002. Currently pursuing a PhD, Silbert is Hierarchy” (Stuart Davis) intelligence, computational linguistics, and interested in speech perception, • Mompoloki Mmangaka Bagwasi, machine translation. LaVan is involved in psycholinguistics, and phonology. “A Historical Development of a many French activities on campus and Joanna Taylor is interested in the first Botswana Variety of English” (Samuel enjoys rock climbing. language acquisition of Bantu verbal Obeng and Beverly Hartford) Eric Oglesbee, from Nappanee, Ind., morphology. She is a Florida native who • Bernardo Gerardo Blanco, “The has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and also enjoys hand papermaking, beadwork, Role of Linguistic Input in Language Biblical literature. In addition to religiously and pestering her two pet turtles. Acquisition: A Listening Comprehen- following Indiana University basketball, his Lisa Whited is a California native whose sion-Based Study Considering the hobbies include camping, hiking, and interests include syntax, computational Input Limitations of the EFL Environ- playing basketball. In the field of linguistics, linguistics, pragmatics, and language ment” (Beverly Hartford) Oglesbee is fascinated by phonology. interaction. A Navy veteran, Whited was • Tiffany Lynne Kershner, “The Indrek Park is interested in comparative recently commissioned as an ensign in the Verb in Chisukwa: Aspect, Tense, and grammar, linguistic diversity, and Tibetan naval reserves. Time” (Robert Botne) MAs awarded Hafid Adnane, Jemima Anderson, Linguistics secretary wins Staff Merit Award Milan Bohacˇek, Khaled El Ghamry, The department congratulates administrative secretary Marilyn Estep for being Nicole Evans, Theo Galoozis, Abdul honored with a Staff Merit Award. These awards are highly Ghaffar Khogali, Laura Knudsen, competitive (two support staff on the entire Bloomington Hye-Ryoung Kwon, Mayumi campus are so honored each year), so that only the most Miyamoto, Seth Ofori, Kyoko deserving and dedicated employees are selected. Since Marilyn Okamura, Tristan Purvis, Roseann began in 1998, faculty and staff have come to appreciate Vondrasek, and Joachim Wermter greatly her reliability, versatility, and resourcefulness. We are BAs awarded very proud to have such an exemplary and dedicated employee Alycia Edgeworth, Michael Marlo, in our office. There will be a formal award ceremony on Dec. Kara Raisley, and Corey Yoquelet 17 to which friends of Marilyn are welcome.

6 Letter from the director of graduate studies Alumni news his year the role of director of graduate studies for the Department of Linguistics is in Ttransition. Professor Robert Botne will replace me beginning January 2003. I have served as the DGS since 1998 and will soon be taking a sabbatical leave. Before 1960 What I have enjoyed most about being the DGS is the daily interaction I have with Dell H. Hymes, MA’53, PhD’55, had his students. As a consequence, I have gotten to know almost all of the graduate students in second edition of Reinventing Anthropology the department. It is this aspect that I will miss the most about not being the DGS. On a published by the University of Michigan daily basis, the job of DGS involves answering numerous queries from both prospective Press in 1998. He lives in Charlottesville, and current students regarding all aspects of the departmental graduate programs. Many of Va . these questions are e-mailed to the departmental staff and forwarded to the DGS. Ques- Marjorie E. Davis, MA’54, writes to say tions range from “Does ASL count for the MA language requirement?” (it does) to that she is still in linguistics at 89 years old. questions regarding taking summer courses at other universities for departmental credit. She has written for ethnic minority groups Although it is hard to pinpoint any specific accomplishment during my time as the DGS so they can learn how to write songs and that I alone can be credited with, significant changes have been achieved through the hymns in their native language. She lives in conjoined efforts of the departmental chair, staff, faculty, and students. One major accom- Huntington Beach, Calif. plishment during this period was the development of the MA track in computational linguistics. A more mundane accomplishment was the updating of the departmental 1980s graduate student handbook. Another area that we can be proud of is the visibility of our Janet DeCesaris, MA’81, PhD’88, was graduate students at various conferences. Over the past several years, we have had a honored by the Department of Spanish and significant presence not only at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Portuguese this fall with the Seventh annual but also at some of the major conferences in various subfields, such as New Ways of Merle E. Simmons Distinguished Alumni Analyzing Variation, the African Linguistics Conference, the meetings of the Acoustical Award. DeCesaris is professor of applied Society of America, and the North American Conference on Phonology. linguistics and translation at Universitat As a final advising issue, I am aware that some of our graduate students are planning to Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. attend the LSA Summer Linguistic Institute being held during summer 2003 at Michigan Yukie Ueno, MA’84, writes, “I’m now at State University. Personally, I strongly recommend attending such an institute. A terrific Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, as a visiting range of classes can be seen on the institute Web site at http://lsa2003.lin.msu.edu/. The professor teaching Japanese culture.” Web site also has application forms. There are several different ways that you can apply. Janet C. Bugher, BA’87, was named Indiana University and Michigan State University are both CIC schools. If you are president of the Ad Club of Indianapolis, a considered an in-state student by IU or if you have a tuition waiver that covers summer nonprofit organization promoting ethical, 2003, it is to your (financial) benefit to fill out the CIC application. If you are an out-of- truthful, and creative advertising. She lives state student (including international students) and you are planning to take more in Indianapolis. that two credit hours at the institute, it is to your benefit to fill out the regular Gail A. Glentzer, BA’88, MA’93, taught application to the institute and then transfer the credit hours to IU at the end of English conversation at Niijima Gakuen, a the summer (keeping in mind that the maximum limit of transfer credit is junior high school in Japan, from 1989 to 8 credits for an MA student and 30 credits for a PhD student). Anyone who 1992; she then moved to Paris to study plans to attend the summer institute should also submit an application for an French for six months. She is now the ESL Institute Fellowship, which is available from the above Web site. I will director at the Indiana Institute of Technol- continue to give advice to anyone who wants to attend but is not sure ogy and lives in Fort Wayne, Ind. which is the best way to apply. — Stuart Davis 1990s From the undergraduate advisers Don Salting, MA’90, PhD’98, accepted a tenure-track position in the English After an exceptionally large graduating linguistic research. Along this line, we note department at North Dakota State Univer- class, we wondered a bit if our undergradu- several of our recent students in various sity in Fargo. ate program would experience some graduate programs around the country, at Mary Ellen Scullen, MA’90, PhD’93, shrinkage. This, however, has not been the Berkeley, Los Angeles, and Buffalo. Also, was granted tenure in the French depart- case. We did have a very small class of ’02; we have had the enjoyment of a couple of ment at the University of Maryland. however, our courses have been as full as students who have graduated from IU, only Sue Brown, MA’91, PhD’96, won the ever, and the number of declared majors is to return a while later to pursue graduate American Association of Teachers of Slavic up to 24. One of the reasons for this is the degrees. Mayumi (Miyake) Miyamoto just and East European Languages’ “President’s increasing number of first- and second-year finished her MA last spring, and Noah Award for the Best Work of Scholarship in students who become interested in linguis- Silbert started working on a PhD in Slavic Linguistics” for her monograph The tics, some of them even arriving at IU with linguistics and cognitive science this fall. It Syntax of Negation in Russian: A Minimalist the intention of studying linguistics. Many is good to have a chance to continue Approach, a revision of her dissertation, faculty have remarked informally that the working with our undergraduates. which was directed by Steven Franks. quality of their students is very impressive. This year the undergraduate program is Jessica Barlow, BA’92, MA’94, PhD’97, We continue to hear good things from in transition, with Sam Obeng taking over has been awarded a three-year grant from our graduates as they move on from here. Ken de Jong’s role as undergraduate adviser. NIH to continue her research on bilingual While we are always glad to see our However, if you have particular questions phonological development. Barlow also students doing well after graduation, there about the undergraduate program, you can served as the guest editor for a special two- is, of course, a particular satisfaction in contact either Ken, at [email protected], volume clinical forum on the application of seeing our students follow in our footsteps or Sam, at [email protected]. linguistic theory to phonological acquisition and dedicate large portions of their lives to — Ken de Jong & Samuel Obeng (continued on back cover)

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○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ Jin-young Tak, MA’92, PhD’97, ○○○○○○○○○○ accepted a permanent position in the English department at Sejong University in Please print in as much of the following Seoul, Korea. What’s new information as you wish. Its purpose, in addition Yongsung Lee, PhD’93, is dean of the to providing us with your class note, is to keep School of European and American Studies with you? IU’s alumni records accurate and up to date. at Pusan University of Foreign Studies in Pusan, Korea. Publication carrying this form: Linguistics Alumni Newsletter Date ______Elisabeth G. Baker, MA’94, is involved with a group of young adults in the Name ______International Evangelical Church of Preferred Name ______Finland. They sent eight delegates to an orphanage in St. Petersburg, Russia, to help Last name while at IU ______IU Degree(s)/Yr(s) ______prepare the children for the winter. She Soc. Sec. # or Student ID # ______lives in Helsinki, Finland. Home address ______Phone ______David R. Boe, PhD’96, is a professor in the English department at Northern City ______State ______Zip ______Michigan University in Marquette, Mich. Business title ______Company/Institution ______Karen K. Meyer, MA’98, writes, “I spent the summer of 2001 teaching in Company address ______Phone ______Gorzow Wielkopolski, Poland. I still teach City ______State ______Zip ______ESL and Spanish at Mather High School in Chicago.” *E-mail ______*Home page URL ______Chin Wan Chung, PhD’99, accepted a *Please indicate clearly upper and lower case. permanent position in the English depart- ❍ ❍ ment at Chonbuk National University in Mailing address preference: Home Business Chonju, Korea. Spouse name ______Last name while at IU ______After spending a year in a postdoctoral position at Kanda University of Interna- IU Degree(s)/Yr(s) ______tional Studies in Japan, Ae-ryung Kim, Your news: ______MA’99, PhD’00, returned home to Korea to ______a teaching position in Kyungnam Univer- sity, where she is now an associate professor ______in the English education department. ______2000s ______Jong-Kyoo Kim, PhD’00, accepted a ______position in the Korean language depart- ment at Hangik University in Seoul, Korea. ______Karen Baertsch, PhD’02, received a ______postdoctoral traineeship from NIH to work with professors Gierut (speech and hearing) ______and Dinnsen on phonological acquisition. Please mail to the address above, or fax to (812) 855-8266. 8