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Volume 2, Issue 1 October, 2003

Letter from the Chair

As we head into the autumn We spent an especially busy 2003 quarter, I’m pleased to spring hosting an international report in the Chair’s column conference on on activities of the (SALT); sponsoring two major Department during the past Walker-Ames lecturers, Deborah Inside this issue: spring and summer. I hope Cameron and Ray Jackendoff; that it will reach our alumni, welcoming 150 alumni and Bender joins Department 2 supporters and community friends to our 40th anniversary associates and draw them to celebration; and honoring our 40th anniversary photos 3 stay in touch with us. We BA, MA, PhC and PhD recipi- This past year, Linguistics fac- were disappointed to receive ents, one of whom was the ulty have been recognized na- Breath of Life workshop 6 very little feedback from the Dean’s Medalist for the Hu- tionally and internationally for SALT 13 photos 7 two issues mailed in August, manities. Another notable point their research and professional 2002 and March, 2003. We this year is that the $500,000 service. All faculty members Student news 7 would like to get all of your endowed professorship by How- gave papers at institutions of email addresses to keep you ard and Frances Nostrand to the note in Europe, Asia and the posted with electronic an- Department of Linguistics has Americas during this time. Pro- nouncements. Please take a passed the $250,000 threshold fessor Newmeyer—in addition to moment to send your email and Fritz Newmeyer has been publishing numerous articles and address to phoneme@u. named Nostrand Professor. Let giving a dozen invited talks in washington.edu and to include me detail some of these high- four countries—finished his term Editor’s note the addresses of other friends lights. as President of the Linguistic We want to express our of Linguistics. See Letter, p. 2 appreciation to Paula Johnson for her creative talent and the many hours of labor she do- Department receives gifts nated to development of the newsletter and to B AUER DONATION S MITH BEQUEST editing its first two issues. We want to thank Lois and Alan Bauer for gener- The Department gratefully acknowledges a $3,000 We wish her all the best ously donating one hundred shares of Microsoft bequest from Helen Strangeland Smith, who died in as she passes on the edi- stock to the departments of Linguistics and Ger- Enumclaw, WA on July 14, 2003 at the age of 95. torship in order to pursue manics. Linguistics has directed its half, $1,200, Mrs. Smith was born in Seattle on April 16, 1908 other endeavors. into a symposium series beginning this fall (see and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University Symposium, p. 4) and into faculty development. of Washington in 1929, where she was a member of Jim Armagost The symposium series brings together research in Alpha Phi sorority. She later pursued graduate Editor computational linguistics from Germanics, Lin- study at the University of Berlin and upon her return guistics and Microsoft. Alums from the two de- married Rufus Clark Smith in Sacramento, CA in partments currently employed at Microsoft— 1938. Michael Gamon, James Lyle and Britta Simon— She resided in Enumclaw for over 50 years and was See Bauer, p. 4 See Smith, p. 4 P AGE 2 UW LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT

Letter, from p. 1 offering an evening course on Perl pro- tion) to study language acquisition and use gramming. from several theoretical perspectives. The Society of America. Professor Brame pub- students were also involved in the John lished two co-authored books and one criti- Our students, both undergraduate and Stanford International School, whose sup- cal edition, and Professor Hargus—who graduate, are of very high caliber, as evi- port contributed to the seminar. gave the Belcourt Lecture at the University denced by awards they have received. Six of Manitoba—co-edited and contributed to of the 35 graduates (17%) of this year’s Spring was quite busy. In May 2003, the a volume on Athabaskan Prosody. Overall BAs were nominated as Dean’s medalists, Department sponsored the Semantics and the ten faculty produced 14 articles in refe- while 16 (46%) were invited to join Phi Linguistic Theory Conference organized by reed journals and 24 chapters in collections. Beta Kappa. Undergraduate Juliane Gust Professor Ogihara, who raised over $10,000 Professor Kaisse continues her work as the was one of only four Dean’s Medalists in from the Graduate School, the Simpson principal editor of Phonology, the flagship the College of Arts & Sciences. The superi- Center, the College of Arts & Sciences, and publication in her field. ority of our graduate students was shown in the departments of Linguistics, Philosophy several awards. Susannah Levi won an and Computer Science. The SALT confer- We made substantial progress in the devel- AAUW year-long award, while seven other ence attracted presenters from the US and opment of Computational Linguistics, hir- grad students won summer and year-long several countries in Europe and Asia. Our ing Emily Bender (PhD Stanford Univer- FLAS awards. sponsorship of two Walker-Ames lectur- sity) to fill the position in 2003-2004 while ers—as primary host to Ray Jackendoff we search the permanent position. John Interdisciplinary activity included involve- () who delivered the Goldsmith, who had accepted the computa- ment with a number of other departments Walker-Ames lecture of May 20, 2003 and tional position last year, returned to the and the Simpson Center for the Humanities. secondary host to Deborah Cameron, whose University of Chicago in Winter 2002 and We maintain a good deal of interaction with lecture was April 8, 2003—brought col- by February decided that—for a variety of the Romance Department where a number laboration with English, Communications, reasons—he would decline our offer and of our graduate students teach Spanish, Women’s Studies, CSE, EE, Anthropology, instead remain in Chicago. The College French and Italian. Next year, as in many Music, Psychology and the Simpson Center. restored the position to the Department as a years past, two of our graduate students will We continue our traditional professional / temporary appointment for 2003-2004, and be Assistant to the Coordinator in Seattle social functions of the weekly colloquium, we were quite fortunate in attracting Dr. and in the Cadiz program. We taught Autumn dinner and Spring Graduate Cele- Bender. She is poised to move forward on courses cross-listed with Computer Science, bration in the Faculty Club for students the many initiatives that have been started Psychology, and Anthropology. In Winter earning the BA, MA or PhD in our pro- this year to create the new computational 2003 I taught an interdisciplinary graduate grams. Alumni, Friends of Linguistics, and linguistics program. We are establishing seminar on second language acquisition and members of the Advisory Board are always ties to UW Outreach to create a stand-alone bilingualism at the Simpson Center for the welcome at these events. The Department’s MA that is financially self-sustaining, and Humanities. The Humanities course 40th Anniversary celebration (June 5-7, we continue to foster relations with Com- brought together faculty and graduate stu- 2003) attracted about 150 participants to a puter Science, Electrical Engineering and dents from language-related programs Faculty Club reception, a Humanities Cen- Microsoft. Next year, in addition to Dr. across campus (Linguistics, English, Asian, ter series of talks by returning alumni, a Bender’s computational courses, we are Scandinavian, SPHSC, College of Educa- keynote address and a dinner for 100 at my home. The Department continues to support main- tenance of endangered languages. We were bender Joins department able again to offer the course on this topic We want to welcome Professor Emily M. Bender as she joins the Department this year taught by one of our graduates, Dr. Alice on a temporary appointment while a search is underway for a permanent hire in compu- Taff, who works on Alaskan indigenous tational linguistics. Emily received her PhD in Linguistics from Stanford University in languages. Dr. Taff and Professor Wright 2000. She has taught at UC Berkeley and Stanford and worked as a grammar engineer also gained grant support from the Univer- at YY Technologies before coming to the UW in Fall, 2003. Her research and teaching sity of London to record a range of sponta- interests include computational linguistics neous speech of Alaskan endangered lan- (particularly grammar engineering and natural guages. Finally, Dr. Taff organized and language processing), syntax, and sociolinguistics. engaged departmental support for a Breath Her language interests include English (of many of Life no-fee workshop held in September. varieties), French, Japanese, Mandarin, Malaya- She garnered monetary and in kind support lam and ASL. Emily is co-author (with Ivan Sag from the University, as well as several days and Thomas Wasow) of Syntactic theory: A for- of volunteer time from faculty members and mal introduction (CSLI Publications, 2003). Cur- alumni who are experts in language preser- rently she is working on adapting deep processing vation. NLP tools to create technology to support ESL Please stay in touch and help us make sure applications and on building a ‘Grammar Matrix’ that your Linguistics friends are receiving — a toolkit to jump-start the development of the newsletter too. broad-coverage precision implemented grammars for diverse languages. Additional information can be found at Emily’s webpage: http://faculty. Julia Herschensohn washington.edu/ebender/ . V OLUME 2, ISSUE 1 P AGE 3

40th anniversary photos

In early June about 150 faculty, students, alums and friends gathered for three days of activities in celebra- tion of the Department’s 40th anniversary. An opening reception included Jim Hoard (PhD ‘63) filling in with impromptu jazz when the pianist engaged to perform failed to appear. Presentations by alums Thomas Hess (PhD ‘67), Dawn Bates (PhD ‘88), Tatsuya Suzuki (PhD ‘88), Simin Karimi (PhD ‘89), Pascual Masullo (PhD ‘92) and Randall Gess (PhD ‘96) attracted an overflow audience and held their attention despite the heat. In his keynote address Fritz Newmeyer was not optimistic on the question “Could language be perfect?” Participants enjoyed a buffet dinner at Julia and Michael Herschen- sohn’s after which some attended an Orchestra Seat- tle/Seattle Chamber Singers concert. The celebration ended with informal socializing and sightseeing. Many thanks to Hiroshi Yoshiba for the photos. Contact the Chair ([email protected]) to order uncropped full color copies of these and other photos taken at the reception and the Herschensohns’ dinner. P AGE 4 UW LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT

SYMPOSIUM SERIES BAUER, from p. 1 SMITH, from p. 1 and fellow employee Robin Lombard very prominent in community civic and LAUNCHED planned the series that will treat such topics cultural affairs. She was an active sup- This fall sees the inauguration of The Lin- as machine translation, speech recognition porter of the Enumclaw library and presi- guistic Symposium, a joint venture of Lin- and parsing. In addition to the obvious dent of the Library Board, and she and her guistics, Germanics and Microsoft. Four benefits of this collaborative effort, we feel husband were founders of the Glacier Glid- Microsoft linguists—UW alums Michael that it will begin a significant tradition for ers folk dance group. She served as a mem- Gamon and James Lyle (Linguistics) and our developing computational linguistics ber of the Board of Green River Commu- Britta Simon (Germanics), along with program. nity College for six years and as its chair in Robin Lombard (PhD ‘97, University of The Bauers’ gift has also helped faculty 1975-76. She was an active promoter of the Texas-Arlington)—developed the sympo- gain new software skills. Sharon Hargus, arts at Green River, founded the Interurban sium series, which will deal with computa- one of our faculty members who specializes Center for the Arts and in 1983 received the tional and statistical linguistics and termi- in the phonology of indigenous languages, King County Arts Commission Arts Service nology. has taken a course in Photoshop thanks to Award. She was the founding President of A chief aim of the symposium is the estab- the gift. Sharon finds that she uses more the Green River Community College Foun- lishment of ongoing opportunities for con- and more graphics in teaching and research. dation. In 1985 she was designated a Dis- tact between academic and corporate lin- For example, in dictionaries that she writes, tinguished Volunteer by the Governor and guists. Organizers are planning for three to she includes scanned photos of cultural in 1987 the mayor of Enumclaw awarded four meetings per year, variously at UW items gleaned from anthropological sources her a certificate of achievement in recogni- and the Microsoft campus. Each will fea- (such as a diagram of a fish weir). She tion of her selection as a gold medalist for ture a minimum of one speaker from UW wanted to be able to touch up scanned im- the Council for Advancement and Support and one from Microsoft, with a following ages and determine which graphic formats of Education (CASE) Volunteer of the Year reception providing an atmosphere suitable are best for which purposes, among other program. for networking, discussion of current trends functions. in the industry and demonstration of tech- nology developed in academic and business environments. Donations to the Department such as the Bauers’ and Mrs. Smith’s are extremely The anticipated mutual benefits of collabo- important at this time of diminishing state resources. We especially lack support rative endeavors of this type are especially for faculty travel and research help, so we consider ourselves fortunate to have significant and welcome as Linguistics the option of using gifts in this way. We want to stress that every donation, begins its new program in computational whether large or small, contributes to the support of the Department’s activities linguistics. and is sincerely appreciated. Please consider becoming a Friend of Linguistics by returning your gift in the enclosed postage paid envelope—or see the back page for online giving.

How many linguistics programs are there in the US? About 60 PhD, 95 MA and 100 BA programs … and our De- DEPARTMENT AND to fund the research of a professor of Lin- partment is one of the oldest. guistics while furthering the vision of the COMMUNITY Nostrands. The donation is to be completed The Department is committed to mutually over five years by the Nostrands, who have beneficial relations with the community. already made a significant gift of over This commitment has spurred a major effort $300,000. Donations to the Nostrand Pro- Linguistic department fessorship totaled $112,040 last year. contact information to contact alumni, donors and the general public. In addition to other forms of inter- As part of the outreach effort the Linguis- Department of Linguistics action, it is hoped that wider appreciation of tics Advisory Board collaborated on imple- Box 354340 our role in research, teaching and commu- menting the 40th anniversary celebration, Seattle WA 98195-4340 nity involvement will be reflected in an on initiating publication of the newsletter Phone 206-543-2046, Fax 206-685-7978 increased number of critically needed dona- and on updating our website tions. Email [email protected] (http://depts.washington.edu/lingweb/). This year’s $3,513 in donations to the Undergraduate advisor The Board also increased the Department’s Friends of Linguistics nearly matched the Kening Li, [email protected] visibility through community outreach and $4,140 given last year. These funds help us improved relations with local industry. Graduate advisor sponsor colloquia, pay for student travel to Member Michael Gamon has facilitated our Ellen Kaisse, [email protected] conferences and fund special events in the collaboration with Microsoft’s University Department Chair department. Relations, and he and fellow member James Julia Herschensohn A very significant long range fundraising Lyle have been involved in the planning of Administrator project is the Nostrand Endowed Professor- a 2003-04 symposium series on computa- Kathryn Speranza ship in language and cultural competence, a tional research (see Symposium Series $500,000 gift that will next year be initiated above). V OLUME 2, ISSUE 1 P AGE 5

NEWS FROM NEW MEMBERS Philip Harrison (PhD Applied Mathemat- ics, ‘88) is an Associate Technical Fellow at Boeing specializing in text analysis tech- JAPAN JOIN BOARD nology. He has developed core technology Hiroshi Yoshiba received his MA (‘78) and UW alums Nancy Ackles and Philip Harri- in parsing and lexicon management, and is PhD (‘83) in Linguistics at UW and was a son were recently named as the newest one of the principal developers of the Boe- Visiting Scholar in the Department from members of the Linguistics Advisory ing Simplified English Checker, a con- April to August, 2003. Following his return Board. trolled-language grammar checker used extensively by aerospace technical writers. to Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Nancy Ackles (PhD Linguistics, ‘97) His current research is in dialog systems where he is an Associate Professor of Eng- teaches English to speakers of other lan- and knowledge-based text classification for lish Linguistics, Hiroshi recalled some of guages, usually at the University of Wash- application to decision support, autonomous his recent experiences at UW, among them ington, and a course in syntax each year vehicles and security downgrading. Phil is joining the Phonetics meetings during for Seattle Pacific University. The first excited to be on the Board because it pre- Spring quarter and giving a Colloquium talk person to hire her to teach ESL (in Lewis- sents a great opportunity to develop syner- on the Japanese vowel hierarchy in May. In ton, Idaho) was Dale Sloat, the first person gies between the University and local com- his official capacity as a VIP instrumental to complete a doctorate in linguistics at panies that are active in computational lin- in establishing and maintaining the student UW. Nancy wrote her dissertation on the guistics. exchange program between UW and AGU, historical rise of the definite and indefinite he met 10 exchange students from AGU articles within a principles and parameters The Advisory Board currently consists of while here and interviewed 15 UW candi- approach, and has since written a textbook eleven members living on three continents. dates for this year’s exchange programs especially useful for ‘generation 1.5’ users Our European representative is Jeff Kallen, with AGU and Keio University. Finally, as of English who are preparing for university who lives in Ireland. Representing East a Husky alumnus, he thoroughly enjoyed education—it has a great explanation of Asia is Tatsuya Suzuki in Japan. All the attending the various activities of the 40th the use of definite and indefinite articles! Board members welcome your questions, anniversary and serving as unofficial re- She's looking forward to the new experi- suggestions and other feedback. You can cording photographer at both the opening ences of serving on the Board. email them at the addresses below. reception and the dinner at the Julia Herschensohn’s. We suspect we may see him around UW again one of these days. Advisory Board Members

Nancy Ackles Paula Johnson Are you an alum of the Depart- [email protected] [email protected] ment? Others would enjoy Jim Armagost Jeffrey Kallen [email protected] [email protected] knowing what you’re doing Michael Gamon James Lyle these days. Why not take a [email protected] [email protected] moment to return contact infor- Phil Harrison Tatsuya Suzuki mation? (See the form on the [email protected] [email protected] back page.) Mark Haslam Alice Taff [email protected] [email protected] Jim Hoard [email protected]

Nostrand professor named

The Department is very pleased to announce guistic Typology Summer School, and is now that the first recipient of the Howard and Fran- in Paris where he is a visiting scholar in the ces Nostrand Endowed Professorship will be Département d’Études Cognitives at the École Frederick J. Newmeyer. The Nostrands are Normale Supérieure. He will spend winter generously contributing $500,000 to further 2004 in Lyon at the Institut des Sciences Cog- their goals of developing cross-cultural under- nitives, and then the month of April in Leipzig standing and sensitivity as well as the study of at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary language. Anthropology. Professor Newmeyer is on sabbatical leave this We will celebrate the naming of the new Pro- year in Europe. He just completed a stay in fessorship at a reception a few months from Sardinia teaching at the Association for Lin- now. P AGE 6 UW LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT

Walker-Ames Breath of life D EBORAH CAMERON UW OPENS LINGUISTIC TREASURES TO TRIBES In April the departments of Speech Communica- Thirty-two participants from 12 Pacific Northwest Indian tribes gathered at UW in early Sep- tion, English and Linguistics sponsored a Walker- tember for a Breath of Life workshop designed to open the linguistic riches of the UW campus Ames Lectureship and assist in tribal efforts to revitalize indigenous languages. visit by Deborah Members of the Nooksack, Chehalis, Cowlitz, Lummi, Tulalip, Colville, Yakama, Samish, Cameron, Professor Muckleshoot, Squaxin Island, Lower Rogue and Unangax tribes and nations participated in the of Languages and no-fee workshop Sept. 8-12. They worked with a dozen linguists, primarily UW linguistics chair of the School of PhDs and graduate students, and library archivists to learn the basics of linguistics and explore Culture, Language material in their languages that is stored at UW. and Communication at the Institute of “All of the participants are working to revitalize imperiled languages, and some of these lan- Education, London guages have no fluent speakers today,” said Dr. Alice Taff, a research associate in UW’s Lin- University. A socio- guistics Department who coordinated the workshop. linguist and discourse analyst with particular interests in the study of “We call these ‘sleeping’ languages when there are no speakers. But you can wake up a lan- spoken language and issues of gender, Professor guage. For example Hebrew, in the context of daily conversation, was sleeping and is now quite Cameron is the author of many books including awake.” Language and sexuality (Cambridge UP, 2003), During the workshop, participants went to class in the mornings to learn linguistic skills that co-written with anthropologist Don Kulick. In would aid them in their work in the archives. In the afternoons, archivists helped them explore her lecture, titled “’Must Have Excellent Commu- and sort through the material in their language. To their archives search, each participant nication Skills’: Speaking, Skill and the Story of worked on a project related to revitalizing his or her language. an Ideology,” Dr. Cameron addressed the (post-) modern world’s preoccupation with “skill” in The UW archives and the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture contain a number of talking, noting that all kinds of problems are said collections with material devoted to the languages of native peoples of the Pacific Northwest. to be communication problems whose solution is The largest is the Melville Jacobs Collection. Jacobs was chairman of the Anthropology De- to communicate better. She discussed where this partment for nearly 30 years, and from 1926 to 1939 did extensive field research on Indian preoccupation came from , what lies behind it and language and music in Washington. His collection, which fills about 150 boxes, includes nu- whether it is reasonable or helpful—the story, she merous field recordings, many originally made on wax cylinders, as well as his notebooks and argued, of one of the most powerful ideologies of cards and material collected by some of his students. the last 50 years. The Northwest Linguistics Collection contains miscellaneous material including more than 800 R AY JACKENDOFF audiotapes and countless microfilm copies of linguistic field notes. The Ethnomusicology Col- The departments of Linguistics, Psychology and lection, housed in the School of Music, is one of the largest in the country and contains material Computer Science and Engineering sponsored related to the songs of Washington and Pacific Northwest Indians. The Metcalf Collection, Ray Jackendoff as Walker-Ames Lecturer in May. stored in the Burke Museum, contains 76 one-hour tapes, primarily of songs and music col- Prof. Jackendoff, one lected around Puget Sound in the 1950s. of the most respected semanticists in lin- “Many academics built their careers on the backs of linguistic data that Indian people gave guistics, has taught at them, so it behooves UW to turn around and open the archives to their descendents who are Brandeis University working to revitalize their language,” said Taff. since 1971. His re- She hopes the workshop will continue in future years and found strong support for this among search centers on the the participants. But even if it doesn’t, she thinks the weeklong program was successful in theory of meaning in showing participants how to use the archives, know the University and feel comfortable enough natural language, how to come back at their convenience in order to continue their work. it interacts with lin- guistic expression and how it interacts with The UW workshop was modeled and named after a similar program to revitalize Indian lan- thought. He is the author of numerous articles guages in California held every other year since 1996 at UC Berkeley. and books, most recently Foundations of lan- (Adapted from a press release by Joel Schwarz.) guage: Brain, meaning, grammar, evolution (Oxford UP, 2002). In his lecture, titled “Toward a of culture and society,” he explored what it takes for an individual to partici- pate in social categories and cultural institutions (i.e. “socially constructed” entities). He noted that the question has strong parallels with contem- Alice has said that teaching school in Alaska’s Pribilof Islands led to her interest in endangered porary linguistics, which investigates the cogni- languages and her pursuit of a doctorate in linguistics. She completed her degree at UW in tive structure required to be a speaker of a human 1999 with a dissertation titled Phonetics and phonology of Unangan (Eastern Aleut) intonation language (another “socially constructed” entity), (Alaska). Immediately after the completion of the Breath of Life workshop she returned north and argued that the two cases are consistent both to begin a new Unangam Tunuu documentation project (http://admin.urel.washington.edu/ with acknowledging cultural diversity and with a uweek/archives/issue/uweek_story_small.asp?id=1230&paget= section). At the same time she substantive universal cognitive framework that will be continuing her earlier revitalization work with speakers of the Athabaskan language underlies the ability to learn and function in one's Deg Xinag (http://www.adn.com/life/story/1994446p-2096145c.html). culture. V OLUME 2, ISSUE 1 P AGE 7

student News Sixteen graduate degrees were earned during Aixa Heller, Minimalism and movement in SALT 13 the year beginning Fall, 2002. Dissertation, French causatives. The University of Washington hosted this general exam presentation or thesis title fol- Julia Miller, An acoustic analysis of tone in year’s Semantics and Linguistic Theory lows students’ names. Doig River and Blueberry River Beaver. conference on May 9-11. SALT 13 was Laura Partanen, Poverty of the stimulus in PhDs L2 Spanish: The overt pronoun constraint. held under the auspices of the Graduate Chia Hui Huang, Restructuring of case School, the Simpson Center for the Hu- Joyce Parvi, Rules or no rules? An examina- theory: Evidence from S-selected case. tion of the L2 acquisition of French intransi- manities, the College of Arts and Sciences Lorna Rozelle, The structure of sign lan- and the departments of Linguistics, Ger- tive verbs. guage lexicons: Inventory and distribution of Melissa Preston, An acoustic study of Turk- manics, Philosophy and Computer Sci- handshape and location. ence. Sessions were held in Henry Art ish vowel harmony. Hiromi Sato, Selection for clausal comple- Chih-Chi Wen, Phonological change in Ata- Gallery and Boeing Auditorium, and the ments and tense features. yal. program consisted of 15 abstract-selected Tomoko Sekiguchi, The syntax and interpre- papers and four papers from invited speak- tation of resultative constructions. SPECIAL MENTION ers Angelika Kratzer, Manfred Krifka, S.- Hong Ki Sohng, Topics in the syntax of East Students who sent news about themselves. Y. Kuroda and William Ladusaw. Prof. Asian languages: Long-distance anaphora Ogihara, who along with several of his and adverbial case. Benjamin Barrett is listed in the preface of students organized the conference, re- Cinzia Russi, The grammaticalization of Kenkyusha's New Japanese-English Diction- ary, 5th edition (Kinokunya Bookstores, marked on the international flavor of the Italian clitic pronouns. 2003) for assistance during preparation. sessions with scholars attending from Can- PhCs Lesley Carmichael served a spring quarter ada, Germany, the Netherlands, Israel and Kumiko Kato, History of linguistics in Japan internship with Dr. Sharon Oviatt's team at several other countries. This diversity was from the 1930s through the 1960s and On the Center for Human-Computer Communica- Japanese Gapping in Minimalist Syntax. seen in the papers as well, which dealt with tion at the Oregon Graduate Institute of Sci- Hideo Makihara, Sino-Japanese compound data drawn from English, German, Chi- ence & Technology formation and position-sensitive faithfulness nese, Bulgarian, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese (http://www.cse.ogi.edu/CHCC/). In her constraints and Past in Japanese relative and Salish. research she found that children interacting clauses. with a multimodal computing system regu- Uncropped full color originals of the pho- Setsuko Shirai, The duration of function larly employed specific prosodic fortification tos above and additional SALT 13 photos words and Absence of consonantal syllables techniques in attempting to resolve simulated can be found at the following website: in Mon-Khmer languages. system errors. http://depts.washington.edu/salt13/cgi-bin/ MAs Jeff Stevens has been awarded a 2003-2004 slideviewer.cgi?list=salt Misty Azara, The role of pitch accent in FLAS fellowship to study Uzbek. discourse. UW

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