IU’s linguists, both students and faculty, arepresenting their work at several conferences.Here are just a few at which IU linguists re-cently made a showing:Mid-America Linguistics Conference, theUniversity of Kansas, Oct. 15-16:• Minkyung Lee, “Unidirectional Effect ofKorean Accentual Phrasing”• Christen Pearson (Speech and Hearing Sci-ences), “Nonword Repetition Ability as a Pre-dictor of Second Language Learning in ESLAdults”• Richard Gaines (with Alassane Mbaye andRonald P. Schaefer), “SIUE: Wolof’s MotionDomain”• Richard Gaines, “Directional Motion Events

IU linguists’ recent showings at noted conferences

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The department welcomes eight new gradu-ate students this fall. Several of them wereadmitted directly into the Ph.D. program.Iskra Iskrova, a new Ph.D. student, was aFulbright scholar in our department last year.This year all new students and second-yearstudents were invited to a retreat on Satur-day, Sept. 18, to a nearby state park wherethey enjoyed a picnic lunch and short hike.The event was arranged through the depart-ment and by more advanced graduate stu-dents, who presented a brief and informaldiscussion about how to succeed in gradu-ate school and, more specifically, at IU.Vicki Ann Michael Anderson grew up inLebanon County, Penn., in the middle of“Pennsylvania Dutch Country,” which iswhere her interest in languages started. Aspart of her B.A., Vicki spent some time teach-ing EFL in a community outreach programfor a church in Santiago, Chile. She then de-cided to get an M.A. in TESOL and Linguis-tics from Ball State, which she finished in1991. While at Ball State, she taught ESL inthe Intensive English Institute and for theAmerican Language Academy. She thenspent a year teaching English at the Univer-sity of Nancy, France. She’s been married

Eight new grad studentsjoin department

Hodge honored, memorialized, at fall reception

across Bantu”• Hiromi Oda (East Asian Studies Center),“Pain Expressions in English and Japanese”New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAVE)28, Toronto, Oct. 14-17:• Julie Auger (with Jeffrey Steele), “VariationTheory and Formal Theory” (symposium)• Andrew Koontz-Garboden (Spanish), “Co-vert interference in a midwestern U.S. Span-ish verbal system”• Mariya Niendorf (Central Eurasian Studies)and Liz Peterson, “Variation in Finnish pos-sessive forms”• Kelly Jean Sax (French and Italian), “Ac-quisition of stylistic variation by Americanlearners of French: the case of negation”

• Rose Wilkerson, “African-American Englishin film: copula variability”138th Meeting of the Acoustical Society ofAmerica, Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 1-5:• Ken de Jong, speech production theory ses-sion, on timing details in simple syllables• Minkyung Lee, on Korean phrasing mecha-nisms• Byung-Jin Lim, on Korean accent location• Laura Knudsen, on Japanese acquisition ofEnglish intonation patterns• Kyoko Nagao, on gender differences in Japa-nese accent• Mafuyu Kitahara, Deborah Burleson, BobPort, David Collins, and Ken de Jong, onmechanisms of speech rhythm

On Sept. 10, friends, family, students and faculty gathered at the Leo R. DowlingInternational Center to honor the memory of Carleton T. Hodge, 1917-1998, Profes-sor Emeritus of Linguistics and Anthropology at IU. As evidenced in the speechespresented by Steven Franks, Roxana Ma Newman (on behalf of Patrick O’Meara)and Paul Newman, Hodge’s memory lives on not only as a reputed Africanist andlinguist, but as a friend and mentor to many.

Professor Antonio Loprieno of the Department of Near Eastern Languages andCultures at UCLA presented an academic lecture, “New Trends in Egyptian andAfroasiatic Linguistics.” A reception followed the lecture. Members of Hodge’s family, including his wife, brother, and children, attendedthe event. The family has set up a scholarship fund for students in African studies.The event was sponsored by the Department of Linguistics, the African Studies Pro-gram, the Department of Anthropology, the Russian and East European Institute,and the Office of International Programs.

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The relatives of Professor Emeritus Carleton Hodge, 1917-1998, gathered tomemorialize him in September. Antonio Loprieno, left, presented a lecture.

to her husband, Jon, for almost10 years, and they’ll be celebrat-ing their son Jonathon’s firstbirthday soon. Vicki is particu-larly interested in sociolin-guistics with regards to endan-gered languages and dialects,and in second language acquisi-tion and instruction.

Cynthia G. Clopper’shometown is Vienna, Va., but af-ter four years as an undergrad atDuke University, she also callsDurham, N.C., home. The maindraw for Cynthia to IU was (andstill is) David Pisoni’s SpeechResearch Lab in the Psychologydepartment and its strong links

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to linguistics and cognitive science. Linguistics was her undergradu-ate major, and she is here to pursue a Ph.D. (with cognitive science)because she continues to be fascinated by how human beings per-ceive and process spoken language.

Caitlin Dillon grew up in East Lansing, Mich., a city similar toBloomington in many ways. Her interest in linguistics began longbefore she realized it, when she was about 3 years old. Caitlin learnedto speak in Virginia, influenced by her mom’s Boston accent, herdad’s upstate New York accent, the local southern accent and maybeeven the Turkish and Black English accents of her two babysitters.Then she lived in Boston for long enough to realize that people spokepretty differently when she moved to Michigan in second grade!Caitlin earned a B.A. in English from a small college called Aquinasin Grand Rapids, Mich., during which time she spent a semester inIreland. Last year she went to Cambridge University for a Master’sdegree in Linguistics. Now, she’s very happy to be here, both in theIU Linguistics Department and in the town of Bloomington. Shedecided to come to IU because she likes the Midwest, and was im-pressed with the friendliness and academic quality of the faculty,staff and students. She’s looking forward to becoming a Hoosierover the next several years!

Khaled El-Ghamry comes to IU from Egypt, where he studiedat Ain Shams University (ASU) in Cairo. He completed his M.A.degree there in 1995 in syntax (noun phrases in English). He cur-rently is pursuing his Ph.D. in linguistics and natural language pro-cessing. His research interests are syntax, morphology-syntax inter-face in Arabic, as manifested in argument structure in Arabic, therole of argument structure in the computational processing of Ara-bic into English and vice versa. IU’s strong linguistics program,augmented by good cognitive and computer science programs drewhim here – as well as an interest in Arabic and other Semitic lan-guages. Khaled said that Bloomington reminds him of his home-town in Egypt, so he feels neither homesickness nor culture shock,but he may suffer from what he calls “agri-culture shock,” becauseBloomington is so green.

Iskra Iskrova was a Fulbrightscholar in the department last year.She decided to remain here and ap-plied for a joint Ph.D. in Frenchlinguistics and linguistics. Iskrawas born in Bulgaria, but lived innorthern Africa and Paris beforecoming to Bloomington. Hiroko Nakamura is originallyfrom Osaka, Japan, where shestudied International Relations.After writing her senior thesis oneducational policy and nationalityin Singapore, her interest movedto language itself. It was a longway from there to Bloomington.Hiroko wanted to be a linguisticsmajor in graduate school in Japan,but she couldn’t change her major

to something completely different from her college degree. So, shewent to Ohio State University and finished her B.A. in linguistics.Hiroko is now interested in sociolinguistics and hopes she can en-joy other fields like syntax and phonology. While she thinksBloomington is a nice town, she thinks it’s going to take some get-ting used to.

Ellen Trapp moved here from California, where she receivedher B.A. in linguistics from California State University, Fullerton.She is looking forward to the Midwest seasons (though she doesn’tthink that her dog is) and a visit from her father. Ellen was drawn toIU because she knew that not only did it have a respected linguis-tics department, but that the University was also home to the Centerfor Applied Semiotic Studies.

Kelly Trennepohl spends her time between Bloomington andNoblesville, where she has a house, a dog, and her boyfriend, EkowEwusi. She graduated from Bartlesville Wesleyan College inBartlesville, Okla., with a B.A. in math and English, then taughtmath/computers for one year in Warrenton, Mo., at a small, privateschool. She worked as an editor in Indianapolis for six years beforestarting at IU.

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The Department of Linguistics and the Indiana University Lin-guistics Club initiated a new working papers series that will fea-ture specific areas of research strength in linguistics at IndianaUniversity. The first volume, Optimal Green Ideas in Phonology,appeared this summer, edited by Karen Baertsch and Dan Dinnsen.The volume reflects the vigor of our phonology program, withcontributions from our faculty (Stuart Davis), graduate students(Tiffany Kershner, Minkyung Lee, Laura McGarrity, and KathleenO’Connor) and alumni (Yongsung Lee). A special feature of thevolume is John McCarthy’s paper “Sympathy, cumulativity, andthe Duke-of-York gambit,” which he presented at IU last Decem-ber. The next volume will be devoted to sociolinguistics.

First Working Papers in Linguistics Published

Cynthia Clopper, Vicki Anderson, Caitlin Dillon, Khaled El-Gamry,Hiroko Nakamura, Ellen Trapp, Kelly Trennepohl, and Iskra Iskrova.

Letter from the Chair

Tom Ernst joined the de-partment this year as afaculty member teachingclasses in syntax. He isfilling in for YoshiKitagawa, who has takena leave of absence.

Ernst is not a stranger

Syntax grad joins ranks of dept. professors

to many in the department, who knewhim when he worked on his M.A. andPh.D. degrees here. He successfully de-fended his dissertation, “Towards an In-tegrated Theory of Adverb Position inEnglish,” in 1983. Since then, he held avisiting scholar position at IU, teachingsyntax, language typologies, and a semi-nar in syntax. He has also held positionsat Rutgers University, Bryn Mawr Col-lege, the University of Delaware, andOhio State University, Columbus, teach-ing topics in syntax, languages of theworld, and Chinese.

His publications in-clude “Negation in Man-darin Chinese” in NaturalLanguage and LinguisticTheory 13, “Case and theparameterization ofScope Ambiguities” inNatural Language and

Linguistic Theory 16, and “M-Com-mand and Precedence” in Linguistic In-quiry 25.

Ernst’s continuing research interestsinclude the syntax and semantics of ad-verbs and other adverbials; he is closeto completing his book The Syntax of Ad-juncts, to appear from Cambridge Uni-versity Press. He is organizing this year’smeetings of the syntax reading and dis-cussion group, which meets Wednesdaysat noon. For more information about thegroup, you can contact Ernst atternst@indiana.edu.

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Greetings to our current and former students,faculty, and other friends of Linguistics atIU! 1999 has been a busy year, and this news-letter only reflects a fraction of the activitiesof our students, faculty, and alumni. Ourenrollments are strong at both undergradu-ate and graduate levels, and we are expand-ing our popular line of TOPICS courses toinclude areas such as Ebonics (Davis), Lan-guage and Gender (Auger), Indiana Dialects(Botne), Born to be a Genius (Franks/Connell) for the current academic year; nextyear we hope also to offer courses such asLanguage and Politics (Obeng) and Linguis-tics and Law (Newman). Students continueto complete our programs and move on togood jobs or further study. More and moreof our faculty are applying for (and receiv-ing!) external grants. As this newsletter am-ply attests, conference presentations andpublications by affiliated students and fac-ulty were numerous in 1999. We have ad-mitted an excellent group of new graduatestudents, three of whom (Anderson, Clopper,and Dillon) are recipients of the prestigiousChancellor’s Fellowship. These are highlycompetitive Indiana University fellowships,for which our nominees compete againstthose of other departments in the College.The exceptional success of Linguistics can-didates points to the strength and health ofour Department. We have also added slightlyto our faculty ranks, bringing in French andItalian Associate Professor Barbara Vance at25% FTE and appointing Germanic StudiesAssociate Professor Rex Sprouse as an ad-junct faculty member. In short, there is anoverall level of activity which I would findexhausting, if I had the time to stop and thinkabout it. As we enter the new millennium, Inonetheless ponder where we are headed.The field of Linguistics, it seems to me, is ata crossroads. Some traditional pursuits arelow in popularity and have vanishingly fewjob prospects, while the once central placeof syntax has been supplanted by subdisci-plines such as computational linguistics. Thisis largely I believe driven by the employ-ment market, since the same fundamentalquestions that confronted us when Chomskylaunched his generative program forty yearsago still remain unanswered. While I per-

sonally believe that eventually, as practicaldemands become more exacting and sophis-ticated, computational linguists will turnfrom brute force solutions to technical prob-lems to those rooted in Universal Grammarand linguistic theory, this shift will probablybe many years in coming. Therefore, it seemsto me that the best way for us to enter the21st century is to look to our colleagues inCognitive Science and IU’s new School ofInformatics. We need to offer courses thatmeet these needs and to design joint degreeprograms. More and more students are ask-ing for this sort of training, and more andmore jobs, both in industry and academia,require it. I thus continue to seek avenuesfor nurturing our interdisciplinary focus, andto expand in those directions where, I be-lieve, linguistic theory and engineering ap-plications will eventually meet. Unfortu-nately, current resources seriously restrict ourability to develop in this critical direction.Most importantly, we need new faculty withexpertise in various aspects of computationallinguistics. For this reason, my most press-ing goal, as chair, is going to be to work withthe administration to secure new positionsin such areas of clear growth.

Finally, I thank everyone who has con-tributed information to this newsletter. I hopevery much that our alumni will keep in touchand continue to supply us with personal andprofessional news. Feedback on the news-letter, or on any of our programs, is alsogreatly appreciated. I am best reached via e-mail, at franks@indiana.edu. I also thankeveryone who has contributed to the House-holder Fund or to the Linguistics EnrichmentFund. These funds are maintained by the IUFoundation and contributions are fully taxdeductible; for Indiana residents this amountcan even be doubled on state returns. TheHouseholder Fund is used specifically tosupport student research, and the Linguis-tics Enrichment Fund is used for a wide va-riety of activities, such as supporting depart-mental social events, alumni events, and spe-cial research projects. If you would like tocontribute to either fund, please contact de-partmental Administrative Services Coordi-nator Ann Baker at Memorial Hall 322, In-diana University, Bloomington, IN 47405;phone 812-855-6459; e-mail afbaker-@indiana.edu. Checks should be written toIndiana University Foundation.

Steven Franks

Student NewsKaren Baertsch was editor (with Daniel A.Dinnsen) of Indiana University WorkingPapers in Linguistics 1 (IUWPL1): OptimalGreen Ideas in Phonology, Bloomington,IN: IULC Publications, July 1999. Shewrote “Onset Sonority Distance Constraintsthrough Local Conjunction” for CLS 34:The Panels (ed. M. Catherine Gruber, Der-rick Higgins, Kenneth S. Olson, and TamraWysocki), 1-15, Chicago: Chicago Linguis-tic Society; and “Exploring the NostraticHypothesis” in Nostratic: Sifting the Evi-dence (with Alexis Manaster Ramer, PeterA. Michalove, and Karen L. Adams, ed. byJoseph C. Salmons and Brian D. Joseph),John Benjamins.

Chin Wan Chung and Byung-jin Lim pre-sented a poster paper at the 18th West CoastConference on Formal Linguistics at the Uni-versity of Arizona, April 8-11. The paper, “Thebehavior of velar nasal and syllabification,”will appear in The Coyote Papers at the Uni-versity of Arizona. Chin Wan also presented“Consecutive reduplication in Korean” at the8th Harvard International Symposium on Ko-rean Linguistics, July 16-18.

Tiffany Kershner presented “Focus, Sa-lience, and Long/Short Forms in Zulu” atthe 30th Annual Conference on African Lin-guistics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, July 2-5, 1999. She and Rob-ert Botne presented “Temporal Domains andthe So-called Perfect in Zulu” at the sameconference. Kershner was awarded a USIAFulbright to Malawi 1999-2000 and an IUResearch Incentive Dissertation Year Fel-lowship.

Mafuyu Kitahara and Haruka Fukazawa’s“Domain-relative Faithfulness and the OCP:Rendaku revisited” will appear in Issues inJapanese Phonology and Morphology (eds.Jeroen van de Weijer and Tetsuo Nishihara;Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin and New York).Kitahara gave two presentations at theXIVth International Congress of PhoneticSciences, San Francisco, on August 6: “Ac-centual contrast maintenance and voweldevoicing in Tokyo Japanese” and “A Com-parative study of rhythm in Arabic, English,and Japanese” (with Keiichi Tajima andBushra Zawaydeh). Both were published inconference proceedings. Other presenta-tions include “Vowel devoicing and thefunction of pitch accent” at the Speech/Au-ditory Group meeting of the Acoustical So-

ciety of Japan, JAIST, Tatsukuchi, July 8;“An overview of an approach to speechrhythm in dynamical systems theory” atATR HIP, July 6; “Phonetic analysis ofspeech rhythm” at Kyushu University,Hakata, June 25; “Models, variables, param-eters, and OT-phonology” at Kyushu Univ,Hakata, June 25; and “Rhythm in speechproduction and dynamical systems theory:a preliminary analysis” at the spring meet-ing of The Phonological Society of Japan,Tokyo Metropolitan University, June 18. Heis currently employed as the computer con-sultant for the Linguistics Department.

Minkyung Lee presented her paper “Pho-netic Effects of Korean Accentual Phrase”at the Conference on Korean Linguistics (inconjunction with the 1999 Linguistic Insti-tute), University of Illinois, July 23-25,1999. She also wrote “A Case of Sym-pathy in Javanese Affixation” that appearedin the IUWPL 1. In October, at the Mid-America Linguistics Conference at the Uni-versity of Kansas, Lawrence, she presentedher paper, “Unidirectional Effect of KoreanAccentual Phrasing.” She will present“Branching and Phrasing in Seoul Korean”in the poster session of the Acoustical So-ciety of America Conference, Columbus,Ohio, Nov. 1-5.

B.J. Lim presented “The Tone AlignmentPattern of Korean” with Ken de Jong at theConference on Korean Linguistics, Univer-sity of Illinois, July 24; and “The role ofsyllable weight and position on prominencein Korean” at the Japanese/Korean Linguis-tics Conference, Columbus, Ohio, July 31.

Laura Wilbur McGarrity presented“Agreement and ‘un-agreement’ inLamnso” at ACAL 30 . Laura McGarrityhas also been awarded a predoctoraltraineeship through the NIH training grant“Training in speech, hearing, and sensorycommunication.”

Betsy McCall and Kyoko Nagao presented“Aspects of Markedness in JapaneseMimetics” at the Kentucky Foreign Lan-guage Conference, April 24, Lexington Ky.,and “A perception-based account of mimeticpalatalization in Japanese” at a satellitemeeting of the International Conference of

60th LSA summer institute held at UIUC

Ten IU students attended the 60th Linguistic Institute last summer, June 21-July 30, at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The biennial institute, sponsored bythe Linguistics Society of America, featured workshops, presentations, and courses pre-sented by some of the best-known scholars in the field of linguistics. Hundreds of linguis-tics students and scholars from around the world came to Champaign-Urbana to participatein the event, offering an opportunity to rub shoulders with and learn from linguists in an all-encompassing range of areas, from computational linguistics to optimality theory in syn-tax. IU’s Paul Newman taught Introduction to African Linguistics.

IU students who attended were Masanori Deguchi, Michael Koh, Minkyung Lee, ErikLevin, Betsy McCall, Kyoko Nagao, Elizabeth Peterson (all from the Linguistics Depart-ment), Linda Cumberland (Anthropology), Richard File (Spanish and Portuguese), andYongsung Lee (Visiting Scholar at IU). Institute students who were affiliated with a Big 10university had the option of receiving university credit hours for their courses at the insti-tute.

The 1999 institute was dedicated to the memory of Robert B. Lees, its first head andDirector of the first Institute held at UIUC in 1968. Directors were Adele Goldberg (UIUC,director), Hans Henrich Hock (UIUC, co-director), Ivan Sag (Stanford U, associate direc-tor), and Peter Lasersohn (UIUC, internal associate director).

A full listing of courses and events, including photographs, can be seen at the web site<www.beckman.uiuc.edu/linginst/index.html>. The next LSA Linguistic Institute will bein 2001 at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Phonetic Sciences on the Role of Percep-tion in Phonology, July, Berkeley, Calif.

Liz Peterson presented “The LinguisticSituation of the Saami of Northern Europe”at the Association of Central Eurasian Stu-dents Sixth Annual Conference, IU, March27; “Variation of the Luo prepositions nie,entie, and e” at the Annual Conference ofAfrican Linguistics, University of Illinoisat Urbana-Champaign, July 2-5; “Variationof the Finnish Possessive Form: Focus onwritten data,” at the Linguistics Associationof the Southwest, San Antonio, Texas, Oc-tober 1; and “Variation of the Finnish Pos-sessive Form: a new written standard?” atNWAVE 28, Toronto, Oct. 16.

Kathleen O’Connor, who is pursuing ajoint Ph.D. in Linguistics and French, re-ceived the Peter Cannings Prize this springfor excellence in French Linguistics. Shealso received a teaching award from the De-partment of French & Italian. O’Connor wasawarded a travel grant from the College ofArts & Sciences to present her paper “Whenis a cluster not a cluster?” at the annualmeeting of the International Clinical Lin-guistics & Phonetics Association inMontreal in May. She has been invited topresent another paper on children’s acqui-sition of consonant clusters at a specialworkshop at the upcoming meeting of theAmerican Speech-Language & HearingAssociation, to be held in San Francisco thisNovember. O’Connor has been appointedas a Research Assistant on Dinnsen andGierut’s NIH project on the development ofphonological categories.

Kimberly Swanson, who is pursuing a jointPh.D. in Linguistics and French, has beenappointed as an Editorial Assistant for thejournal Studies in Second Language Acqui-sition, edited by Albert Valdman.

This semester the Linguistics Department greets two international visiting schol-ars, one from Korea and one from Poland.

Jahyeok Koo is from Kangnung, a small seaside city in the eastern part of Ko-rea. The city is noted for its beautiful scenery, especially for its high mountains andclean rivers and sea. Koo received his doctoral degree from Seoul National Univer-sity in 1994. His dissertation work concerned thematic structure under the frame-work of minimalism. He has also studied the argument structure of psych, middle,unaccusative and dative verbs, and secondary predicates. He works as an assistantprofessor for the Department of English Language and Literature at Kangnung Na-tional University, and has taught English Syntax and Current English there for aboutsix years.

Koo’s family joined him in his visit to Bloomington. His two daughters areattending University Elementary School, where Koo says they are very excited andinterested to keep company with new friends, learn a foreign language, and travelto new places. They are also happy to take music lessons from teachers at the Schoolof Music. Koo’s wife is also learning English in Bloomington. She spends timeteaching the Korean language to children and going to church.

Koo likes country living, so is very satisfied with life in Bloomington. He saidIndiana University is a much better place than he expected, and he has already seensystematic lectures and heated discussion and research to enable him to go back tohis university with much experience and knowledge. He also appreciates the oppor-tunity Bloomington and IU give to come in contact with arts and cultural attrac-tions.

Zbigniew Mozejko is a junior lecturer at the Institute of English Studies, War-saw University, Poland. He graduated in 1994 with an M.A. thesis “The Param-etrized Binding Theory. A Case Study in the Acquisitions of Anaphors and Pro-nouns,” which included field research on Lithuanian (with an aim to establish thegoverning categories in that language). Since, Mozejko has been occupied with histeaching duties at the university, although acquisitional studies have always re-mained a steady interest. He currently is working on his Ph.D. dissertation: “TheRole of Vocabulary in the Acquisition of Syntactic Structures. A Pedagogical Gram-mar Perspective.” His five-month stay at Indiana University, made possible by theIU International Office and bilateral exchange program between IU and WarsawUniversity, is devoted primarily to preparing an experiment on language awarenessamong native and non-native speakers of English and gathering the recent litera-ture. Mozejko would like to thank the Department of Linguistics and IU Interna-tional Office for inviting him to Bloomington.

Two visiting scholars hosted by department

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Congratulations to Barbara Vance, on the birth of ClaireLillian

Little Linguists!

George Fowler, on the birth of Anastasia

And Ken de Jong, on the birth of Joshua

This just in: The following IU facultyand students are making presenta-tions at the annual LSA meeting inChicago in January 2000: Christo-pher Beckwith, Mafuyu Kitahara, Kende Jong, Robert Port, DeborahBurleson, and David Collins.

From the Director of Graduate Study One question that I am frequently asked is “How long should Itake to finish a Ph.D. degree?” The answer usually depends on theindividual circumstances of the student. Does the student enter theprogram with an M.A. degree and is he/she able to transfer credits?Does the student have a particular focus from the beginning of gradu-ate study and keep to it? Is the student considering doing a doublePh.D. with Cognitive Science or some other department? Does thestudent need to spend a year or more overseas doing fieldwork orother type of research for the dissertation? All these considerationscan affect the length of time one spends toward obtaining the doc-toral degree. An important factor in completing a Ph.D. in a timely manner isto be sure committees are set up at the appropriate times. All Ph.D.students should have their advisory committees set up by the end ofthe first year or beginning of the second year of the Ph.D. Normally,the advisor should make sure that the committee is set up on time.However, it doesn’t hurt to remind the advisor. Also, it’s importantto make sure that the official form for setting up the advisory com-mittee is filled out and signed by the members. The major role ofyour advisory committee is to help establish the procedures for thequalifying exams. In our department the “exams” are frequently tworesearch papers in separate areas of the field. However, dependingon the committee, there may be one research paper and one exam,or even two exams. For most of our Ph.D. students the qualifyingprocedure occurs around the fourth year of graduate study. It usu-ally takes 3-3.5 years to fulfill course requirements (longer for stu-dents doing double degrees), and the procedure should begin afterthat. The qualifying procedure almost always takes longer than the

The Training Program in Speech, Hearing and Sensory communication has received an-other five-year award from NIDCD to support post-doctoral, pre-doctoral and medical stu-dents. Professor David B. Pisoni is the program director. The training program is enteringits 21st year of operation at Indiana University. This training program focuses on multi-disciplinary research training in basic scientific methodologies and theory in the Commu-nication Sciences. In the review of this application, the NIH stated that the Indiana Programis a model of effective integration between basic science and clinical application. The Indi-ana Program also attracts and trains M.D.s who are interested in doing leading-edge re-search related to hearing impairments in children.

Post-docs are appointed both here in Bloomington and at the Medical School in India-napolis. Pre-docs are selected from the graduate students enrolled in the Ph.D. programs inPsychology, Linguistics, Speech & Hearing Sciences and the two interdisciplinary pro-grams in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science. Members of the Training Grant AdvisoryCommittee are Karen Kirk, Daniel Dinnsen, Judith Gierut, and Larry Humes. Feel free toe-mail Professor Pisoni (pisoni@indiana.edu) or Darla Sallee (dsallee@indiana.edu) formore information on the training program or to get further details on the faculty and re-search facilities of the program.

Linguistics students Cynthia Clopper and Damon Stewart are employed as graduateassistants working in the lab.

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student plans. Research papers may involve one or more rounds ofrevision; exams frequently entail mastering a long reading list be-fore they are actually taken. The qualifying procedure usually lastsa year. After passing the qualifying exams, you should begin work on adissertation proposal and establish a research (dissertation) com-mittee. At the minimum, the committee must have three membersfrom the Linguistics Department plus one outside member, usuallyrepresenting the minor. For purposes of the research committee, de-partmental members include adjuncts and emeriti. Concerning thedissertation proposal, students normally need to write two versions:a two-page prospectus that goes to the graduate college and a longerversion of the proposal for your committee members. The length ofthe proposals that I have seen over the years varies greatly. I’veseen proposals that were fewer than 10 pages and ones that werealmost 100 pages. After writing a proposal, it is defended in front ofthe research committee. Once the proposal is successfully defended,the committee signs a form that officially establishes them as thecommittee. This form must be signed by all committee members.Ideally, a Ph.D. student would be working on the dissertation pro-posal during the fifth year of study. The actual writing of the disser-tation usually takes anywhere from 1-3 years, depending on the stu-dent and the topic. I think most Ph.D. students have to figure onabout six years for the completion of the entire program. If you have particular questions regarding the graduate program,the requirements, transferring credit, or other advisory issues, pleasecontact me at 855-2043, by e-mail at davis@indiana.edu, or dropby during my office hours in Memorial Hall 317.

Stuart Davis

The Linguistics Colloquia Committee,headed by Julie Auger, has planned a vari-ety of presentations for 1999-00. The firstcolloquium, on Oct. 1, featured ChrisKennedy of Northwestern University, whodiscussed “Comparative (Sub-)Deletion andOptimality in Syntax.” The second, Oct. 8,was presented by visiting scholar ZbigniewMozejko. His talk was “Language Aware-ness as a Factor Facilitating Second Lan-guage Acquisition: Examples from Polishand English.” A reception was held in thePolish Studies Center. Peter Kosta ofPotsdam University presented “Minimalismand Free Constituent Order (in Russian asCompared to German) on Oct. 19. A recep-tion followed the lecture. Other scheduledcolloquia for 1999-00 are, Dec. 3, Tom Ernst;in the spring, Becky Brown; Purdue Univer-sity; Yves Roberge, University of Toronto.

Speech and Hearing lab receives NIDCD support Linguistic Dept. Colloquia

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Farewell, Ani!Assistant Professor Ani Hawkinson, Af-rican Languages Coordinator, left IU inthe fall for a position as Associate Di-rector for Projects for the National Af-rican Language Resource Center inMadison, Wisc. Hawkinson had servedas the African Languages Coordinatorfor one year. She expressed her grati-tude, and regretted leaving.

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Julie Auger published (with AlbertValdman) “Letting French students hear thediverse voices of francophony” in ModernLanguage Journal 83; “Le redoublementdes sujets en français informel québécois:une approche variationiste,” in CanadianJournal of Linguistics 43; “Vowel epenthesisin Vimeu Picard: A preliminary analysis”(with Jeffrey Steele), to appear in A Selec-tion of Papers from NWAVE 27, Universityof Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguis-tics. “The development of a literary standard:The case of Picard in Vimeu-Ponthieu,France” was accepted for publication inWhen Languages Collide: Perspectives onLanguage Conflict, Language Competition,and Language Coexistence, B.D. Joseph etal. (eds.), Ohio State University Press. Au-ger presented (with Jeffrey Steele) “A Casestudy in Microparametric Variation: VowelEpenthesis in Picard” at the Linguistics Sym-posium on Romance Languages 29, Univer-sity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 8-11, andat the 10th International Conference on Meth-ods in Dialectology (Methods X), MemorialUniversity, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Aug.1-6; “Vowel Epenthesis in Picard: A Quan-titative Analysis of Constrainmt Interaction”(with Jeffrey Steele) at NWAVE 28, Univer-sity of Toronto & York University, Toronto,Oct. 14-18. “The evolution of a minority lan-guage in the age of the internet: The case ofPicard in Vimeu, France” was presented atthe “When Languages Collide: Socioculturaland Geopolitical Implications of LanguageConflict and Language Coexistence” confer-ence, Ohio State University, Columbus, Nov.13-15. Auger organized a symposium, “Lan-guage Variation and Formal Theory,” at theNWAVE conference in Toronto. Auger alsoparticipated in a panel on “Balancing Teach-ing, Research, and Service” at the FourthAnnual Preparing Future Faculty SpringConference for All Graduate Students: TheFirst Five Years: Life as a New Faculty Mem-ber, IU, March 4.

Christopher I. Beckwith (CEUS) gave twopapers this summer: “The Idea of a Classi-fier System: Theoretical Problems in theAnalysis of Japanese Noun Specification”

Faculty Notes at the Language Typology Conference,Kazan State University, Kazan, Tatarstan,Russia, May 15-25, and “Toward CommonJapanese-Koguryoic: A Reexamination ofthe Old Koguryo Onomastic Materials” atthe 9th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Confer-ence, The Ohio State University, Columbus,July 31-Aug. 2.

Robert Botne published “Future and distal-ka-’s: Proto-Bantu or nascent forms?” inBantu Historical Linguistics: Theoreticaland Empirical Perspectives, CSLI. He pre-sented “Grammaticized futures from ‘Come’and “Go’: The contrasting cases of Zulu(Bantu) and Lamnso (Grassfields)” and“Temporal domains, aspect, and the so-calledperfect in Zulu” (with Tiffany Kershner) atthe 30th ACAL, July.

Stuart Davis was an invited speaker at therecent Phonology 2000 Symposium held atHarvard/MIT. He spoke about “OptimalityTheory: Empirical Problems and Insights.”He also gave an invited talk on the same topicat Kobe University in Japan in June. LastJanuary he presented “On the Distributionof /h/ and Aspirated Stops in American Eng-lish” at the biennial Holland Institute of Lin-guistics Phonology conference (HILP). Hepresented two talks (with Bushra Zawaydeh)on Arabic hypocoristics (nicknames), one atthe Arabic Linguistic Symposium held atStanford last March and one at the SemiticMorphology Workshop held at the Univer-sity of Illinois in July. Several of Davis’spapers have been published in the past year.These include “On the Moraic Representa-tion of Underlying Geminates: Evidencefrom Prosodic Morphology” in The Prosody-Morphology Interface from Cambridge Uni-versity Press, “A Descriptive Analysis ofHypocoristics in Colloquial Arabic” (withZawaydeh) in Language and Linguistics, and“Constraint-Based Analysis of JapaneseRhotacism” (with Isao Ueda) in Pathologiesof Speech and Language: Advances in Clini-cal Phonetics and Linguistics. Davis has hadseveral papers recently accepted for publi-cation. These include “On the Representa-tion of Initial Geminates” to appear in Pho-nology, “The Syllable Contact Constraint in

Korean: An Optimality-Theoretic Analysis”(with Seung-Hoon Shin) to appear in Jour-nal of East Asian Linguistics, and “LanguageGames, Segment Imposition, and the Syl-lable,” (with Robert Botne) to appear in Stud-ies in Language. Davis was recently a re-cipient of a fellowship from the Japan Soci-ety for the Promotion of Science to do re-search in Japan next March.

Dan Dinnsen and Judith Gierut (SPHS)have embarked on the second year of theirnew five-year NIH-funded project on thedevelopment of phonological categories.Building on their prior work, they have nowamassed a comprehensive database on thephonologies and learning patterns of ap-proximately 200 children. Dinnsen has beenappointed to the Editorial Board of ClinicalLinguistics & Phonetics and has been namedAssociate Editor of the Journal of Child Lan-guage. Dinnsen presented his paper “Newinsights from optimality theory for acquisi-tion” at the annual meeting of the Interna-tional Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics As-sociation in Montreal in May. Dinnsen’schapter “Some empirical and theoretical is-sues in disordered child phonology” ap-peared in the new volume Handbook of ChildLanguage Acquisition, Academic Press.Dinnsen has also been invited to presentsome of his recent optimality theoretic workon phonological acquisition at JohnsHopkins University this December. Dinnsenwill be giving two other papers at the up-coming meeting of the American Speech-Language & Hearing Association to be heldin San Francisco this November. Dinnsen’spaper “Variation and emerging faithfulness

in phonological acquisition” (with LauraMcGarrity) appeared in Proceedings of the23rd Annual Boston University Conferenceon Language Development. “A follow-upstudy of the linguistic and intellectual abili-ties of children who were phonologicallydisordered” (with Tom Powell and MaryElbert) appeared in Pathologies of speechand language: Advances in clinical phonet-ics and linguistics. “The effect of substitu-tion patterns on phonological treatment out-comes” (with Karen Forrest and MaryElbert) has been accepted for publication inClinical Linguistics Phonetics.

Steven Franks was promoted to Full Pro-fessor in 1999. He presented “The Pronun-ciation of Verbs and Clitics” at Purdue Uni-versity in December 1998 and at PrincetonUniversity in February. He was an invitedspeaker to Formal Approaches to SouthSlavic and Balkan Languages 3, in Plovdiv,Bulgaria, in September, where he presented(with Îeljko Bo‰koviç) “Phonology-SyntaxInteractions in South Slavic.” He also gavetalks in Plovdiv and Sofia on Slavic numer-als. At ESCOL in November he presented“How Metrics Usually Wins” (with Slavicsgraduate student Don Reindl). He is present-ing (with student Michael Yadroff) a plenarypaper, “The Origin of Prepositions,” at theThird European Conference on Formal De-scription of Slavic Languages, in Leipzig,Germany, in December. He published “ACopy and Delete Analysis of Second Posi-tion Clitics” in Zeitschrift für Slawistik 44.2,155-166; “Optimality Theory and Clitics atPF” in Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguis-tics: The Seattle Meeting, ed. K. Dziwireket al., 101-121; “Approaches to ‘Schizo-phrenic’ Polish Person Agreement” (withPiotr Banski) in Formal Approaches toSlavic Linguistics: The Seattle Meeting; and“The Syntax of Nonfinite Complementa-tion,” (review) by Bo‰koviç in Language. Hewrote a chapter, “Clitics at the Interface” for

Clitic Systems in European Languages, JohnBenjamins (in press).

Michael Gasser, Douglas Eck, (ComputerScience/Cognitive Science Ph.D. student)and Robert Port’s article “Meter as mecha-nism: A neural network that learns metricalpatterns” recently appeared in the journalConnection Science. In July, Gasser pre-sented a paper at the International Confer-ence on Cognitive Science in Tokyo withEliana Colunga (Computer Science/Cogni-tive Science Ph.D. student) titled “How ba-bies learn to find words.” Gasser is co-PI ona new grant with PI Linda Smith (Psychol-ogy), “Learning Nouns in English and Japa-nese,” which has been funded by NIH.

Ken de Jong recently had two papers pub-lished in Journal of Phonetics. “Stress-re-lated Variation in the Articulation of CodaAlveolar Stops: Flapping Revisited” reportedanalyses of various data from X-ray tonguemovement traces to perceptual data concern-ing the so-called flapping of “t” and “d” af-ter stressed vowels. The second, “Stress,Duration, and Intonation in Arabic Word-level Prosody,” reports the first stage of alarger study of Arabic stress with IU Ph.D.Bushra Zawaydeh. Some of the results of thesecond stage of this work on Arabic werereported at the International Congress ofPhonetic Sciences last spring and appear inthe proceedings of the conference. He alsohas been presenting colloquia at various uni-versities summarizing his work on stress, onsyllable structure, and on how acoustic andarticulatory factors affect speech patterning.

Hyo Sang Lee (East Asian Languages) pub-lished “A discourse-pragmatic anaylsis of theCommittal -ci in Korean: a synthetic ap-proach to the form-meaning relation,” inJournal of Pragmatics 31 (1999), 243-275.A paper entitled “Dynamicity as an archi-concept in Korean” has been accepted forpublication in Studies in Language. He pre-

sented “Grammaticalization of the Koreanconnective -nuntey/(u)ntey: a case of gram-maticalization of figure-ground relation” atthe International Symposium on New Re-flection on Grammaticalization, June 16-19,in Potsdam, Germany. Lee has been selectedas an editorial board member of a new jour-nal, Journal of American Association ofTeachers of Korean (AATK), ed. Ho-MinSohn, which will be launched in 2001. HyoSang has been promoted to Associate Pro-fessor, as well as granted tenure, to begin inJuly 2000.

Paul Newman was on sabbatical during thesecond semester, 1998-99. In January, he trav-eled to Europe, where he gave talks in Londonand attended a symposium on ideophones inCologne. During the remainder of his sabbati-cal, he spent part of the time as a visitingscholar in the Department of Linguistics,UCLA (where he worked on Hausa historicalphonology) and as a visiting fellow at the Re-search Centre for Linguistic Typology at theAustralian National University in Canberra(where he investigated practical and method-ological questions relating to linguistic field-work). During the summer, he taught a shortcourse on African Linguistics at the LSA Lin-guistics Institute. His controversial paper, “Wehas seen the enemy and it is us: The endan-gered languages issue as a hopeless cause” hasrecently appeared as the lead article in Studiesin the Linguistic Sciences 28, Urbana-Champaign.

Roxana Ma Newman (International Pro-grams) has been selected to succeed RobertBotne as Director of the Program in AfricanLanguages and Linguistics for this academicyear.

Samuel Obeng’s book, ConversationalStrategies: Prosodic Features and DiscourseCategories in Akan, appeared in October. Hepublished “Apologies in Akan Discourse” in

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Journal of Pragmatics in May; “Grammati-cal Pragmatics: Power in Akan Judicial Dis-course” in Pragmatics in July, and “Redu-plication in Ncham” in AfrikanisticheArbeitspapiere 58 in July. Obeng authoredtwo chapters, one with Efuro SibinaAdegbija,“Sub-Saharan Africa” in Languageand Ethnic Identity, ed. Joshua Fishman,Oxford University Press, and the other, “‘NoCondition is Permanent’: Textuality,Contextuality and Intertextuality in Ghana-ian English Autonyms” in New Directionsin Ghanaian Linguistics. He presented hispaper “From Praise to Criticism: APragmalinguistic Analysis of Political Meta-phors in Akan” at the 30th ACAL and inAmsterdam at the International Conferenceon Metaphors and the World’s Political Sys-tems.

Robert Port’s paper “Speech rhythm inEnglish and Japanese” (with Keiichi Tajima),reporting on experiments using the ‘speechcycling’ task to differentiate characteristicrhythmic patterns of the two languages, willappear in Laboratory-Phonology 6, Cam-bridge University Press. His paper “Speechand rhythmic behavior” (with Tajima andFred Cummins) appeared in Savelsburgh,van der Maas and van Geert (eds.) Non-lin-ear Developmental Processes. “Meter asmechanism: A neural network that learnsmetrical patterns” (with Mike Gasser andDoug Eck) will appear in Connection Sci-ence.

Rex Sprouse’s (Germanic Studies) success-ful tenure bid led to promotion to AssociateProfessor. This summer he visited the U.K.,where he gave a lecture at the University ofYork, “Two arguments for the Strong UGhypothesis in adult L2 acquisition” and helda series of workshops for post-graduate stu-dents at the University of Durham, “Newperspectives on the Strong UG Hypothesisin L2 acquisition.” Sprouse presented “Theacquisition of German word order by En-glish-speaking classroom learners,” at theUniversity of Toronto and York University,Oct. 2. This summer he attended CwrsCymraeg y Man Cyfarfod, an intensive

Welsh language course at York Universityin Toronto. The course was sponsored byCymdeithas Madog (The Welsh Studies In-stitute of North America), on whose boardSprouse serves. Sprouse’s “An explanationfor the decline of null pronouns in certainGermanic and Romance languages” (withBarbara Vance) was in Language Creationand Language Change: Creolization,Diachrony, and Development, MIT Press;and “Semantics, pragmatics and second lan-guage acquisition: The case of combien ex-tractions” (with Laurent Dekydtspotter, Kim-berly Swanson, and Rachel Thyre) was inProceedings of the 23rd Annual Boston Uni-versity Conference on Language Develop-ment. Sprouse, Dekydtspotter and Thyre’spaper “The Interpretation of quantificationat a distance in English-Frenchinterlanguage: Domain-specificity and sec-ond-language acquisition,” has been ac-cepted for publication in Second LanguageAcquisition. Sprouse has three more papersin press: “When syntactic theories evolve:Consequences for L2 acquisition research”(with Bonnie Schwartz), to appear in Sec-ond Language Grammars, Blackwell; “Theuse and abuse of linguistic theory in L2 ac-quisition research” (with Schwartz) to ap-pear in The Proceedings of Generative Ap-proaches to Second Language Acquisition(GASLA) 98; and “The primacy of syntaxand second language acquisition: The inter-pretation of combien extractions in English-French interlanguage” (with Dekydtspotterand Swanson), to appear in Proceedings ofGASLA 98. He presented “Interpretation insecond language acquisition: Quantifiers andtense in English-French interlanguage” (withDekydtspotter and Alison Leininger) atSLRF in September; and “Necessity in gram-matical design and L2 acquisition: Quanti-fier-tense interactions in English-Frenchinterlanguage” (with Dekydtspotter andLeininger) at BU’s Conference on LanguageDevelopment, Nov. 5-7.

Natsuko Tsujimura (East Asian Languages)edited The Handbook of Japanese Linguis-tics, which appeared in August. She also

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wrote a chapter, “Lexical Semantics,” whichappears in the volume. She has published twoarticles: “Deverbal Nominals and Telicity inJapanese” in Journal of East Asian Linguis-tics 8.2 (with Masayo Iida, Xerox InxightSoftware) and “Two types of Zi-Verbs inJapanese” in Journal of Association ofTeachers of Japanese 33.1 (with TakakoAikawa, Microsoft). Her essay “Eigo-noDooshi, Nihongo-no” appeared in the Octo-ber issue of Nikkei Science. She gave threelectures: “Divergence or Convergence?: ACase of Stativity in Japanese”at Ohio StateUniversity in April, and “Classification ofStative Verbs in Japanese” for Mejiro Lin-guistic Circle at the Japan Women’s Univer-sity and at Japan’s Nanzan University inMay.

Albert Valdman and the Creole Institutereceived funding from the U.S. Departmentof Education, Title VI, to develop a bilin-gual Haitian Creole-English Reference Dic-tionary. Valdman has also received fundingfrom the French government agency forfrancophone universities, AUPELFUREF,for lexicographic research on Haitian French.Additionally, his Haitian Creole researchteam will be working with Deschamps-Hachette in Haiti on a project to create abiligual French-Haitan Creole/Haitian Cre-ole-French dictionary designed to be usedin the schools in conjunction with the intro-duction of Haitian Creole as the language ofinstruction. During the first two weeks ofOctober, Professor Valdman and the CreoleInstitute sponsored the visit of ProfessorMarie-Christine Hazael-Massieux. ProfessorHazael-Massieux visited as a fellow of theInstitute for Advanced Study. She is a lead-ing international specialist of French-basedCreole languages and the Director of theInstitut d’Etudes Creoles et Francophones atthe University of Provence, as well as theeditor of Etudes Creoles.

Barbara Vance presented “Subject cliticsand the decline of Verb-second in the his-tory of French” at the 29th Linguistic Sym-posium on Romance Languages in Ann Ar-bor, Mich., in April.

IULC had a busy year last year and is looking forward to anumber of interesting events coming up. We continued ourLingLunch Series where students (and also faculty) canpresent their current work to an informal, friendly audienceand collect feedback before presenting it to larger audiencesat conferences. We also initiated a new series, the FacultyResearch Series. This is a series of informal meetings be-tween an invited faculty member and the students, and isintended to give the students some insight into what the fac-ulty member is working on and interested in. We organizedsome more social activities as well, including a bowling night(and found out we had a couple of pretty good bowlers in thedepartment!) and got together for happy hour at a couple ofplaces around town.

We kicked off the new semester at the end of August withour annual fall picnic and a few new officers. This year, inaddition to good food, volleyball, frisbee, and good conver-sation, we were lucky enough to have live music. Afro Hoo-sier Intl, featuring some of our own faculty members, waskind enough to give us a taste of their afropop repertoire.

On the publications side, we published two books over thesummer. The first is volume one of a two-volume set of col-lected essays by Joseph Emonds, The Syntax of Local Pro-cesses. The second volume is due out later this year. We alsopublished the first volume of our new Indiana UniversityWorking Papers in Linguistics (IUWPL) volume. The sec-ond volume in this series is already in the works and willhighlight some of the sociolinguistics work in progress here.

Club officers this year are Karen Baertsch, president; LizPeterson, vice-president; Debbie Burleson, secretary; SeanMcLennan, librarian and webmaster; Jennifer Moless, ac-tivities director; and Masa Deguchi, student-faculty liaison.

Note from the director of undergraduate studiesLast year, as in previous years, we had an excellent class of under-graduates graduating from our program. These students illustratethe variety of interests and backgrounds that the students bring tothe program, as well as the variety of people that find linguisticstraining to be useful. The class included eight students (a typicalyear for the linguistics major), six of whom are double majors, eachwith a different department. The class includes Amy Baker (Span-ish), Janang Ensiring (a professional from Malaysia interested inlanguage policy and education, Geography), Beth Hosfeld (French),Aishah Mahmood (Speech and Hearing Sciences), Jamie Snyder(Sociology), and Naomi Zimmer (English). The other two studentswere students who knew about linguistics from the beginning oftheir IU careers: Betsy Garman, who has been interested in Ameri-can Indian languages, and Kerrie Vanderlugt, who transferred to IUspecifically to study in our linguistics program. In addition, we hadsix minor students (three from Spanish, two from German, and onefrom English). These students, with diverse backgrounds and inter-ests, have one thing in common besides linguistics: a good under-graduate record. Their work shows not only that linguistics attractsa special brand of good students, but also that their training equipsthem to do well academically. Among these, Jamie and Naomi wereparticularly remarkable, and both were named Outstanding Seniorsin Linguistics and recognized for their outstanding work in theirlinguistics classes. We are proud of all our students and wish themthe best in their diverging career paths and hope that they all keep intouch both with each other and with us. We currently have 26 active linguistics majors, also represent-ing the same remarkable range of interests and backgrounds as ourgraduating class. I think I can speak for the whole faculty in sayingthat we look forward to their excellent work and stimulating inter-actions with them in the coming years about all sorts of topics. If you have particular questions about the undergraduate pro-gram, you can reach me at 812-855-8199, or by e-mail atkdejong@indiana.edu.

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IULC UpdateThe National Endowment for the Humanities has provided the IUCreole Institute a grant of $200,000 for lexical research on Louisi-ana French, generally known as Cajun. The project, directed by AlbertValdman, Rudy Professor of French and Italian Linguistics, will in-clude field work in all Cajun speaking parishes of Louisiana andprovide a picture of the current vocabulary used by the estimated250,000 speakers of the language. Collaborating on this project aretwo specialists of Cajun French who have spearheaded the move-ment to revive the language and endow it with literature, BarryAncelet of University of Southwestern Louisiana (Lafayette) andAmanda Lafleur of Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge). Pro-fessor Ancelet earned an M.A. in Folklore from IU and taught Frenchhere. Also collaborating on this important project are Kevin Rottetof the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and Michael Picone ofthe University of Alabama. Professor Rottet completed a Ph.D. inFrench and General Linguistics at IU in 1995.

Creole Institute receives grant

Linguists celebrate IU Soccer!

Linguistics Department students and faculty were invited to attenda pre-soccer party bash in the Metz Lounge and the subsequent soc-cer game, IU vs. Kentucky, at Bill Armstrong Stadium on Oct. 20.The event was sponsored by the IU Credit Union.

Guests included visiting presenter Peter Kosta, Ken de Jong andfamily, Steve Franks and family, Bob and Diane Port, Robert andKelsey Botne, Tom Ernst, Albert Valdman, Liz Peterson, Mike Koh,Clancy and Richa Clements, Ben Keil, Samantha Pemberton, SamuelObeng, Mafuyu Kitahara, and Caitlin Dillon.

The event proved that the department houses some true soccerfans, and provided a good opportunity for guests to mingle andmomentarily revel in the success of IU’s soccer team (we won!) andto escape the drudgery of midterms. The stadium announcer evenwelcomed the night’s special guests: the “school” of linguistics.

The Fred W. Householder FundThe Fred W. Householder Awards were received by:Andrea Juhasz for research on acquisition of Hungarian Vowels, Adam Learyand Corey Muench for research on their qualifying paper, “Attractor Dynam-ics in Speech”, Laura Wilbur McGarrity for research on Lamnso, MarkPennington for research on his dissertation, and Gladys Rose Wilkerson forresearch on Spanish (semi-)creole in the Dominican Republic.

Recent contributors to the fund to whom we express our thanks:

Marvin D. CarmonyStuart DavisSteven L. FranksBrian D. Joseph

Alumni News

Jessica Barlow (Ph.D., 1997) has had a ten-ure track position in the Department of Com-munication Disorders at San Diego StateUniversity for the past two years.

Fred Cummins (Ph.D., 1997) has left hispostdoctoral fellowship ip Lugano, Switzer-land and now has the equivalent of a tenure-track line in the Department of ComputerScience in his home city at University Col-lege, Dublin.

Debra Hardison (Ph.D., 1998) recently ac-cepted a tenure-track position in applied lin-guistics in the Department of English atMichigan State University.

Penny K. Hoback (formally Crawford) re-ceived her undergraduate degree in 1987.She recently wrote the department to say thather training in linguistics has since led herto Harvard Law School and a successful lawpractice in Indianapolis. More recently, shehas been accepted to enter the FBI academyin Quantico, Va. “You never know where lin-guistics can lead you!” she wrote in her let-ter.

Mai Kuha (Ph.D., 1999) defended her dis-sertation last winter and is now teaching lin-guistics at Ball State University.

Marta Ortega (Ph.D., 1997) received apost-doc at the University College, London,working on intelligibility enhancement sys-tems.

Catherine Rogers (Ph.D. 1998) has taken atenure-track position in the Department ofCommunication Sciences and Disorders atthe University of South Florida. She hadbeen previously on a postdoc at the OhioState University.

Donald Salting (Ph.D., 1998) is workingin academic administration at the Universityof Montana and is also teaching part-timethere in the linguistics department.

Seung Hoon Shin (Ph.D., 1997) nowteaches in the Division of Foreign Languagesat Dongseo University in Pusan, Korea.

Keiichi Tajima (Ph.D., 1998) defended hisdissertation last fall. Soon after, he receiveda post-doctoral fellowship to do research ata hi-tech research company in Kyoto, thelargest speech-related research complex inJapan.

Joerg Tiede (Ph.D., 1999) defended his dis-sertation this summer in linguistics and cog-nitive science and has accepted a tenure-trackposition in computer science at IllinoisWesleyan University.

Robert Westmoreland (Ph.D., 1999) isworking for Volt Electronics near Seattle,doing work involving natural language pro-cessing.

Elizabeth Winkler received her Ph.D. de-gree last spring and accepted a tenure-trackposition teaching linguistics in the Depart-ment of English at Columbus College inGeorgia.

Yi Yuan (Ph.D., 1998) currently holds a fac-ulty position at the National University ofSingapore.

Bushra Zawaydeh graduated last spring andis currently working at Lernout & Hauspie,probably the largest company buildingspeech recognition systems in the world. Shehas also published “Gradient uvularizationspread in Ammani-Jordanian Arabic” in Per-spectives on Arabic Linguistics XI (eds. MEid and E. Benmamoun), John Benjamins.

Lakshmi de Zoysa, a 1964 Fulbright scholarwho completed her M.A. here, was recentlymade an MBE in Britain’s Queen’s NewYears Honours. As a part of the award, shemet with British Prime Minister Tony Blair.She has held a number of academic and pro-fessional positions in the U.S. and England.

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LinguisticsLx at Indiana University

Ph.D.s awarded

Mai Kuha, “The Influence of Inter-action and Instructions on Speech ActData” (Director: Beverly Hartford)

Maureen Bek-Ng Le, “Downdrifts,Catathesis, and Focus in Teochew Chi-nese Intonation” (Director: Kennethde Jong)

Keiichi Tajima, “Speech Rhythm ofEnglish and Japanese: Experiments inSpeech Cycling” (Director: Kennethde Jong)

Terese Thonus, “What Makes a Writ-ing Tutorial Successful: An Analysisof Linguistic Variables and SocialContent” (Director: Albert Valdman)

Hans-Joerg Tiede, “Deductive Sys-tems and Grammars” (Directors:Lawrence Moss and David McCarty)

M.A.s awarded

Heather AndersonDeborah Felkins BurlesonLeslie Anne Pereira GabrieleTiffany Lynne KershnerAe-Ryung KimEun-hee LeeMinkyung M. LeeLaura Wilbur McGarrityKyoto NagaoDanielle A. NewcomMikael A. ThompsonHae-Kyung Song Wee

Robert Ralph Westmoreland, “Informa-tion and Intonation in Natural LanguageModality” (Director: Alice ter Meulen)

Bushra Adnan Zawaydeh, “The Phoneticsand Phonology of Gutturals in Arabic”(Director: Stuart Davis and Ken de Jong)

B.A.s awarded

Amy Michelle BakerLaura Elizabeth HosfeldJennifer Lynn McCormickMichele Beth PojmanKerrie A. Vanderlugt