UTASCILT 13 (2005)

Dates & Location

UTASCILT 13 is October 27-28, 2005, in the UT Arlington University Center, Rio Grande Ballroom.

Purpose

The University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics & TESOL is a student-led conference specifically designed to give graduate students a chance to present their original research. This is a great opportunity to join students from across America and around the world to present research on language.

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Larry Hyman received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1972. Except for a two-year leave with a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science (U.C. Berkeley, 1973-1975), he taught at the University of Southern California from 1971 to 1988. He then went to Berkeley's Department of Linguistics in 1988, which he chaired from 1991 to 2002. He has worked extensively on phonological theory and other aspects of language structure — particularly as concerns the history and description of the Niger-Congo languages of Africa, especially Bantu. He has published several books and numerous theoretical articles in such journals as Language, Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Phonology, Studies in African Linguistics and Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. His current interests center around phonological theory and the comparative and historical study of the Bantu language family (of about 500 languages) for which he founded the Comparative Bantu On-Line Dictionary (CBOLD), with funding from the National Science Foundation and in collaboration with the Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (CNRS/Université Lyon2). He also has had a grant from the France-Berkeley Fund and spent his 1995-96 sabbatical in the C.N.R.S. Laboratory "Dynamique du Langage" in Lyon, France.

Dr. Hyman's topic is "Tone, Stress, and Accent: Or, Why Is It So Hard to Do Prosodic Typology?"

Conference Schedule

Take a look at the schedule for UTASCILT 13 (2005).

Yumi Nakamura Prize in Linguistics

The Yumi Nakamura Prize in Linguistics has been established to honor the memory of Ms. Yumi Nakamura, a Linguistics student who died at UT Arlington in January 2000. Her family and the Program in Linguistics have contributed funds to be awarded to the best student papers at the UTA Student Conference in Linguistics. A maximum of 3 prizes will be awarded in amounts up to $400 USD.

All students presenting papers are eligible to be included in the competition for the prize. The prize will be awarded at the Friday evening session.

Read more about the Yumi Nakamura Memorial Endowment at the department's Giving Opportunities page.

Conference Flyers

You can download the four promotional flyers (PDFs) here: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th.