By the way, in case you hadn’t noticed this, there is a brief section of the textbook that talks about some of the concepts of functions and λ notation and so forth, that we talked about yesterday in class. We’ll go into it in some more detail in the coming classes, but in case you …
Harlan Lane (Matthews Distinguished University Professor at Northeastern University) will be speaking on Wednesday, September 27th at 5 PM http://www.psych.neu.edu/people/faculty/lane.html “Deaf Ethnicity and the Failure of Medical Ethics” Place: Stone Science Center (675 Comm. Ave.) B50 ASL/English interpreters will be present. Abstract: This address is concerned with the language minority in North America called the …
As the semester gets underway, I’m discovering that I may not have picked the best times for my office hours, particularly on Friday. I will probably be switching them to Wednesday, which is also the day before homeworks will generally be due. I think that’s going to end up being a better time both for …
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The annual Boston University Conference on Language Development will arrive in the George Sherman Union the weekend of November 3-5. Check their web page for the schedule and details.
If you register before October 20, the cost of registering for the BUCLD is a little bit cheaper, so if you know you’re going to go, it’s worth registering early. Also note that doing a certain amount of volunteer work for the conference can get you in for free, more details will be announced about …
It seems I spent a bit too much time drawing cats and mats and a bit too little time proofreading on Homework 1. I was just trying to write up a key, and it turns out that Part 3 is wrong in a startlingly large number of ways. My suggestion: burn the copy of Homework …
In case it wasn’t super-clear, here’s your task for Thursday explicitly: read the first chapter of the Portner textbook, and it would be good to have read it before class just so you can have whatever questions you might have ready to ask.
I have traditionally given out paper questionnaires on the first day of class, but this year I will try it this way. Your first homework assignment is to email me the answers to the following questions, especially if you haven’t been in a class of mine before. You can just copy and paste it from …
This is not much of an event. I expect to post better events as they are announced.
This is the first trivial post on the blog for CAS LX 502 (Semantics) for Fall 2006. I will be posting announcements, corrections, various things here over the course of the semester. Although it is not a full-fledged “forum”, it is possible to post comments, which I encourage you to do.1 1At least unless you’re …