YALE Linguistics Department Reunion
Retrospects and Prospects
November 10 - 12, 2000
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Friday, November 10
12:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Registration
Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 119
320 York Street
2:00 pm
Tour of Haskins Laboratories
270 Crown Street
4:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Welcoming Remarks
Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 211
Susan Hockfield
Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Stephen Anderson
Chair, Yale Department of Linguistics
4:15 - 5:45 pm
Historical linguistics: The future of the past
MODERATOR
Stanley Insler '63 PhD
(Indic and Far Eastern Languages & Literatures)
Yale University
PANELISTS
Hans Henrich Hock '71 PhD
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Andrew Sihler '67 PhD
University of Wisconsin, emeritus
Stephanie Jamison '77 PhD
Harvard University
6:00 pm
Reception and dinner
Sterling Memorial Library
120 High Street
Dinner Talk On the grammar of "squat" (pg-13)
Paul Postal '63 PhD (Anthropology)
New York University
Saturday, November 11
9:00 - 10:30 am
Phonetics: Speech movements on the linguistic landscape
Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 119
MODERATOR
Louis Goldstein
Yale University
PANELISTS
Suzanne Boyce '88 PhD
University of Cincinnati
Rena Krakow '89 PhD
Temple University
Sharon Manuel '87 PhD
Emerson College and
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Elizabeth Zsiga '93 PhD
Georgetown University
10:30 - 11:00 am
Coffee break
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Why do we study "exotic" languages?
Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 119
SPEAKERS
Harold Conklin '55 PhD (Anthropology)
Yale University, emeritus
Doug Whalen '82 PhD
Haskins Laboratories and
Director, Endangered Languages Fund
12:30 - 2:00 pm
Lunch
Presidents' Room, Woolsey Hall
2:15 - 3:45 pm
Parlay-vous linguistics? Or, What can you do with a linguistics degree?
Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 119
MODERATOR
Larry Horn
Yale University
PANELISTS
Karen Baumer '96 MA
Vice President and Word Kitten, SmartText, Inc.
Renée Fleysher '92 (aka Ranya)
Actress, choreographer and belly-dancer
Ben Fortson '89
Lexicographer, Houghton-Mifflin Company
Lizanne Kaiser '99 PhD
General Magic, Inc. (a Silicon Valley dot.com)
6:00 pm
Cocktails and dinner
Peabody Museum, Great Hall
170 Whitney Avenue
Sunday, November 12
9:00 - 10:30 am
Cognitive science: The study of language as the study of the mind
Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 119
MODERATOR
Stephen Anderson
Yale University
PANELISTS
Maria Babyonyshev
Yale University
Paul Bloom
Yale University
Frank Keil
Yale University
Maria Piñango
Yale University
10:45 am - noon
Farewell brunch
Rose Alumni House
232 York Street