{"id":2852,"date":"2011-09-06T05:00:16","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T09:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=2852"},"modified":"2011-09-05T14:17:13","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T18:17:13","slug":"visiting-scholars-and-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2011\/09\/06\/visiting-scholars-and-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Scholars and Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We extend our warmest welcome to the new (and returning) visiting scholars and students to the department:<\/p>\n<p><i>New Visiting Scholars<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Khaled Al-Asbahi<\/b>: Sana&#8217;a University.\n<li><b>Toni Borowsky<\/b>: Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney. <br clear='none'\/>\nToni&#8217;s research interests are in phonology and phonetics. She is working on language games, and syllable structure related matters.<\/p>\n<li><b>Barbara Citko<\/b>: Assistant Professor, University of Washington-Seattle. <br clear='none'\/>\nBarbara&#8217;s research interests are: syntactic theory, syntax of relative clauses, wh-questions, multidominance, syntax of Slavic languages (Polish in particular).<\/p>\n<li><b>Young-Sun Kim<\/b>: Hanshin University. \n<\/ul>\n<\/p>\n<p><i>New Visiting Students<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Laura McPherson<\/b>: 3rd year PhD student at UCLA.<br clear='none'\/>\nHer primary research interests are phonology and morphology, particularly grammatical tone and other areas of phonology-syntax interface. She is currently working on a reference grammar of Tommo So, a Dogon language of Mali.<\/p>\n<li><b>Jeffrey Watumull<\/b>: PhD student at the University of Cambridge. <br clear='none'\/>\nJeffrey&#8217;s research interests are &#8220;in general, mathematical biolinguistics&#8212;a research program to discover the mathematical properties universal to human syntax and their possible homologues\/analogues in nonhuman animals; in particular, revamping the Chomsky Hierarchy in terms of strong generative capacity and formulating optimal decision procedures for traversing parameter hierarchies.&#8221;<\/ul><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We extend our warmest welcome to the new (and returning) visiting scholars and students to the department: New Visiting Scholars Khaled Al-Asbahi: Sana&#8217;a University. Toni Borowsky: Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney. Toni&#8217;s research interests are in phonology and phonetics. She is working on language games, and syllable structure related matters. Barbara Citko: Assistant Professor, University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2852"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2890,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions\/2890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}