{"id":7444,"date":"2015-09-08T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T09:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=7444"},"modified":"2015-09-08T19:28:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T23:28:46","slug":"new-visiting-scholars-and-visiting-students-for-fall-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2015\/09\/08\/new-visiting-scholars-and-visiting-students-for-fall-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"New Visiting Scholars and Visiting Students for Fall 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Visiting students<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Keny Chatain<\/strong> (\u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure (ENS)) works in Syntax and Semantics. He says: &#8220;I&#8217;m interested in formal descriptions of tense, mood and aspect of verbal systems across languages.&#8221;\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chingting Chuang<\/strong> (National Tsing Hua University)&#8217;s research interests include Phonetically-based phonology, language variation, language change, prosody. She says: &#8220;My research has primarily focused on prosodic manifestations of phonetic variation and language change. I have chosen Penang Hokkien, an understudied dialect of Southern Min Chinese spoken in Northwestern Peninsular Malaysia, as the language under investigation.&#8221;\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/york.academia.edu\/MariaMargaritaMakri\">Maria-Margarita Makri<\/a><\/strong> (University of York) says: &#8220;My research mainly focuses on the syntax and semantics of comparative constructions.&#8221; Interests and Research Description: Semantics, Syntax, Language Acquisition.\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tiaoyuan Mao<\/strong> (Beijing Foreign Studies University) says: &#8220;The object of my research is to propose a unified explanation for Chinese English learners\u0092 morpho-syntactic development of C on the basis of the feature assembly theory (Chomsky 2001, 2008) and Feature Reassembly Hypothesis (Lardiere 2008, 2009). If possible, a minor revision of the feature assembly theory would be carried out in terms of improvement of the acquisition theory for the second language acquisition.&#8221;\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Visiting scholars<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/james-gair\/46\/616\/223\">James Gair<\/a><\/strong>(Cornell University)\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mingqiong (Joan) Luo<\/strong> (Shanghai International Studies University)\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.human.cornell.edu\/bio.cfm?netid=bcl4\">Barbara Lust<\/a><\/strong> (Cornell University)\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/prittypatelgrosz.wordpress.com\/\">Pritty Patel-Grosz<\/a><\/strong> (Eberhard Karls Universit\u00e4t T\u00fcbingen)\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ufvjm.academia.edu\/BrunaPereira\/\">Bruna Pereira<\/a><\/strong> (Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri)\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=&#8221;http:\/\/brasilia.academia.edu\/EloisaPilati>Eloisa Pilati<\/a><\/strong> (University of Brasilia)\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp\/~ktamaoka\/en\/\">Katsuo Tamaoka<\/a><\/strong> (Nagoya University)\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.berkeley.edu\/person\/297\">Nicholas Baier<\/a><\/strong> (UC Berkeley)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visiting students Keny Chatain (\u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure (ENS)) works in Syntax and Semantics. He says: &#8220;I&#8217;m interested in formal descriptions of tense, mood and aspect of verbal systems across languages.&#8221; Chingting Chuang (National Tsing Hua University)&#8217;s research interests include Phonetically-based phonology, language variation, language change, prosody. 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