Newsletter - Cosmopolitan babble Newsletter of the University of South Carolina Linguistics Program Vol. Off to a Busy Start Awards and Honors Three of our fellow students, Agnes Bolonyai, Joe Price, and Richard Hallett, presented papers at the now Annual Graduate Student Day on April 1 st . Larry LaFond is this year s recipient of the Bruce L. Pearson Award, which was established in 1997.
Students submit abstracts which are judged anonymously by a faculty committee.
Larry, a first year Ph. D. student specializing in discourse analysis and second language acquisition, was honored at the Graduate Student Day Luncheon. In July, Dr. Carol Myers-Scotton will be teaching a course on language contact phenomena at the Australian Linguistics Institute in Brisbane. Dr. Song has accepted a position at Georgetown University beginning in the fall. Colloquia Series January 31. The role of intonation in second language fluency .