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THE TWENTY-SEVENTH LACUS FORUM
held at
RICE UNIVERSITY, Houston, Texas
July 25-29, 2000
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David McNeill, University of Chicago
Marianne Mithun, University of California, Santa Barbara
Andrew Papanicolaou, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston
Michel Paradis, McGill University
Sherman Wilcox, University of New Mexico
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Automated Production and Recognition of Speech: Problems and Solutions
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The annual Presidents' Predoctoral Prize was awarded to Mark Kaunisto, University of Tampere, Finland, for his paper 'Angels, Heroes, and Majesties: The Aspect of Nobility in the History of English Adjectives in -ic and -ical'. Commendation in this competition was awarded to Anna Feldman, Ohio State University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, for 'ze: Codification of "Hearer-Old" Information', and to Shaojun Ji, University of Alberta, for 'Episode Transitions and their Linguistic Encodings: A Cross-Linguistic Study'.
The annual Presidents' Postdoctoral Prize (for young untenured scholars) was awarded to Stefan Gries, Syddansk Universitet, Denmark, for his paper 'Particle Placement in English: A Multifactorial Investigation'.
Selected papers presented at the meeting will be published, with appropriate revisions, in LACUS Forum XXVII.
Rice University is located in the heart of Houston, Texas, bounded on the north and south by attractive residential areas, on the west by the Rice Village, which contains a wide variety of stores and restaurants, and on the east by Hermann Park (with a large zoo) and the Texas Medical Center, the world's largest medical center, which includes two leading medical schools. Located nearby are the Houston Museum of Natural Science, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and a museum of science and medicine. A short distance away is the renowned Menil Collection.
For information on the University, see http://riceinfo.rice.edu
For information on the Linguistics Department, see http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~ling/
The largest city in Texas and the fourth largest in the United States, Houston boasts many fine restaurants, which offer ethnically diverse cuisines at reasonable prices. Several good ones are located in the Rice Village, close to the university. Near Houston is NASA, which provides many fine exhibits related to the American space program.
