The future lies in Australia

Hi all,

I hope you're enjoying your PLA activities! I saw that Elaine's CV workshop took place recently, which helped me a lot at the time. On the topic of job searching, I've talked to two outstanding researchers who are working or are about to move to (different) universities in Australia, and they both told me they were hiring there at all levels: PhD, post-doc, and junior tenure track. The working conditions sounded amazing, so if you are interested in any of the following topics, send me an email and I'll give you some more details: acquisition/language processing/phonology/phonetics/computational modeling.

Un abrazo enorme!

Alex

PLA and alumni

This is just a suggestion:

PLA might consider having PLA alumni as associate members -- as the constitution allows it.

Additionally, or in return, PLA might consider updating information about associate members. There could be some benefits:

- alumni might help 'current' PLA members for networking
- PLA community and belongingness might develop better
- associate members keep paying dues

engin

Up for Grabs

The following lonely journals don't want to lie forgotten in my office desk drawer anymore. If you'd like to free them from the prison of my neglect, they're yours for the taking.

Annual Review of Applied Linguistics (2008), no. 28, special issue on "Neurolinguistics and Cognitive Aspects of Language Processing"

Communication Monographs (2007), Vol. 74, no. 4
Communication Monographs (2008), Vol. 75, no. 1-4
Communication Monographs (2009), Vol. 76, no. 1

Language (2008), Vol. 84, no. 1-3

Otherwise they may end up in the recycling bin. Please save them from this miserable destiny.

on dissertation

i thought that we can use this blog to write our thoughts on writing dissertation. i also invite everybody to participate in and share their valuable experiences. in this way, i think, those, like me among many others, who are writing their dissertations are able to release some of their tensions :) and those, who will do it eventually, may benefit from the others' ups and downs.

Possible external speakers

Hello!
As mentioned over the last two meetings, we have to think about names of professors to invite as a guest speaker for next semester (we are too far into this fall semester to have someone over). So, why don't we think about one or two names of professors of our own field and from universities around here and post them in the blog? Can you come up with some names by next Wednesday? Then, we can select our top priorities and I will start contacting them...

Thanks!

j62 --> ling

at the kick-off, ronnie said that ling's code is now ling instead of j62. needs to be verified :)

Five Seconds of Your Time

In the interest of settling one of American English speakers' all-time favourite topics to fight over, go to this site and fill out the survey. And completely ignore that "Conclusion" bit down below it.