Gianfranco Norelli: Il segreto di Mussolini - documentary and discussion

May 9, 2012, 5:30 PM. Classroom Unit 2 Director Gianfranco Norelli will present and discuss the documentary, Il segreto di Mussolini (2005) Reception will follow at the Cowell Provost's House

UCSC language students to present International Playhouse

UCSC will present International Playhouse XIII--an annual program of fully-staged short theater pieces by students in the Language Program May 16-19, featuring works in French, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish, with English super-titles.

The French c'est-cleft: Empirical studies in the pragmatics of a syntactic structure

This talk examines the underpinnings of sentence structure variation and how the factors that govern this variation are manifested in French. Specifically, I examine one structure known as the c'est-cleft, and present results from three empirical studies...

Bryan Donaldson: Interrogatives in near-native French

Robert Reichle: "Sprites and rules: The brain signatures of gameplay and second language processing"

Over the last decade the event-related potential (ERP) technique has revealed that second language (L2) proficiency and other learner variables can correlate with nativelike electrophysiological brain signatures for the processing of L2 morpho-syntactic violations...

International Playhouse, 2012

THEATER PIECES in EIGHT languages with ENGLISH SUPERTITLES

Patricia Lunn: In the Defense of Linguistic Grammar

This presentation discusses what the content of grammar lessons should be and argues that the simplicity and descriptive adequacy of linguistic grammar should be recognized and exploited.

Life in Senegal / La Vie sénégalaise

French lecturer, Angela Elsey will take you through the daily life in Senegal through photos and video clips.