Margaret Jacks Hall
Department Trivia
The Major
Stanford Linguists
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100

The name of the main conference room for the department.

What is the Greenberg Room?

100

This is the name of the department's online newsletter.

What is the Sesquipedalian?

100

This person is the Undergraduate Advisor.

Who is Arto Anttila?

100

This current faculty member is a PhD alum advised by Penny Eckert.

Who is Rob Podesva?

100

In politeness theory, this is the desire to act uninhibited.

What is negative face?

100

This theory of legal interpretation seeks to identify the "ordinary meaning" of statues.

What is textualism?

200

This lab is located in the basement right next to the main MJH staircase.

What is the ALPs Lab?

200

This Linguistics faculty member has six dogs and two cats.

Who is Nandi Sims?

200

This person is the Student Services Manager.

Who is Regina Miller?

200

This faculty member co-wrote an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in the case of Campos-Chaves v. Garland?

Who is Cleo Condoravdi?

200

Historical linguists often regard sharing of these features as the best evidence of a shared ancestor for two languages.

What is paradigmatic morphology?

200

This index measures the number of morphemes per word.

What is the index of synthesis?

300

The name of the small conference room located in the Linguistics main office.

What is the Sag Room?

300

This Linguistics faculty member actually has a degree in Electrical Engineering.

Who is Beth Levin?

300

This person is the current Undergraduate Mentor.

Who is Jiayi Lu?

300

This PhD alum won the Language Best Paper Award in 2016 for collaborative work with John Rickford.

Who is Sharese King?

300

Vida-Castro (2023) studies a change in progress in this dialect region of Spain.

What is Andalusian?

300
In Austin et al.'s (2022) work, this was a primary cause of children dropping out of the studies.

What is "parent picked them up early"?

400

Linguistics shares the MJH basement with this IDP.

What is Symbolic Systems?

400

This faculty member has been on the Stanford faculty the longest of any current faculty member.

Who is Beth Levin?

400

Students wishing to pursue honors must apply by the end of this quarter.

Spring quarter of the junior year.

400

This recent PhD alum is now a professor in the Stanford Graduate School of Education.

Who is Dora Demszky?

400

European languages tend to show this pattern of morphological marking.

What is dependent marking?

400

In the terms of Liu and Allen 2014, this is the Japanese name for "discernment of social hierarchy".

What is "wakimae"?

500

Linguistics shares the MJH basement with a collection from this department.

What is Archeology?

500

This is the number of current and former Linguistics faculty who have won the MacArthur "Genius" Award.

What is 2? (Dan Jurafsky and Shirley Brice Heath)

500

This is the minimum number of units required for the major.

What is 60?

500

This Linguistics faculty member won the American Book Award in 2000. 

Who is John Rickford?

500

This rule of jurisprudence says to favor the defendant in cases of ambiguity.

What is the rule of lenity?

500

In the first perception study of Vida-Castro (2023), these two words were the only ones that participants confused.

What is "castillo" and "cachillo"?

600

The humanitarian and philanthropist Margaret Jacks was born in this California city.

What is Monterey?
600

The departmentalization of Stanford Linguistics happened in this year.

What is 1975?

600

The winner of the 2023 John Rickford Prize.

Who is Calico Ducheneaux?

600

This Linguistics faculty member speaks a famously non-context-free language.

Who is Judith Degen?

600

This scholar is Whitman's nemesis in the pJR/pK debate.

Who is Alexander Vovin?

600

In the McCullough et al. (2019) studies, even the youngest participant could distinguish these two regional dialects.

What is Southern and New England?

700

The secret MJH vending machine is located on this floor of the building.

What is the third floor?
700

The department granted its first PhD degrees in this decade.

What is the 1960s?

700

The winner of the 2023 Golden Medal.

Who is Amir Zur?

700

This Linguistics faculty member's PhD thesis is on ergative case marking.

Who is Chris Manning?

700

This Stanford PhD alum's experimental work was featured in Tobia et al.'s (2023) paper on "Triangulating ordinary meaning".

Who is Masoud Jasbi?

700

Mack and Munson (2012) use this label for the /s/ variants that are actually associated with gay men's speech in prior work.

What is "negative skewed"?

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