Chomsky and Labov to speak at Penn Linguistics Conference

The University of Pennsylvania's Department of Linguistics is holding the 41st Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society from October 22 to 24, 2010. The focus is how human language is situated in the brain and in the world, and how it changes over time.


Speaking at the conference will be two giants of the linguistics field: Penn alum Noam Chomsky, a professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and William Labov, professor of linguistics at Penn, who first came to the University in 1971.

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