Hi everyone! This is the LingSUN newsletter for this week. Next meeting: Wednesday 3 September, 4.00pm, Room 3A (NOTE DIFFERENT ROOM) Auchmuty library Documentary: "The Boy With The Incredible Brain” Reminder: Linguistic Seminar Series, Tuesday 2 September, 4.15pm, Senta Taft-Hendry Museum, The University Gallery Speaker: Roger Blench (Kay Williamson Educational Foundation, Cambridge UK) Topic: Downstep, downdrift, floating tones: why are Africa’s tone languages so different from those in East and SE Asia? ——— LingSUN - Linguistic Society at the University of Newcastle (Australia) You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the LingSUN mailing list. To reply to the mailing list, just reply to this email. If you wish to unsubscribe, send an email to lingsun-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the object line. lingsun.altervista.org www.facebook.com/linguisticsocietyuon twitter.com/LingSUN7