Big 10 Mayfest

1 Mayfest Welcome to Mayfest, a two-day workshop dedicated to language. Mayfest brings together leading researchers from a variety of disciplines and perspectives to present their work in relation to the theme, leaving ample time for active discussion to foster new insights and collaboration. This year, the University of Maryland, College Park, o cially joined the Committee on Institutional Collaboration (CIC) as a part of its broader integration with the Big Ten. Beyond the football conference a liation, our schools also share expertise in language science. Nearly every member institution o ers a department or program in linguistics, representing a wide variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, and CIC schools' programs in speech-language pathology and other communicative disorders are among the best in the nation. We would like to draw on this wealth of experience and knowledge for Mayfest 2014, which we hope will provide a springboard for collaboration between language scientists across the CIC institutions. Mayfest is supported by the Departments of Linguistics and Hearing and Speech Sciences, the Program for Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, and the Maryland Language Science Center. This event is funded in part by your Graduate Student Activities fee and is open to all graduate students at the University of Maryland. We are happy to have you all here.