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The Department of LinguisticsGraduate student Laura Kalin is heading to the 43rd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society, held at CUNY this week. She’ll be giving a poster presentation entitled: Last Resort Structure Building: Agreement and Argument Licensing in Senaya
Read MoreGraduate student Marc Garellek has been awarded second place for his abstract, “Prominence vs. phrase-initial strengthening of voice quality,” to be presented at the LSA 2013 Annual Meeting in Boston. The award will be presented at a special ceremony on Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013, immediately preceding the Presidential Address. Congratulations Marc!
Read MoreRuss Schuh: UCLA alumnus Alhaji Maina Gimba visited the department from mid-May to mid-July 2012 for work with Russ Schuh on a dictionary of Bole, a West Chadic language spoken in northeastern Nigeria. Gimba and Russ collaborated with another UCLA alumnus, Paul Newman, for a week at the end of June (Paul is the author…
Read MoreGrace Kuo represented the department at InterSpeech 2012 in Portland in September. Her talk was entitled “Perceived prosodic boundaries in Taiwanese and their acoustic correlates”
Read MoreLabPhon 13 took place this year in Stuttgart, Germany, from July 27-29. UCLA was very well-represented: Bruce Hayes, The role of computational modeling in the study of sound structure (invited talk) Marc Garellek, “A reanalysis of glottal stops and glottalization in English” (poster) Marc Garellek, “Importance of coding the Utterance domain in prosodic transcriptions” (poster…
Read MoreGLOW in Asia IX took place at Mie University, Japan, from September 4 to 6. A few UCLA linguists delivered talks there. 1. Yu Tanaka and Jun Yashima: Deliberate Markedness in Japanese Hypocristics. 2. Isabelle Charnavel (now at Harvard) & Dominique Sportiche: Binding Domain for Condition A
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