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The Department of LinguisticsMeaghan Fowlie recently presented at the 29th Northwest Linguistics Conference held last weekend at University of British Columbia. Her talk was entitled “Minimalist Grammars with Adjunction”.
Read MoreTwo UCLA linguists will be presenting at the upcoming meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society (April 18-20). Dustin Bowers: Phonological Restructuring in Odawa Thomas Graf: The Syntactic Algebra of Adjuncts
Read MoreVisiting student Tristan Thommen and alumnus Vincent Homer gave a talk recently at 14th Szklarska Poreba Workshop in Poland. Their talk was entitled: “Remarks on a Language with no Overt Negation”
Read MoreLaura McPherson and Sadie Martin will be giving talks at the upcoming Georgetown University Round Table / 44th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Laura’s talk is entitled: “Tonal competition in the Dogon DP: a constraint-based approach to conflict resolution” Sadie’s talk is entitled: “The “Instrumental” Construction in Twi”
Read MoreJos Tellings will be presenting at BLS 39 at Berkeley this coming weekend. His talk is entitled: “Clitics and voicing in Dutch.” His abstract is as follows: Abstract: In Dutch, the process of clitic attachment to verbal stems interacts with voicing processes such as Final Devoicing and voice assimilation. In addition free variation is attested…
Read MoreWCCFL 31 is being held at Arizona State University this weekend. UCLA linguists will be giving a number of talks there: Craig Sailor and Gary Thoms (U. Edinburgh). On the non-existence of non-constituent coordination and non-constituent ellipsis Sun-Ah Jun and Jason Bishop. Implicit phrasing and prominence influence relative clause attachment: evidence from structural priming Martin…
Read MoreMeaghan Fowlie was recently in the Netherlands where she presented a poster entitled “Minimalist Grammars with Adjunction” at the 23rd meeting of Computational Linguistics In the Netherlands (CLIN 23) at the University of Twente.
Read MoreSun-Ah Jun heads to New York this weekend to speak at ‘Data Issues in Prosody Research’, a workshop to be held in Columbia University, NY, in January 11-12. Her talk is entitled: What to Label and How to Build a ToBI Database.
Read MoreProfessor Edward L. Keenan and graduate student Laura Kalin will be co-teaching a course on syntactic typology at this year’s Linguistics Institute at the University of Michigan, June 24 — July 19. Keenan will focus on typological variation and Kalin on integrating this variation within current syntactic theory.
Read MoreThe annual Boston University Conference on Language Development will take place this weekend in Boston. UCLA faculty and graduate students will be presenting two talks there. Jessica Rett, Nina Hyams & Lauren Winans, The effects of syntax on the acquisition of evidentiality Jamie White & Megha Sundara, Infant biases in the learning of phonological alternations
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