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The Department of LinguisticsMeaghan Fowlie gave a talk in early January at the International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics (Special session on Mathematical theories of natural language processing). The symposium took place on January 6-8 in Ft. Laurderdale, Florida. Her talk was entitled “Learning repetition and optionality”.
Read MoreJos Tellings is due to present at BLS 40 this weekend. His talk is entitled, ”Only’ and focus in Imbabura Quichua’, and is part of the special session on semantic theory in underrepresented languages.
Read MoreThe recent LSA meeting was a great chance for UCLA linguists, both present and former, to catch up. Thanks to Pat Keating for organizing the party!
Read MoreA number of UCLA linguists traded the sunny weather of LA for the freezing temperatures of Minneapolis to present at the annual meeting of the LSA. Byron Ahn & Craig Sailor, Obligatory Gaps in Non-Finite Clauses Byron Ahn, The Syntax of Phrasal Stress “Exceptions” (Poster) Laura McPherson, A maxent model of tone-tune association in Tommo…
Read MoreNatasha Korotkova recently presented at UIL OTS at Utrecht University. Her talk is entitled: How to embed evidentials.
Read MoreLaura McPherson presented at the Annual International Morphology Meeting at UCSD this past weekend. Her talk was entitled Phrasal Construction Morphology: the case of Dogon replacive tone.
Read MoreBoth Lauren Winans and Ed Keenan presented at the recent Workshop on Semantic Variation at the University of Chicago. Ed Keenan was an invited speaker along with department alumnus, Ivano Caponigro (Ph.D. 03). Lauren Winans: Disjunction in Egyptian Arabic Ed Keenan: Function-Interpretation Principle
Read MoreThe annual Boston University Conference of Language Development took place recently (Nov 1 – 3). UCLA was well represented by a number of talks and posters: 1) Jamie White (Ph.D. 13, now at University of Ottawa): Role of perceptual similarity in the acquisition of phonological alternations: A biased Maximum Entropy learning model 2) Megha Sundara,…
Read More————————————————————————————————- UCLA Linguists At The 2013 LSA Linguistic Institute (Also posted on Department’s news page) Pat Keating writes: The department was well-represented at the month-long Institute in Ann Arbor this past summer. Three courses were taught by current department members: “Quantitative and Computational Phonology” by Bruce Hayes, “Articulatory Phonetics” by Pat Keating, and “Language Typology”…
Read MoreThe once-every-five years International Congress of Linguists is currently taking place in Geneva. A number of UCLA linguists (faculty, graduate students and alumni) will be presenting their work. Byron Ahn: “Universality and Subject-Oriented Reflexivity” Isabelle Charnavel (Ph.D. 2012): “A Unified Analysis of Iddi Terms (terms expressing identity and difference) based on French data (même ‘same’,…
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