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The Department of LinguisticsPat Keating presented a poster entitled “Acoustic measures of falsetto voice” at the Spring meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Providence this week.
Read MoreIsabelle Charnavel (Ph.D. 2012) and Victoria Mateu will be giving a talk at LSRL 44 in Canada on: Clitic Coreference Restrictions and Antilogophoricity in French and Spanish.
Read MoreAt the April conference of the Southwest Association for Language Learning Technology, Barbara Blankenship (Ph.D. 1997) presented a talk on digital materials for language learning. Blankenship coordinates the UCLA Language Materials Project, a website with resources for teachers of less commonly taught languages. The site offers a bibliography of over 9000 materials for teaching 150…
Read MoreUCLA linguists (both present and former) will be giving talks at this year’s meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS 50). Byron Ahn: “Reflexes of Reflexivity: Locality and the Interfaces” Thomas Graf (Ph.D., 2013; now at Stony Brook): “Feature Geometry and the Person Case Constraint: An Algebraic Link” Additionally, Bruce Hayes will be delivering an…
Read MoreLaura McPherson will be giving a couple of talks at Berkeley on April 10. She will be giving a guest lecture in the Berkeley graduate morphology class on her work on variable vowel harmony in Tommo So. She will also be giving a talk at the Berkeley music-language working group: “Tone-tune association in Tommo So…
Read MoreIsabelle Charnavel (Ph.D. 2012) and Victoria Mateu recently gave a talk at GLOW 37 in Brussels. The talk was entitled: The Clitic Binding Restriction Revisited: Evidence for Antilogophoricity.
Read MoreSun-Ah Jun presented a poster, co-authored with alumnus, Jason Bishop (Ph.D. 2013, now at CUNY Staten Island), at the recent CUNY Sentence Processing Conference held at Ohio State (March 13-15). Their poster was entitled: Priming of implicit prosody and individual differences
Read MoreUCLA was well-represented at the most recent WCCFL across town at USC. Both present and former students were well-represented. Yael Sharvit gave one of the of the invited talks. Her talk was entitled “Non-definite Definites”. Jesse Zymet: “Distance-Based Decay in Long-Distance Phonological Processes” Canan Ipek (USC) & Sun-Ah Jun: “Marking prosodic prominence in Turkish” Isabelle Charnavel (Ph.D. 2012, now…
Read MoreMeaghan 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.
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