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The Department of LinguisticsSun-Ah Jun will be reporting on the Intonation Workshop she attended this past weekend in Phonetics Seminar this week. Speaker: Sun-Ah Jun Date/Time: Monday, January 14, 4-6pm Location: Campbell 2101K Title: What to Label and How to Build a ToBI Database Contact: Pat Keating
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 MoreDear Friends, There will be a Memorial Service for Professor Robert Stockwell, the founder of the UCLA Linguistics Department, on Friday, Dec. 7, 2012. It will be held in Royce 314, from 4:00-6:00 pm. Please mark your calendars. Details can be found here: http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/talksaevents/news/239-professor-robert-stockwell-memorial-service.html
Read MoreEd Keenan will give us a special Math Seminar next Monday, December 3rd at 4pm in Bunche 2150. His talk is entitled: Individuals Explained Away. All are welcome! Speaker: Ed Keenan Date/Time: Monday, December 3rd, 4-6pm Location: Bunche 2150 Title: Individuals Explained Away Contact: Ed Stabler Abstract: We motivate linguistically an extensional type theory for…
Read MoreA message from Department Chair, Anoop Mahajan: Dear Faculty, Grad Students and Ling Staff, I am sad to inform you that Paul Schachter passed away on Monday. I just had a brief conversation with his step daughter and she told me that he passed away unexpectedly though peacefully. Grad students and relatively new faculty –…
Read MoreMegha Sundara and Victoria Mateu will be presenting in Psychobabble this week. Speaker: Megha Sundara & Victoria Mateu Date/Time: Tuesday, November 27, 4-6pm Location: Campbell 2122K Title: A Cross-Linguistic Investigation of Word Segmentation by Monolingual English-learning Infants Contact: Nina Hyams
Read MoreCanan Ipek from USC and Sun-Ah Jun will be presenting in Phonetics Seminar this week. Speaker: Canan Ipek (USC) and Sun-Ah Jun Date/Time: Monday, November 26, 4-6pm Location: Campbell 2101K Title: Intonational Phonology of Turkish Contact: Megha Sundara
Read More**Please note! Since there is no colloquium, this Friday’s SynSem seminar will exceptionally meet from 11-1 in the conference room. ** Hilda Koopman will be presenting a (pre)practice talk for a keynote address (RALFe, Paris, November 28). Speaker: Hilda Koopman Date/Time: Friday, November 16, 11-1pm Location: Campbell 2122 Title: The dance of subjects and objects,…
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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