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The Department of LinguisticsNina Hyams is speaking at UNC-Chapel Hill this weekend (April 13). She is the keynote speaker at the UNC-Chapel Hill Spring Colloquium. Her talk is entitled: The acquisition of syntactically encoded evidentiality (based on joint work with Jessica Rett and Lauren Winans)
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 MoreBruce Hayes and Jamie White’s paper, “Phonological naturalness and phonotactic learning,” has appeared in the most recent issue of Linguistic Inquiry! Congrats!
Read MoreMarc Garellek, Patricia Keating, Christina Esposito (PhD 2006; now at Macalester College) & Jody Kreiman (UCLA Head/Neck Surgery) have a paper published in the most recent issue of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. It is entitled: Voice quality and tone identification in White Hmong. Congratulations to all!
Read MorePam Munro will be speaking in AIS this week. Speaker: Pam Munro Date/Time: Tuesday, January 15, 1-2pm Location: Campbell 2122 Title: TBA Contact: Pam Munro
Read MoreSun-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…
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