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The Department of LinguisticsThe LSA Executive Committee voted to award the 2013 Best Paper in Language Award (for Volume 88, published in 2012) to Bruce Hayes, Colin Wilson (Johns Hopkins) and Anne Shisko for their jointly-authored paper “Maxent Grammars for the Metrics of Shakespeare and Milton”. They will receive the award at the LSA Annual Meeting in Boston…
Read MoreThe 5th California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics (CUSP 5) will be held at UCSD on October 27 – 28, 2012. UCLA faculty and graduate students will be well-represented: Natasha Korotkova: Evidentiality in Georgian Deniz Ozyildiz: When I is not me: A preliminary case study of shifted indexicals in Turkish Philippe Côté-Boucher: Beyond the King of…
Read MoreHilda Koopman was recently invited to the USC Undergraduate Linguistics Conference on October 12, where she introduced the audience to the the Syntactic Structure of the World’s Languages (SSWL and Terraling) database project. The slides can be found here. She will also be heading out to Cornell for the Workshop on Suspended Affixation on October…
Read MoreSun-Ah Jun will be speaking at MIT this Friday, October 26, as part of their colloquium series. Her talk is entitled: Prosodic Priming in Relative Clause Attachment. An abstract follows: In a sentence such as “Someone shot the servant of the actress who was on the balcony”, the relative clause (RC) can modify NP1 the servant (i.e.,…
Read MoreA number of graduate students and faculty will be giving practice talks for CUSP 5 which takes places next weekend at UCSD. Speaker: Various Date/Time: Friday, October 19, 1-4pm Location: Campbell 2122 Title: Various Contact: Hilda Koopman
Read MoreRobert Daland’s paper, “Variation in the input: a case study of manner class frequencies,” has appeared in the October Issue of Journal of Child Language. Congratulations Robert! In addition, Robert writes, on Open Access: I believe that Open Access is the right way to go when possible. The federal and state governments have already paid for…
Read MorePsychobabble returns with a talk by Jessica Rett, Nina Hyams and Lauren Winans. Speaker: Jessica Rett, Nina Hyams and Lauren Winans Date/Time: Tuesday, October 16, 4-6pm Location: Campbell 2122K Title: The Effects of Syntax on the Acquisition of Evidentiality Contact: Nina Hyams
Read MoreLab members will be discussing eye-tracking methodologies and the kinds of research questions eye-tracking can address. Speaker: – Date/Time: Monday, October 15, 4-6pm Location: Campbell 2101K Title: – Contact: Megha Sundara
Read MoreRuss Schuh: UCLA alumnus Alhaji Maina Gimba visited the department from mid-May to mid-July 2012 for work with Russ Schuh on a dictionary of Bole, a West Chadic language spoken in northeastern Nigeria. Gimba and Russ collaborated with another UCLA alumnus, Paul Newman, for a week at the end of June (Paul is the author…
Read MoreTwo papers by department members were published in the August 2012 issue of the Journal of the Acoustic Society of America (JASA). Jason Bishop & Pat Keating, “Perception of pitch location within a speaker’s range: fundamental frequency, voice quality and speaker sex” Pat Keating and Grace Kuo, “Comparison of speaking fundamental frequency in English and…
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