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The Department of LinguisticsSun-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…
Read MoreLabPhon 13 took place this year in Stuttgart, Germany, from July 27-29. UCLA was very well-represented: Bruce Hayes, The role of computational modeling in the study of sound structure (invited talk) Marc Garellek, “A reanalysis of glottal stops and glottalization in English” (poster) Marc Garellek, “Importance of coding the Utterance domain in prosodic transcriptions” (poster…
Read MoreGLOW in Asia IX took place at Mie University, Japan, from September 4 to 6. A few UCLA linguists delivered talks there. 1. Yu Tanaka and Jun Yashima: Deliberate Markedness in Japanese Hypocristics. 2. Isabelle Charnavel (now at Harvard) & Dominique Sportiche: Binding Domain for Condition A
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