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The Department of LinguisticsPhonetics Seminar returns on 10/08 in 2101K Campbell Hall from 4pm – 6pm with a talk by Marc Garellek. Speaker: Marc Garellek Date/Time: Monday, October 8, 4-6pm Location: Campbell 2101K Title: Perception of glottal stops in creak 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 MoreGrace Kuo represented the department at InterSpeech 2012 in Portland in September. Her talk was entitled “Perceived prosodic boundaries in Taiwanese and their acoustic correlates”
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
Read MoreWe are proud to announce the department’s flagship colloquium schedule for the year 2012-2013. Fall quarter: November 2 — Sharon Rose, UCSD November 30 — Dan Swingley, UPenn December 7 — Gabriela Caballero, UCSD Winter Quarter: January 11 — Karen Emmorey, San Diego State January 18 — Jeffrey Lidz, University of Maryland January 25 —…
Read MoreDate/Time: Friday, October 5, 2-4pm Location: Campbell 2122 Contact: Hilda Koopman From Hilda Koopman: Hello Everyone, The first meeting of the Fall 2012 Syntax and Semantics seminar, aka as SynSem, will be on Friday October 5th (in the conference room (Campbell Hall, 2122) at the usual time (2-4pm)). If you would like to present your…
Read MorePhonology Seminar returns on 10/03 in Campbell 2122 from 4pm – 6pm with a talk by visiting scholar Dr. Myfany Turpin (University of Queensland). Speaker: Myfany Turpin (University of Queensland, Australia) Date/Time: Wednesday, October 3, 4-6pm. Location: Campbell 2122A Title: The metrics of Kaytetye rain songs, a ceremonial repertory of Central Australia Contact: Kie Zuraw…
Read MoreUCLA extends a warm welcome to the new class of graduate students! Margit Bowler – Reed College Philippe Cote-Boucher – Concordia University, Canada John Gluckman – University of Pennsylvania Margaret Kroll – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Eun Hwa Lee – Indiana University, Bloomington Nicoletta Loccioni – University of Siena, Italy Jesse Zymet – Rutgers…
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