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Category: Conferences, Faculty, General, Graduate Students

UCLA @ CUSP 5 in San Diego

Published: October 25, 2012

The 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…

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Category: Conferences, Faculty, General, Talks

Hilda Koopman @ USC and Cornell

Published: October 25, 2012

Hilda 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…

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Category: Faculty, General, Talks

Sun-Ah Jun @ MIT

Published: October 23, 2012

Sun-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.,…

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Category: General, Graduate Students

Phonology Seminar 10/24 – Laura McPherson

Published: October 23, 2012

Laura McPherson will be presenting on his work on Dogon this week in Phonology Seminar. All are welcome! Speaker: Laura McPherson Date/Time: Wednesday, October 24, 4-6pm Location: Campbell 2122K Title: Replacive Grammatical Tone In The Dogon Languages Contact: Kie Zuraw

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Phonetics Seminar 10/22 – Sun-Ah Jun

Published: October 22, 2012

Sun-Ah Jun will be giving a talk this week in Phonetics Seminar Speaker: Sun-Ah Jun Date/Time: Monday, October 22, 4-6pm Location: Campbell 2101K Title: Prosodic Priming In Relative Clause Attachment Contact: Megha Sundara

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Category: Faculty, General, Journal Publications

Robert Daland in Journal of Child Language

Published: October 18, 2012

Robert 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…

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Category: Conferences, General, Graduate Students

Laura Kalin goes to NELS!

Published: October 16, 2012

Graduate student Laura Kalin is heading to the 43rd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society, held at CUNY this week. She’ll be giving a poster presentation entitled: Last Resort Structure Building: Agreement and Argument Licensing in Senaya

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Category: General, Graduate Students

Phonology Seminar 10/17 – Dustin Bowers

Published: October 15, 2012

Dustin Bowers will be presenting on his work on Odawa this week in Phonology Seminar. All are welcome! Speaker: Dustin Bowers Date/Time: Wednesday, October 17, 4-6pm Location: Campbell 2122K Title: Phonological restructuring in Odawa Contact: Kie Zuraw

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