General

The Old World Conference on Phonology was held in Düsseldorf at the end of February, 2017. Kie Zuraw gave an invited talk, “The Breadth of the Candidate Set,” and Isabelle Lin gave a talk entitled “Tone sequences in lexical processing in Beijing Mandarin.”

Jeff Heinz, a 2007 Ph.D. graduate of our program and now Professor of Linguistics at the University of Delaware, was awarded the LSA’s Early Career Award at January’s LSA Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas. This award recognizes scholars who earned their Ph.D. in the past ten years and have made “outstanding contributions to the field…

The department was well-represented at the Fall meeting of the ASA in Honolulu the week of Nov. 28 2016. Current and former department members (PhDs, postdocs, faculty, undergrads, visitors) attending and/or with presentations at the conference included: Ann Aly, Victoria Anderson (PhD 2000), Dani Byrd (PhD 1994),  Adam Chong,  Keith Johnson (post-doc and faculty 1990-92),…

NELS47 (North East Linguistics Society) met at UMASS Amherst this October. UCLA was well represented: Richard Stockwell gave a talk entitled “VP ellipsis with symmetrical predicates” Jesse Zymet with co-author Jeff Adler (UCSC) gave a talk entitled “Irreducible Parallelism in Process Interactions” Tim Hunter with co-author David Potter presented a talk called “Distinguishing approaches to island…

UCLA Linguistics was well-represented at this year’s Annual Meeting on Phonology at the University of Southern California. Invited talk: Bruce Hayes: Varieties of Noisy Harmonic Grammar Talk: Adam Chong: Examining the lexicon in derived-environment effects: Korean and Turkish Posters: Jeffrey Adler & Jesse Zymet: Irreducible parallelism in process interactions Eleanor Glewwe: An OT analysis of…

 Two UCLA linguistics grads presented at CUSP 9 (California Semantics and Pragmatics) that took place between Oct. 21 and 22 at UC Santa Cruz. The titles of the talks were: T. Hendrik Kim: The relevance of logophoric conditions to the interpretation of the Korean anaphor caki Daniela Čulinović :’Some’, to a degree

Speech Prosody 2016 was held this year at Boston University from May 31st through June 3rd. A number of UCLA students and graduates were in attendance to present their work. Talks: Jianjing Kuang, Yixuan Guo and Mark Liberman: Voice quality as a pitch-range indicator Posters: Rose Hurley and Jason Bishop: Prosodic and individual influences on the…

Brian Smith, who has been a lecturer in the department for the last two years, has just accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz, starting Fall 2016. We look forward to having him still on the West Coast! Congratulations Brian!

Several of our students and faculty recently presented at the Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 47). Talks: Harold Torrence: Subject oriented complementizer agreement in Ibibio John Gluckman: Taking time in Logooli Travis Major: Serial verb constructions in Ibibio Travis Major (with Philip Duncan and Mfon Udoinyang): Verb and predicate coordination in Ibibio John Gluckman…

Craig Sailor (Ph.D. 2014) recently completed a post-doctoral fellowship at U. of Groningen in the Netherlands where he work was working with Mark de Vries on an ERC funded project on Incomplete Parenthesis. In October, Craig moved across the channel to take up a two-year visiting teaching position in syntax at the University of Cambridge,…