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The Department of LinguisticsHilda Koopman writes: Please join me in congratulating Tomoko Ishizuka (PhD 2010) on the publication of her book: The Passive in Japanese: A cartographic minimalist approach. Congratulations Tomoko!
Read MoreAdam Chong will be presenting in Phonetics Seminar this week. Speaker: Adam Chong Date/Time: Monday, November 19, 4-6pm Location: Campbell 2101K Title: A preliminary model of Singaporean English intonational phonology Contact: Megha Sundara
Read MorePlease join us for Friday’s SynSem Binding MiniFest. Speaker: See below Date/Time: Friday, November 9, 2-5pm Location: Campbell 2122 Title: See below Contact: Hilda Koopman Jos Tellings “Dutch intensifier zelf and helemaal modification”. Victoria Mateu “The Clitic Binding Restriction Revisited: Evidence of Antilogophoricity in Spanish” Sadie Martin “That’s a problem: notes on binding of demonstrative…
Read MoreThe annual Boston University Conference on Language Development will take place this weekend in Boston. UCLA faculty and graduate students will be presenting two talks there. Jessica Rett, Nina Hyams & Lauren Winans, The effects of syntax on the acquisition of evidentiality Jamie White & Megha Sundara, Infant biases in the learning of phonological alternations
Read MoreGraduate student Jamie White will be one of two students receiving the Society for Language Development Student Award, sponsored by the Cognitive Science Society. This award was presented today at the annual Society for Language Development Symposium (taking place in conjunction with BUCLD) today. Congratulations Jamie!
Read MoreGraduate student Marc Garellek is a co-author, together with Zhaoyan Zhang, Jody Kreiman and Bruce Gerratt from the UCLA Department of Head & Neck Surgery, on a paper that was accepted in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Z. Zhang, J. Kreiman, B. R. Gerratt, & M. Garellek. (To appear). Acoustic and perceptual effects…
Read MoreVisitor Shigeko Shinohara and graduate student Yu Tanaka will be presenting ongoing work on White Hmong in Phonology seminar this week. Speaker: Shigeko Shinohara (Sophia University, Japan) and Yu Tanaka Date/Time: Wednesday, October 31, 4-6pm Location: Campbell 2122 Title: Coda Adaptation By The Codaless Tone Language White Hmong: Experimental Results Contact: Kie Zuraw
Read MoreJamie White will be presenting in Phonetics Seminar this week. His talk is entitled “Infant Biases In The Learning Of Phonological Alternations.” This is a practice talk for the upcoming BUCLD. Speaker: Jamie White Date/Time: Monday, October 29, 4-6pm Location: Campbell 2101K Title: Infant Biases In The Learning Of Phonological Alternations Contact: Megha Sundara
Read MoreDustin Bowers will be presenting part of his MA work at the 44th Algonquian Conference to be held at the University of Chicago this week, 25th-28th October. His talk is entitled: Phonological restructuring in Odawa.
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…
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