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The Department of LinguisticsRuss 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 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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