Graduate Students

Category: General, Graduate Students

Phonology Seminar 10/10 – Yu Tanaka & Jun Yashima

Published: October 8, 2012

Yu Tanaka will be presenting his recent paper given at GLOW in Asia IX in Phonology Seminar. This is joint work with fellow graduate student Jun Yashima. Speaker: Yu Tanaka (& Jun Yashima) Date/Time: Wednesday, October 10, 4-6pm Location: Campbell 2122 Title: Deliberate Markedness in Japanese hypocoristics Contact: Kie Zuraw

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Category: General, Graduate Students

Phonetics Seminar 10/08 – Marc Garellek

Published: October 8, 2012

Phonetics 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

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Category: Conferences, Faculty, General, Graduate Students

Summer highlights:

Published: October 8, 2012

Russ 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…

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Category: Faculty, General, Graduate Students, Journal Publications

Keating, Bishop and Kuo published in August 2012 issue of JASA

Published: October 8, 2012

Two 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…

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Category: Conferences, Faculty, General, Graduate Students

UCLA @ LabPhon13 (Stuttgart, Germany)

Published: October 8, 2012

LabPhon 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…

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Category: Conferences, Faculty, General, Graduate Students

UCLA @ GLOW in Asia IX

Published: October 8, 2012

GLOW 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

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Category: General, Graduate Students

New class arrives!

Published: September 27, 2012

UCLA 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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