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The Department of LinguisticsA paper by Connor Mayer (4th year PhD candidate) and Robert Daland (former UCLA faculty) has just been accepted to Linguistic Inquiry. The title of the paper is “A method for projecting features from observed phonological classes.” Click here to see a pre-print. Congratulations, Connor and Robert!
Read MoreJeremy Steffman’s paper, a slightly extended version of his MA thesis, just got accepted to Journal of Phonetics. The title of his paper is “Intonational structure mediates speech rate normalization in the perception of segmental categories”. Congratulations, Jeremy!
Read MoreThere are two papers from the infant lab this year in the Journal Cognition. Megha Sundara & Victoria Mateu are the authors of a paper in the December 2018 issue of Cognition, Lexical stress constrains English-learning infants’ segmentation in a non-native language. Cognition, 181, 105-116. Sundara, M., Ngon, C., Skoruppa, K., Feldman, N. H., Onario, G….
Read MoreLecturer Olga Ivanova has published a paper, entitled “Overcoming discursive prohibitions in participatory media: A case study on talk about homosexuality in Tanzania,” in the journal Language & Communication. Full citation below. Congrats, Olga! Ivanova, O. (2018). Overcoming discursive prohibitions in participatory media: A case study on talk about homosexuality in Tanzania. Language & Communication, 58, 34–46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2017.10.003
Read MoreEmeritus Edward Keenan and Kai von Fintel (MIT) have just published a paper in the Journal of Semantics, entitled ”Determiners, conservativity, witnesses”. Abstract here.
Read MoreProfessor Jessica Rett has just published a paper, entitled “The semantics of many, much, few and little,” in the journal Language and Linguistics Compass. The goal of the paper is to provide an overview of semantic theories of these words, especially in light of recent innovations in degree semantics.
Read MoreHilda Koopman is a co-author on a PNAS paper arguing that yes, there (seems to be/is) a Neural correlate of syntactic operation Merge. From the abstract: Our results provide initial intracranial evidence for the neurophysiological reality of the merge operation postulated by linguists and suggest that the brain compresses syntactically wellformed sequences of words into a…
Read MoreJianjing Kuang (Ph.D. 2013, now at UPenn) and Pat Keating’s paper Vocal fold vibratory patterns in tense versus lax phonation contrasts just appeared in this month’s issue of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Congrats JJ and Pat!
Read More————————————————————————————————- UCLA Linguists At The 2013 LSA Linguistic Institute (Also posted on Department’s news page) Pat Keating writes: The department was well-represented at the month-long Institute in Ann Arbor this past summer. Three courses were taught by current department members: “Quantitative and Computational Phonology” by Bruce Hayes, “Articulatory Phonetics” by Pat Keating, and “Language Typology”…
Read MoreA co-authored paper by Laura McPherson and Jeffrey Heath (University of Michigan) just appeared in the most recent issue of Language. You’ll find the paper on Project MUSE’s website. Heath, J. & McPherson, L. (2013). Tonosyntax and reference restriction in Dogon NPs. Language, 89(2), 265-296.
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