Conferences

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Aziz & Elkins @ AFLA 28

Published: May 18, 2021

Ph.D. students Jacob Aziz & Noah Elkins will be giving a talk at the 28th Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA 28) next week titled Malagasy /nr/-strengthening within and across prosodic boundaries.

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UCLA @ CLS 57

Published: May 3, 2021

The 57th meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 57) is this weekend. The program features two talks by UCLA linguists: Elizabeth Sola-Llonch: A first look at conditionals and counterfactual conditionals in Lachirioag Zapotec Alum Eleanor Glewwe: The phonological determinants of tone in English loanwords in Mandarin

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UCLA @ WCCFL 39

Published: April 8, 2021

The 39th meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 39) is this weekend, hosted by the University of Arizona. The program features several talks by UCLA linguists: Canaan Breiss and Hironori Katsuda (with Shigeto Kawahara): Paradigm uniformity is probabilistic: Evidence from velar nasalization in Japanese Dominique Sportiche with Alum Isabelle Charnavel: Taking…

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UCLA @ LSA 2021

Published: January 18, 2021

In addition to the best-abstract awards to Hiro, Jeremy, Maura, and Richard, there were lots of talks and posters by UCLA linguists at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, which was held virtually from 7-10 January: Canaan Breiss: Base effects are probabilistic: a case study in Lexical Conservatism Colin Brown and…

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UCLA Linguistics at SSILA

Published: January 13, 2021

UCLA linguistics was well represented at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA), which was held virtually from January 7-10. Graduate students Madeleine Booth and Elizabeth Sola-Llonch, and Professor Harold Torrence gave a presentation titled “Free Relative Clauses in San Cristóbal Lachirioag Zapotec,” while three…

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UCLA @ BUCLD

Published: November 17, 2020

The Boston University Conference on Language Development took place from Nov. 5-8.   The program featured talks by UCLA linguists Jesse Harris, Suh-Ah Jun, Megha Sundara, Canaan Briess, and Laurel Perkins: Chie Nakamura, Jesse Harris, & Sun-Ah Jun, “Learning to anticipate with unconventional prosodic mappings: The L2 advantage” (poster) Megha Sundara & Canaan Briess, “Infants are…

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UCLA @ NELS 51

Published: November 5, 2020

The 51st Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS) is this weekend, hosted by Université du Québec à Montréal. The program features several talks by UCLA linguists: Zhuo Chen: Mandarin conditionals: the external syntax, order preservation and cyclic linearization Tim Hunter (with Robert Frank): Comparing methods of tree-construction across mildly context-sensitive formalisms Travis…

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Category: Alumni, Conferences, Faculty, Graduate Students

UCLA at Fall 2019 ASA meeting

Published: December 10, 2019

The Department was well-represented at the December 2019 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in San Diego. Current faculty and students who were authors of posters include: Suzy Ahn, Jake Aziz, Phill Barnett, Matt Faytak, Jinyoung Jo, Hiro Katsuda, Pat Keating, Jennifer Kuo, Connor Mayer, Christine Prechtel, Brice Roberts, Jeremy Steffman, Megha Sundara, Gabe…

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