Conferences

Ph.D. students Zhuo Chen and Huilei Wang will be giving presentations this week at the 23rd Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 23), the theme of which is “A Comparative Approach to the Syntax-Semantics Interface”: Zhuo Chen: The syntax of two types of Mandarin unconditionals Huilei Wang: Exceptional-scope effects in Mandarin relative clauses

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.

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

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…

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…

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…

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…