Conferences

Category: Alumni, Conferences, Faculty, General, Graduate Students

UCLA linguists at the International Congress of Linguists (Geneva, 21-27 July)

Published: July 22, 2013

The once-every-five years International Congress of Linguists is currently taking place in Geneva. A number of UCLA linguists (faculty, graduate students and alumni) will be presenting their work. Byron Ahn: “Universality and Subject-Oriented Reflexivity” Isabelle Charnavel (Ph.D. 2012): “A Unified Analysis of Iddi Terms (terms expressing identity and difference) based on French data (même ‘same’,…

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UCLA @ ASA/ICA/CAA Spring 2013

Published: June 8, 2013

A number of UCLA linguists presented posters at the Spring meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Montreal this past week. Adam Chong. Towards a model of Singaporean English intonational phonology. Marc Garellek, Robin Samlan, Jody Kreiman, and Bruce Gerratt (Dept. of Head and Neck Surgery). Perceptual sensitivity to a model of the source…

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Rett & Hyams in Reykjavík

Published: May 10, 2013

Jessica Rett and Nina Hyams are heading to Reykjavík, Iceland, to give a talk at the Workshop on Syntactic Issues in Language Acquisition at the 25th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, to be held May 13-15. Their talk is entitled: Copy raising and evidentiality: A view from child language

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Rett at SALT 23

Published: May 3, 2013

Jessica Rett and co-author, Sarah Murray (Cornell), will be presenting a poster at SALT 23, to be held this weekend at UCSC. Their poster is entitled: “A semantic account of mirative evidentials”.

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UCLA Linguists at GURT 2013 / ACAL 44

Published: March 5, 2013

Laura McPherson and Sadie Martin will be giving talks at the upcoming Georgetown University Round Table / 44th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Laura’s talk is entitled: “Tonal competition in the Dogon DP: a constraint-based approach to conflict resolution” Sadie’s talk is entitled: “The “Instrumental” Construction in Twi”

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Tellings @ BLS 39

Published: February 11, 2013

Jos Tellings will be presenting at BLS 39 at Berkeley this coming weekend. His talk is entitled: “Clitics and voicing in Dutch.” His abstract is as follows: Abstract: In Dutch, the process of clitic attachment to verbal stems interacts with voicing processes such as Final Devoicing and voice assimilation. In addition free variation is attested…

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Category: Conferences, Faculty, General, Graduate Students

UCLA @ WCCFL 31 (ASU)

Published: February 6, 2013

WCCFL 31 is being held at Arizona State University this weekend. UCLA linguists will be giving a number of talks there: Craig Sailor and Gary Thoms (U. Edinburgh). On the non-existence of non-constituent coordination and non-constituent ellipsis Sun-Ah Jun and Jason Bishop. Implicit phrasing and prominence influence relative clause attachment: evidence from structural priming Martin…

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