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The Department of LinguisticsLaura 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”
Read MoreJos 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…
Read MoreWCCFL 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…
Read MoreMeaghan Fowlie was recently in the Netherlands where she presented a poster entitled “Minimalist Grammars with Adjunction” at the 23rd meeting of Computational Linguistics In the Netherlands (CLIN 23) at the University of Twente.
Read MoreAlumna Karen Emmorey (SDSU) will give a colloquium talk this Friday in Public Affairs 2270, at 11 a.m. As always, a social hour will follow at 1 pm in Campbell 2122. The title of the talk is: The Psycholinguistic and Neural Consequences of Bimodal Bilingualism Location: Public Affairs 2270 (Please note the change in location from…
Read MoreSun-Ah Jun heads to New York this weekend to speak at ‘Data Issues in Prosody Research’, a workshop to be held in Columbia University, NY, in January 11-12. Her talk is entitled: What to Label and How to Build a ToBI Database.
Read MoreProfessor Edward L. Keenan and graduate student Laura Kalin will be co-teaching a course on syntactic typology at this year’s Linguistics Institute at the University of Michigan, June 24 — July 19. Keenan will focus on typological variation and Kalin on integrating this variation within current syntactic theory.
Read MoreGabriela Caballero (UCSD) will give a colloquium talk this Friday in Rolfe 3126, at 11 a.m. As always, a social hour will follow at 1 pm in Campbell 2122. The title of the talk is: Assessing perceptual functionality of Multiple Exponence in Choguita Rarámuri (joint work with Vsevolod Kapatsinski (University of Oregon)) Speaker: Gabriela Caballero…
Read MoreThe annual Boston University Conference on Language Development will take place this weekend in Boston. UCLA faculty and graduate students will be presenting two talks there. Jessica Rett, Nina Hyams & Lauren Winans, The effects of syntax on the acquisition of evidentiality Jamie White & Megha Sundara, Infant biases in the learning of phonological alternations
Read MoreGraduate student Jamie White will be one of two students receiving the Society for Language Development Student Award, sponsored by the Cognitive Science Society. This award was presented today at the annual Society for Language Development Symposium (taking place in conjunction with BUCLD) today. Congratulations Jamie!
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