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The Department of LinguisticsDustin Bowers will be presenting part of his MA work at the 44th Algonquian Conference to be held at the University of Chicago this week, 25th-28th October. His talk is entitled: Phonological restructuring in Odawa.
Read MoreThe 5th California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics (CUSP 5) will be held at UCSD on October 27 – 28, 2012. UCLA faculty and graduate students will be well-represented: Natasha Korotkova: Evidentiality in Georgian Deniz Ozyildiz: When I is not me: A preliminary case study of shifted indexicals in Turkish Philippe Côté-Boucher: Beyond the King of…
Read MoreHilda Koopman was recently invited to the USC Undergraduate Linguistics Conference on October 12, where she introduced the audience to the the Syntactic Structure of the World’s Languages (SSWL and Terraling) database project. The slides can be found here. She will also be heading out to Cornell for the Workshop on Suspended Affixation on October…
Read MoreSun-Ah Jun will be speaking at MIT this Friday, October 26, as part of their colloquium series. Her talk is entitled: Prosodic Priming in Relative Clause Attachment. An abstract follows: In a sentence such as “Someone shot the servant of the actress who was on the balcony”, the relative clause (RC) can modify NP1 the servant (i.e.,…
Read MoreGraduate student Laura Kalin is heading to the 43rd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society, held at CUNY this week. She’ll be giving a poster presentation entitled: Last Resort Structure Building: Agreement and Argument Licensing in Senaya
Read MoreGraduate student Marc Garellek has been awarded second place for his abstract, “Prominence vs. phrase-initial strengthening of voice quality,” to be presented at the LSA 2013 Annual Meeting in Boston. The award will be presented at a special ceremony on Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013, immediately preceding the Presidential Address. Congratulations Marc!
Read MoreRuss Schuh: UCLA alumnus Alhaji Maina Gimba visited the department from mid-May to mid-July 2012 for work with Russ Schuh on a dictionary of Bole, a West Chadic language spoken in northeastern Nigeria. Gimba and Russ collaborated with another UCLA alumnus, Paul Newman, for a week at the end of June (Paul is the author…
Read MoreGrace Kuo represented the department at InterSpeech 2012 in Portland in September. Her talk was entitled “Perceived prosodic boundaries in Taiwanese and their acoustic correlates”
Read MoreLabPhon 13 took place this year in Stuttgart, Germany, from July 27-29. UCLA was very well-represented: Bruce Hayes, The role of computational modeling in the study of sound structure (invited talk) Marc Garellek, “A reanalysis of glottal stops and glottalization in English” (poster) Marc Garellek, “Importance of coding the Utterance domain in prosodic transcriptions” (poster…
Read MoreGLOW in Asia IX took place at Mie University, Japan, from September 4 to 6. A few UCLA linguists delivered talks there. 1. Yu Tanaka and Jun Yashima: Deliberate Markedness in Japanese Hypocristics. 2. Isabelle Charnavel (now at Harvard) & Dominique Sportiche: Binding Domain for Condition A
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