Talks

Category: Conferences, Faculty, General, Talks

Hilda Koopman @ USC and Cornell

Published: October 25, 2012

Hilda 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…

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Category: Faculty, General, Talks

Sun-Ah Jun @ MIT

Published: October 23, 2012

Sun-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.,…

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Category: Conferences, General, Graduate Students

Laura Kalin goes to NELS!

Published: October 16, 2012

Graduate 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

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Category: Conferences, General, Graduate Students

Congratulations Marc Garellek!

Published: October 10, 2012

Graduate 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!

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Category: Conferences, Faculty, General, Graduate Students

Summer highlights:

Published: October 8, 2012

Russ 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…

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Category: Conferences, Faculty, General, Graduate Students

UCLA @ LabPhon13 (Stuttgart, Germany)

Published: October 8, 2012

LabPhon 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…

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Category: Conferences, Faculty, General, Graduate Students

UCLA @ GLOW in Asia IX

Published: October 8, 2012

GLOW 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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