Colloquium Talk – Connor Mayer: Are scalar models of sonority enough? Insights from L2 acquisition of English complex onsets
Languages vary in their phonotactics: how sounds are allowed to be sequenced into words. For example, although English, Spanish, and Farsi all have the sounds /p l s/, English allows...
Colloquium Talk – Shengyun Gu: When the phonological mind meets another modality: Two-handed articulation in Shanghai Sign Language ” (See below for abstract)
Location - Royce Hall 362 The department tour slot is still open. You can sign up here (same link). When the phonological mind meets another modality: Two-handed articulation in Shanghai...
Colloquium Talk – Viola Schmitt: Distributivity is Complex
In this talk I show (based on joint cross-linguistic work with various collaborators) that distributive -- i.e., `classical' -- meanings for the universal part of the language (connectives and DP-internal...
Colloquium Talk – Amy Rose Deal
Dependent case by Agree: Ergative in Shawi (joint work with Emily Clem, UCSD)Ergative and accusative behave as dependent cases insofar as their appearance on a nominal depends on the presence of...
Colloquium Talk – Chris Kennedy: Pragmatic Indecision
Pragmatic Indecision Vague predicates are obligatorily tolerant (Wright 1973). For example, the positive form gradable adjective ‘long’ cannot be used to draw a sharp distinction, even when the facts of...
Colloquium Talk – Jeff Lidz
Location - Haines Hall 220
Colloquium Talk – Edward Flemming – Generating and parsing f0 contours using a model of f0 production
I will present ongoing work aimed at developing a framework for formulating phonetic grammars of tone realization that can derive complete fundamental frequency (f0) contours from phonological specifications. The...
Colloquium Talk – Ryan Bennett: Anticipatory nasalization in A’ingae
Anticipatory nasalization in A’ingae: Language-specific phonetics, not incomplete neutralization (Joint work with Scott AnderBois, Shen Aguinda, and Hugo Lucitante) Cross-linguistically, vowels often undergo contextual nasalization in and sequences....
Colloquium Talk – Sarah Phillips: No escape from morphemes in the bilingual mind
LOCATION CHANGE - Campbell Hall 2122A and Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/s/91305505603 In the bilingualism literature, most agree that the bilingual lexicon contains elements from both languages that can be activated non-selectively...
Colloquium Talk – Bronwyn Bjorkman: The puzzle of (apparently) phonologically motivated empty morphs
2122 Campbell HallEmpty morphs are stable units of form that occur without any associated meaning or function, the inverse of zero morphs. Some empty morphs seem to occur for phonological, rather...