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...

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...

Location - Haines Hall 220

  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...

  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....

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...

  Empty 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...

  Since the release of ChatGPT but also other large language models (Claude, Bard, LLaMA etc), the internet has been awash in synthetic text, with suggested applications including robo-lawyers, robo-therapists,...

Location - Franz 1260

Location - Haines Hall 220