Phonetics Seminar – Zenghui Liu
Campbell Hall 2122AZenghui Liu “A cross-linguistic study on prosodic focus marking in Mon-Khmer languages”
Faculty Meeting
2122 Campbell HallColloquium Talk – Huilei Wang
Asymmetries in (c)overt extraction from relative clauses and a linearization-based account Quantifiers usually give rise to scope ambiguity when two or more occur in the same clause: the surface scope is determined by the surface c-commanding relation between two quantificational phrases, while the inverse scope arises from some scope-shifting mechanism which does not bring phonological...
Phonetics Seminar – Megha Sundara
Campbell Hall 2122AMegha Sundara “How do infants learn phonotactics?”
Colloquium Talk – Tanya Bondarenko
Lessons about clausal embedding from long-distance wh-dependencies Abstract: In this talk I argue with the data from Georgian that syntax and semantics of long-distance wh-dependencies provide support for the view that many embedded clauses are adjuncts (syntactically) and modifiers (semantically) rather than arguments of verbs they combine with (Elliott 2017, Bochnak & Hanink 2021, Bondarenko...
Phonetics Seminar
Campbell Hall 2122AReview of ASA abstracts
Syn/Sem Talk – Ramiro Caso
2122 Campbell HallA talk by Ramiro Caso, a philosopher/linguist visiting us from Buenos Aires. Towards a dynamic account of deontic modals I investigate the semantic and pragmatic behavior of deontic modals from a dynamic perspective. Pragmatically, deontic modals exhibit complex anchoring patterns that depend both on whose information state and whose preference ordering are taken as relevant,...
Colloquium Talk – Rachel Walker
Position-sensitive transparency in vowel harmony: The role of prosodic gestures and locality A recent crosslinguistic study of positional privilege in vowel harmony observed that vowels in a stressed syllable may asymmetrically block harmony, but they are never singled out to be transparent (Kaplan & Walker 2024). This typological gap is not predicted under traditional theoretical...
Phonetics Seminar – Zion Mengesha
Campbell Hall 2122AZion Mengesha (Dept. of Anthropology)
Syn/Sem Talk – Adrian Brasoveanu
2122 Campbell HallThis week's Syn/Sem features a practice SALT talk by Adrian Brasoveanu (UCSC). Counterfactual Interpretation as Search for Coherence (In a Learned Model of the World) "Once there was a little boy who lived in a hot country. One day his mother told him to take some cake to his grandmother. She warned him to hold...