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Phonology Seminar Fall 2023 Ben Eischens

2122 Campbell Hall

Jennifer Miyaki, “The phonology of compound reduction in American Sign Language” To ask to give a seminar, please contact the Fall Quarter convenor, Bruce Hayes, at bhayes@humnet.ucla.edu.

Colloquium Talk – Meredith Tamminga: Language users’ expectations shape phonetic flexibility

  Location - Dodd 146 Language users' expectations shape phonetic flexibility Language users show considerable flexibility in their phonetic perception and production. Phonetic flexibility phenomena such as convergence and perceptual learning are of broad interest because of their connections to questions in language learning, sociolinguistic variation, and diachronic change. In this talk I will present...

Syntax/Semantics Seminar – Hunter Johnson

  Unaccusativity and the active/stative split in Guarani Guarani is known as one of the canonical active/stative languages in which intransitive verbs vary in whether they take so-called active (looks like subject) or so-called stative (looks like object) agreement. However, there are two problems with this view: i) lots of exceptions are attested and ii)...