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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Florian Schwarz
DESCRIPTION:Testing weak and strong definites experimentally across languages \nSchwarz (2009) proposed a distinction between weak and strong definite articles\, reflected in Standard German in the presence or absence of contraction of the article with certain prepositions (e.g.\, vom vs. von dem). Semantically\, the analysis took the former to be a situationally restricted uniqueness article\, and the latter an anaphoric article bearing an index\, just like a pronoun. In subsequent work\, numerous authors have applied this distinction to analyze contrasts between definite forms in a wide range of languages. While this cross-linguistic evidence supports the availability of the ingredients of the distinction in natural language in general (with some analytical variations and adjustments\, and quite possibly further aspects in play in certain languages)\, the basic semantic contrast remains subtle and has generally not been captured systematically in experimental investigations. I present data from a simple picture selection task paradigm where the contrast in anaphoricity is pitched against another factor\, that of typicality\, which do provide quantitative support of the posited contrast. Next\, I extend this paradigm to English to turn to a question vexingly left open in this literature\, namely whether articles in languages that do not seem to make such a contrast and only use one form for definites throughout\, like English\, are ambiguous or map onto either weak or strong articles. The final part of the talk adds in data from various ongoing collaborations that investigate yet more languages to work towards a more systematic and quantitative comparison of different forms across languages. I close by considering challenges that lie ahead in integrating this data theoretically. \nLocation: Royce Hall\, Room 156
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-florian-schwarz/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 156
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Jack Duff
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Talk – Jack Duff \nMar 12 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm \nLocation: La Kretz Hall 120
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-jack-duff/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250310T120000
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Kelsey Sasaki
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Talk – Kelsey Sasaki \nMar 10 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm \nLocation: La Kretz Hall 120
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-kelsey-sasaki/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250307T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250307T140000
DTSTAMP:20250227T231602Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Uriel Cohen Priva
DESCRIPTION:Four short investigations of short duration.\n\nI will present four interconnected investigations regarding the effects of short duration in the context of phonetics\, phonology and sound change. I’ll start with the observation that durational shortening appears to be a crucial causal factor in at least three unrelated languages (Ennever\, Meakins\, and Round 2017; Katz and Pitzanti 2019; Cohen Priva and Gleason 2020). I will argue that this causal route saves us from seemingly counter-optimization in information-driven consonant lenition (e.g. Cohen Priva 2017). Turning our attention to vowels\, I will demonstrate that contrast-elimination pressures on vowels would not result in a schwa\, but rather in a high central vowel\, and that the abundance of schwa vowels cross-linguistically would seem to follow from the loss of a perceived target alongside the maintenance of the need for a vowel (Cohen Priva and Strand 2023). Finally\, I will delve into individual differences in the degree to which speakers yield to phonetic pressures\, which turns out to be good for explaining the absence of unwarranted sound change (Cohen Priva and Gafter 2024).
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-uriel-cohen-priva/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 156
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250307T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250307T110000
DTSTAMP:20250108T000227Z
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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
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URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-111/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250305T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250305T140000
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Dave Cayado
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Talk – Dave Cayado \nMar 5 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm \nLocation: La Kretz Hall 120
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-dave-cayado/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250228T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250228T130000
DTSTAMP:20250219T231445Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Wesley Orth
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Talk – Wesley Orth \nFeb 28 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm \nLocation: Royce Hall 156 \n 
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-wesley-orth/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 156
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250221T110000
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Nicole Holliday - Sociolinguistic Competence Versus Artificial "Intelligence": Variation in the Face of Ubiquitous Large Language Models
DESCRIPTION:Linguists take it as axiomatic that speakers are experts on their languages\, both in grammar and usage. However\, as Large Language Models (LLM) trained on text and speech become ubiquitous in domains from daily tasks to education and employment\, human expertise about language is increasingly devalued. This talk will present the results of three studies that focus on how LLMs judge and purport to “fix” the speech of human talkers\, also known as Social Feedback Speech Technologies (SFSTs). The first study shows how the Amazon Halo\, a wearable device that claims to evaluate “tone of voice” does not function as advertised\, and in fact systematically negatively evaluates the speech of Black talkers.  Results of the second study\, which focuses on Read.AI and the Zoom Revenue Accelerator in videoconferencing contexts\, describe how SFSTs reinforce narrow “standard” language ideologies and fail to provide actionable\, realistic feedback to users. These systems also provide systematically worse evaluations for black speakers\, as well as those who are neurodivergent. Finally\, the third study analyzes the outputs of “accent translation” programs marketed by companies such as Sanas and Krisp\, showing that such programs do not functionally “translate” accents but rather transform speech to an imagined “American” variety that is phonetically unnatural. Taken together\, the studies show that “AI”-based programs that purport to evaluate human speech do so without consideration of linguistic principles or acknowledgement of speakers’ sociolinguistic competencies. Such systems also act without transparency for both designers and users by design\, reproducing social stereotypes inherent to their training data. As a result\, they advise humans to produce unnatural speech\, and they punish speakers who do not conform to the narrow targets established by an LLM’s training data. As such technologies are already being used to make employment decisions\, provide speech therapy\, and even draft police reports\, the fact that these systems systematically misevaluate speech represents a significant threat to all human speakers\, most especially those from marginalized groups.  \nLocation: Royce Hall 156
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-nicole-holliday/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250221T090000
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DTSTAMP:20250115T003340Z
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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-108/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250131T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250131T120000
DTSTAMP:20250130T003416Z
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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-107/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250110T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250110T130000
DTSTAMP:20250109T165552Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Abeer Abbas
DESCRIPTION:Morphological Structure in the Arabic Mental Lexicon: Productivity and Priming Effects in Nominal and Verbal Patterns. \nAbstract Semitic languages\, including Arabic\, are characterized by two types of discontinuous morphemes: roots and word patterns. However\, the role of these morphemes in lexical access and representation remains debated. Roots have been found to exhibit robust priming effects across both nominal and verbal patterns. In contrast\, word patterns have shown mixed results\, with verbal patterns consistently demonstrating stronger priming effects than nominal patterns. While previous research\, such as Deutsch et al. (1998)\, suggested that productivity might explain these differences\, no study has directly investigated the role of productivity in morphological priming by Arabic word patterns. This dissertation addresses this gap by examining whether documented differences between priming between nominal and verbal word patterns are due to differences in productivity and whether morphological priming in word patterns can be distinguished from the effects of overlap in semantics and phonology. A total of 583 native Arabic speakers participated in five experiments\, including cross-modal priming and masked visual priming tasks. Stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs) of 32 ms\, 42 ms\, 48 ms\, and 65 ms were varied to investigate the time course of lexical access in word patterns. Stimuli included high- and low-productivity nouns and verbs\, compared with phonological\, semantic\, and unrelated controls.  The results showed that productivity plays a critical role in explaining the differential priming effects of nominal and verbal patterns. High-productivity word patterns\, both nominal and verbal\, exhibited robust priming effects\, while low-productivity patterns did not\, offering new insights into the interaction between productivity and morphological decomposition in Arabic. These findings support the dual-route model of morphological processing\, highlighting that high-productivity patterns are accessed via decomposition\, while low-productivity patterns rely on whole-word storage. Additionally\, the findings showed that word pattern priming effects were found only at longer SOAs (42 ms\, 48 ms\, and 65 ms) but not at 32 ms\, emphasizing that word patterns activate morphemic representations after roots. Furthermore\, high-productivity patterns were distinguished from form and meaning overlap\, providing clear evidence for their independent role in morphological decomposition.
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-abeer-abbas/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250110T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250110T110000
DTSTAMP:20250109T165438Z
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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-106/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Faculty Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241206T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241206T120000
DTSTAMP:20241205T231203Z
CREATED:20241205T231203Z
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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-104/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
CATEGORIES:Faculty Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241202T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241202T180000
DTSTAMP:20241126T170830Z
CREATED:20241004T162602Z
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UID:488161-1733155200-1733162400@linguistics.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Phonetics Seminar: Meg Cychosz
DESCRIPTION:“Deriving vocal milestones from large-scale\, cross-linguistic samples of infant and child speech”
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonetics-seminar-meg-cychosz/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
CATEGORIES:Phonetics Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241125T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241125T180000
DTSTAMP:20241004T162504Z
CREATED:20241004T162504Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241004T162504Z
UID:488159-1732550400-1732557600@linguistics.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Phonetics Seminar: Megha Sundara & Jeremy Steffman (U of Edinburgh)
DESCRIPTION:“Are features sub- or supra-segmental? Evidence from phonetic categorization and eye tracking”
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonetics-seminar-megha-sundara-jeremy-steffman-u-of-edinburgh/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
CATEGORIES:Phonetics Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241122T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241122T140000
DTSTAMP:20241105T213041Z
CREATED:20240815T163159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241105T213041Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Maria Gouskova
DESCRIPTION:Location: Royce Hall 362 \nPhonological Selection in Small Sublexicons\n\nAffixes can impose phonological restrictions on the stems they attach to: only consonant-final stems\, or stems no bigger than two syllables. These restrictions remain poorly understood and under-formalized. For example\, Prosodic Morphology-era analyses characterize adjectival -er/-est affixation as selecting for a trochee\, but it remains a mystery why this trochee can be disyllabic\, while the -en suffix ("stiff-en"\, "redd-en") admits only obstruent-final monosyllables. I\nconsider the problem from the perspective of sublexical theory\, whereby the generalizations about such patterns are statistically extracted rather than being part of the morphological rules governing the affixes. The challenge taken on in this talk is how to extract generalizations from small sublexicons.\n\nI explore size restrictions imposed by two suffixes of Russian: the adjectival "notable body part" -ast suffix (e.g.\, glaz-ast-ij 'big-eyed') and the nominal "baby diminutive" -onok (e.g.\, akulʲ-onok 'baby shark'). The -ast suffix selects for disyllabic stems\, while the baby diminutive selects for maximally trisyllabic stems. In Sharoff's (2005) list of Russian words that occur at least once per million in the Russian National Corpus\, -ast adjectives are represented by just 17 lemmas\, and -onok baby diminutives by 29 lemmas. An exploration\nof a larger corpus shows that both affixes are productive\, and their size selection constraints are projected in a frequency-matching pattern. The frequency-matching even extends to the semantics of the stems\, specifically the categories that typically figure in inalienable possession.  \n\nMy explanation for this is that the rules contain lexical lists (sublexicons) but no phonological (or semantic) context. Learners form phonological generalizations by calculating disparities between what is attested in the sublexicon defined by each affix vs. what is attested in the set of comparable stems in the language as a whole. The generalizations tend to be coarse (to borrow Pierrehumbert's (2001) term) because a small sublexicon is likely to support only a generalization that is informed by every item in the list: all stems\ninclude syllables\, consonants\, and vowels\, but not all stems supply evidence of finer-grained underattestation at the level of segmental features. I also argue that a Prosodic Morphology-style subcategorization frame cannot capture the 2-syll and 3-syll selection in Russian because these units do not correspond to prosodic constituents in the language.
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-maria-gouskova/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241122T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241122T110000
DTSTAMP:20240923T202111Z
CREATED:20240923T202111Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240923T202111Z
UID:477681-1732266000-1732273200@linguistics.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-103/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
CATEGORIES:Faculty Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241120T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241120T133000
DTSTAMP:20241008T213232Z
CREATED:20241008T213232Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241008T213232Z
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SUMMARY:Syntax/Semantics Seminar- Aaron White (University of Rochester)
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URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-semantics-seminar-aaron-white-university-of-rochester/
LOCATION:Campbell Hall 2122
CATEGORIES:Syntax/Semantics Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241118T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241118T180000
DTSTAMP:20241004T162403Z
CREATED:20241004T162252Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241004T162403Z
UID:488156-1731945600-1731952800@linguistics.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Phonetics Seminar: Discussion of ASA Abstracts
DESCRIPTION:Discussion of ASA Abstracts
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonetics-seminar-discussion-of-asa-abstracts-3/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
CATEGORIES:Phonetics Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241115T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241115T110000
DTSTAMP:20240923T202041Z
CREATED:20240923T202021Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240923T202041Z
UID:477679-1731661200-1731668400@linguistics.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-102/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
CATEGORIES:Faculty Meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241113T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241113T133000
DTSTAMP:20241008T213150Z
CREATED:20241008T213150Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241008T213150Z
UID:492244-1731499200-1731504600@linguistics.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Syntax/Semantics Seminar- Arthur Mateos
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-semantics-seminar-arthur-mateos/
LOCATION:Campbell Hall 2122
CATEGORIES:Syntax/Semantics Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241108T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241108T110000
DTSTAMP:20240923T201957Z
CREATED:20240923T201957Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240923T201957Z
UID:477677-1731056400-1731063600@linguistics.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-101/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
CATEGORIES:Faculty Meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241106T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241106T133000
DTSTAMP:20241008T213019Z
CREATED:20241008T213019Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241008T213019Z
UID:492232-1730894400-1730899800@linguistics.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Syntax/Semantics Seminar- Sakshi Singh
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-semantics-seminar-sakshi-singh/
LOCATION:Campbell 2122
CATEGORIES:Syntax/Semantics Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241104T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241104T180000
DTSTAMP:20241023T185647Z
CREATED:20241023T185647Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T185647Z
UID:506614-1730736000-1730743200@linguistics.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Phonetics Seminar: Pat Keating
DESCRIPTION:Pat Keating\, “Phonation across languages”
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonetics-seminar-pat-keating/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
CATEGORIES:Phonetics Seminar
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241101T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241101T140000
DTSTAMP:20241028T173111Z
CREATED:20240815T163049Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241028T173111Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Barbara Citko
DESCRIPTION:Economy in PF-Reduction: Why and when (not) to elide multidominant structures? \nIn this talk\, reporting on joint work with Martina Gračanin-Yuksek\, we examine two ways in which a syntactic structure can be PF-reduced (unpronounced): multidominance (MD) and ellipsis. If both ellipsis and MD are available in principle\, the following questions arise: (i) what factors influence the choice between ellipsis and MD? (ii) can multiply-dominated material be elided and if so\, under what circumstances? To answer these questions\, we look at the properties of coordinate structures in which the elements that survive PF-reduction are wh-phrases: Coordinated Wh-Questions (CWHs) and Coordinated Sluices (CSs)\, illustrated in (1-2). \n(1) What and when should you teach?                                                                   CWH \n(2) Someone saw something\, but I can’t remember who or what.                         CS \nOur main claim is that PF reduction is governed by economy\, which affects syntactic derivations in two ways. First\, economy favors “least effort” derivations (i.e.\, derivations with fewest operations) from the set of possible derivations that arrive at the same string with the same interpretation (Chomsky 1991; Bošković 1997; Collins 2001; among many others)\, and\, second\, economy bans derivations in which PF reducing operations apply vacuously (i.e.\, without having an effect on pronunciation). \nLocation: Royce Hall 362
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-barbara-citko/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241101T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241101T110000
DTSTAMP:20240923T201934Z
CREATED:20240923T201934Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240923T201934Z
UID:477675-1730451600-1730458800@linguistics.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-100/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
CATEGORIES:Faculty Meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241030T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241030T133000
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SUMMARY:Syntax/Semantics Seminar- Jessica Rett
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-semantics-seminar-jessica-rett/
LOCATION:Campbell 2122
CATEGORIES:Syntax/Semantics Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241028T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241028T180000
DTSTAMP:20241004T162141Z
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SUMMARY:Phonetics Seminar: Kevin Liang and Ben Eischens & Jahnavi Narkar
DESCRIPTION:(1) Kevin Liang\, BUCLD practice talk “The influence of phonotactics on morphological decomposition in infancy” (2) Ben Eischens & Jahnavi Narkar\, Sound Systems of Latin America (SSLA4) practice talk\, “The production of phonation type in San Martín Peras Mixtec”
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonetics-seminar-kevin-liang-and-ben-eischens-jahnavi-narkar/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
CATEGORIES:Phonetics Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241025T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241025T140000
DTSTAMP:20241021T172815Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Jake Aziz "Syntax and Prosody in Malagasy"
DESCRIPTION:A correspondence between syntactic and prosodic constituency has been observed for many languages\, and Malagasy (VOS) is no exception: the predicate and subject each forms its own phonological phrase\, marked at its right edge with a rising pitch accent (i.e.\, phonological phrasing is [VO] [S]). Imperatives\, though\, exhibit a different pattern: imperative verb heads and their objects are prosodically distinct (i.e.\, [V] [O] [S]). This pattern is surprising given that imperatives and declaratives have a similar surface word order and no immediately-evident structural differences that would correspond to the observed prosody. This apparent mismatch could be explained as either a) a true syntax-prosody mismatch\, where the observed prosody of imperatives is caused by some other prosodic requirement\, or b) an incomplete understanding of the syntax of the imperative. In this talk\, I will present original prosodic and syntactic data and conclude that the Malagasy imperative adheres to a strict syntax-prosody correspondence if we consider a revised analysis of the syntax where objects raise out of the predicate verb phrase in imperative structures. The talk will end with a short tutorial on incorporating prosodic evidence into your own work. \nLocation: Royce Hall 362
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-jake-aziz-2/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241025T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241025T110000
DTSTAMP:20240923T201902Z
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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-99/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
CATEGORIES:Faculty Meeting
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