Winter 2024 American Indian Seminar – TBA
2122 Campbell HallMeet Tuesdays 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM on Zoom, but you can also hybridize with Professor Munro in person in the 2122A Conference Room each week - just bring your laptop.
Colloquium Talk – Sam Zukoff: Morpheme Ordering Happens in the Phonology
Location - Math and Science 5200 Title: Morpheme Ordering Happens in the Phonology Abstract: The determination of the order of morphemes within words has traditionally been modeled using cyclic concatenation, the one-by-one attachment of affixal morphemes to the root, guided by morphosyntactic constituency via the “Mirror Principle” (Baker 1985). In this talk, I propose an alternative,...
Winter 2024 American Indian Seminar – Iara Mantenuto (CSUDH)
2122 Campbell HallMeet Tuesdays 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM on Zoom, but you can also hybridize with Professor Munro in person in the 2122A Conference Room each week - just bring your laptop.
Phonology Seminar – Kie Zuraw & Paolo Roca
2122 Campbell HallFilipino word prosody: Evidence from textsetting If you would like to schedule a presentation, please email Ben Eischens (beischens@ucla.edu).
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 the complex onsets /sp/ and /pl/, as in ‘speech’ and ‘play’, Spanish only /pl/, as in ‘playa’, while Farsi allows no complex onsets at all....
Winter 2024 American Indian Seminar – Nothing to Wear Fest
2122 Campbell HallMeet Tuesdays 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM on Zoom, but you can also hybridize with Professor Munro in person in the 2122A Conference Room each week - just bring your laptop.
Hendrik Kim Dissertation Defense
Campbell 3103DThe syntax of negation in Korean given an antisymmetric and cartographic frameworkIn this talk, I will reassess the syntax of preverbal and postverbal negation by taking into consideration a framework which is based on the antisymmetry theory (Kayne 1994) in conjunction with the cartographic program (Cinque 1999), building on the works by Koopman & Szabolcsi...
Phonology Seminar – Journal Club
2122 Campbell Hall(May be moved to Week 6) If you would like to schedule a presentation, please email Ben Eischens (beischens@ucla.edu).
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 Sign Language Abstract: To what extent are the phonological systems of languages, spoken or signed, structured similarly if we assume that they both draw on...