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Phonology Seminar – Black Lehman

2122 Campbell Hall

Phonology and morphology in Avatime, Dschang, and Hän (practice job talk) Zoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/91545617700 If you would like to schedule a presentation, please email Ben Eischens (beischens@ucla.edu).

Colloquium Talk – Jonah Katz: Prosodic structure, timing, and fortition-lenition patterns

Location - Royce Hall 362 Title: Prosodic structure, timing, and fortition-lenition patterns Abstract: This talk reviews cross-linguistic evidence that certain common lenition processes such as spirantization, intervocalic voicing, and flapping take place in a component of grammar that governs the fine-grained temporal dynamics of speech sounds and their interaction with prosodic structure. I argue that...

Winter 2024 American Indian Seminar – TBA

2122 Campbell Hall

Meet 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,...

Phonology Seminar – Kie Zuraw & Paolo Roca

2122 Campbell Hall

Filipino word prosody: Evidence from textsetting If you would like to schedule a presentation, please email Ben Eischens (beischens@ucla.edu).

Hendrik Kim Dissertation Defense

Campbell 3103D

The 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...