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Category: Faculty, General, Graduate Students, Journal Publications

Keating, Bishop and Kuo published in August 2012 issue of JASA

Published: October 8, 2012

Two papers by department members were published in the August 2012 issue of the Journal of the Acoustic Society of America (JASA). Jason Bishop & Pat Keating, “Perception of pitch location within a speaker’s range: fundamental frequency, voice quality and speaker sex” Pat Keating and Grace Kuo, “Comparison of speaking fundamental frequency in English and…

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Category: Conferences, Faculty, General, Graduate Students

UCLA @ LabPhon13 (Stuttgart, Germany)

Published: October 8, 2012

LabPhon 13 took place this year in Stuttgart, Germany, from July 27-29. UCLA was very well-represented: Bruce Hayes, The role of computational modeling in the study of sound structure (invited talk) Marc Garellek, “A reanalysis of glottal stops and glottalization in English” (poster) Marc Garellek, “Importance of coding the Utterance domain in prosodic transcriptions” (poster…

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Category: Conferences, Faculty, General, Graduate Students

UCLA @ GLOW in Asia IX

Published: October 8, 2012

GLOW in Asia IX took place at Mie University, Japan, from September 4 to 6. A few UCLA linguists delivered talks there. 1. Yu Tanaka and Jun Yashima: Deliberate Markedness in Japanese Hypocristics. 2. Isabelle Charnavel (now at Harvard) & Dominique Sportiche: Binding Domain for Condition A

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Category: General

2012-2013 Colloquium Schedule

Published: October 3, 2012

We are proud to announce the department’s flagship colloquium schedule for the year 2012-2013. Fall quarter: November 2 — Sharon Rose, UCSD November 30 — Dan Swingley, UPenn December 7 — Gabriela Caballero, UCSD Winter Quarter: January 11 — Karen Emmorey, San Diego State January 18 — Jeffrey Lidz, University of Maryland January 25 —…

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Category: General

SynSem 10/05 – First meeting

Published: September 30, 2012

Date/Time: Friday, October 5, 2-4pm Location: Campbell 2122 Contact: Hilda Koopman From Hilda Koopman: Hello Everyone, The first meeting of the Fall 2012 Syntax and Semantics seminar, aka as SynSem, will be on Friday October 5th (in the conference room (Campbell Hall, 2122) at the usual time (2-4pm)). If you would like to present your…

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Category: General

Phonology Seminar 10/03 – Myfany Turpin

Published: September 30, 2012

Phonology Seminar returns on 10/03 in Campbell 2122 from 4pm – 6pm with a talk by visiting scholar Dr. Myfany Turpin (University of Queensland). Speaker: Myfany Turpin (University of Queensland, Australia) Date/Time: Wednesday, October 3, 4-6pm. Location: Campbell 2122A Title: The metrics of Kaytetye rain songs, a ceremonial repertory of Central Australia Contact: Kie Zuraw…

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Category: General, Graduate Students

New class arrives!

Published: September 27, 2012

UCLA extends a warm welcome to the new class of graduate students! Margit Bowler – Reed College Philippe Cote-Boucher – Concordia University, Canada John Gluckman – University of Pennsylvania Margaret Kroll – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Eun Hwa Lee – Indiana University, Bloomington Nicoletta Loccioni – University of Siena, Italy Jesse Zymet – Rutgers…

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Category: General

Welcome to Fall Quarter 2012

Published: September 24, 2012

Welcome back from summer vacation! This is the new UCLA Linguistics Blog. Blog posts are updated once weekly during the quarter. If you’d like to submit items to go on the blog, please feel free to email linguisticsucla@gmail.com. It will be checked regularly by the editorial team. Right now, since it is the beginning of…

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