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Category: General

SynSem 01/11 – Peter Jenks (UCB)

Published: January 11, 2013

We will have Pere Jenks from UCB this week in the first SynSem of Winter Quarter. Speaker: Peter Jenks (UCB) Date/Time: Friday, January 11, 2-4pm Location: Campbell 2122 Title: Quantifier Float and Scope in Thai Contact: Dominique Sportiche Abstract: In this paper I present an analysis of quantifier float (Q-float) in Thai as overt Quantifier…

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Category: General, Talks

Colloquium: Friday 01/11, Karen Emmorey (SDSU)

Published: January 10, 2013

Alumna Karen Emmorey (SDSU) will give a colloquium talk this Friday in Public Affairs 2270, at 11 a.m. As always, a social hour will follow at 1 pm in Campbell 2122. The title of the talk is: The Psycholinguistic and Neural Consequences of Bimodal Bilingualism Location: Public Affairs 2270 (Please note the change in location from…

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Category: General

Winter Quarter Colloquium Schedule

Published: January 10, 2013

The department’s colloquium schedule for Winter Quarter is as follows: January 11: Karen Emmorey (San Diego State University) January 18: Jeffrey Lidz (University of Maryland) January 25: Lisa deMena Travis (McGill) February 15: Matt Wagers (UCSC) March 08: Maria Bittner (Rutgers)

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Category: Conferences, Faculty, General

Sun-Ah Jun goes to New York

Published: January 10, 2013

Sun-Ah Jun heads to New York this weekend to speak at ‘Data Issues in Prosody Research’, a workshop to be held in Columbia University, NY, in January 11-12. Her talk is entitled: What to Label and How to Build a ToBI Database.  

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Category: Alumni, General, Jobs

Esposito awarded tenure at Macalester!

Published: December 7, 2012

Christina Esposito (PhD ’06) has been awarded tenure at Macalester College (St. Paul, MN), effective January 11 2013. Following Macalester tradition, she was presented with a letter by the Provost, accompanied by a piper from the Macalester College Pipe Band. She will also receive UC academic regalia to equip her for a career of commencements. Congratulations…

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Category: General, Talks

Colloquium: Friday 12/07, Gabriela Caballero (UCSD)

Published: December 4, 2012

Gabriela Caballero (UCSD) will give a colloquium talk this Friday in Rolfe 3126, at 11 a.m. As always, a social hour will follow at 1 pm in Campbell 2122. The title of the talk is: Assessing perceptual functionality of Multiple Exponence in Choguita Rarámuri (joint work with Vsevolod Kapatsinski (University of Oregon)) Speaker: Gabriela Caballero…

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Category: Alumni, Faculty, General

Memorial Service: Robert Stockwell – Friday, Dec.7, Royce 314

Published: December 3, 2012

Dear Friends, There will be a Memorial Service for Professor Robert Stockwell, the founder of the UCLA Linguistics Department, on Friday, Dec. 7, 2012.  It will be held in Royce 314, from 4:00-6:00 pm. Please mark your calendars. Details can be found here: http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/talksaevents/news/239-professor-robert-stockwell-memorial-service.html

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