ITO AND MESTER IN TROMSØ

Junko Ito and Armin Mester meanwhile travelled to CASTL at the University of Tromsø in Norway to take part in a series of events there. Junko was second opponent in the doctoral dissertation defense of Violeta Martínez-Paricio who was a Graduate Student Visitor in the Department under the auspices of the Linguistics Research Center in the academic year 2011-2012 and much of her dissertation research began at UCSC. The title of Violeta’s thesis is An exploration of minimal and maximal metrical feet and it explores the hypothesis that natural languages might exhibit recursion at the level of the foot. The Doctoral Defense (the disputatio) will be directed by alumnus Professor Peter Svenonius, who graduated from UCSC in 1994 and is now Director of CASTL and a Professor in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Tromsø.

On the day following the dissertation defense, there will be a mini-worshop, at which Armin and Junko will serially present recent research on Perfect Shape vs. Exhaustive Parsing in Prosody.

All of these events take place during the Polar Twilight.