PADGETT IN NORWAY

Jaye Padgett was in Tromsø, Norway where he was an invited speaker at the Palatalization Conference there, which was hosted by the Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics (CASTL) and the University of Tromsø (a.k.a. the Arctic University of Norway). You can see here the slides of his talk, The perception of secondary palatalization: Irish and Russian compared, co-authored with Máire Ní Chiosáin of University College Dublin, in Ireland. While there, Jaye saw UCSC Ph.D. alum Peter Svenonius (1994), as well as Ove Lorentz, a frequent LRC visitor in the past. One of the conference co-organizers, Martin Krämer, will be an LRC visitor as of January. Apart from deconstructing palatalization, Jaye experienced the taste of reindeer and grouse, and a feeling of impending Vitamin D deficiency. (The sun never rose that week. These pictures give a sense of the light at high noon.)