TWO AMPLY REWARDING MEETINGS*

As previously reported, last week saw California hosting two specialized linguistics conferences. In continuing coverage, we have first-hand reports from both events.

First, graduate student Jeff Adler reports from SoCal:

The 2016 Annual Meeting in Phonology at USC was an inspiring affair. The talks ranged in topic from Variation, to Maximum Entropy Learning, to the reality of various phonological representations. Jesse and I received very positive feedback on our poster, and I also received positive feedback on my own poster. Fellow Santa Cruzers included Brian Smith, who presented a poster with Claire Moore-Cantwell, Ryan Bennett, who gave a talk, Rachel Walker, who did a great job organizing the conference, and Eric Bakovic, who was a valiant audience participant. Rachel strongly hinted that UCSC should host the conference sometime…

For a debrief on what happened in Santa Cruz, we turn to professor Adrian Brasoveanu:

California Semantics and Pragmatics (CUSP) 9 took place on our campus last weekend (October 21-22, 2016) and it was a smashing success: great talks, very interesting discussions and the usual very warm and supportive CUSP atmosphere. Special thanks to the local UCSC organizers professor Pranav Anand and graduate students Kelsey Kraus and Margaret Kroll for making this one of the best CUSPs to date, as well as Daniel Lassiter from Stanford who generously hosted the CUSP bbq party. See you next year!

For those who weren’t there, you can experience CUSP in 10 seconds, thanks to pictures taken by Stanford graduate student and CUSP presenter Lelia Glass (thanks Lelia!).

*Sadly, it appears that all English words containing CUSP are too toothsome for a headline. A shame it wasn’t shark week.