Month: May 2019

UCSC undergraduate linguistics major Brianda Alicia Caldera was recently awarded the 2018-2019 Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award for her project, “Anglicisms: Use and Perceptions in the Tijuana-San Diego Border.” Congratulations, Brianda!

On May 17-19, the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics at UCSC presents the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse, which will take place each night at 8:00 PM in the Stevenson Event Center. The event, which is a program of multilingual theater pieces, will be performed by Language students and directed by their instructors. More information on the event can be found here.

This Friday, May 10, from 9:00-4:00 PM, the UCSC Spring Data Science Day will take place in Engineering 2, Room 180. The event focuses on responsible data science and data science for social good. There promise to be many talks by UCSC faculty and students, as well as a poster session and a keynote talk by Mehran Sahami (Stanford University).

s/lab: Monday, 12:00-1:00 PM, LCR: Steven Foley will lead discussion of Kush et al. (2019), “Processing of Norwegian complex verbs: Evidence for early decomposition.”

S-Circle: Thursday, 10:00-11:00 AM, LCR: Tom Roberts will give a practice talk of his SALT presentation, “I can’t believe it’s not lexical: deriving distributed factivity.”

LIP: Thursday, 12:00-1:00 PM, LCR: Stephanie Lain (UCSC Languages & Applied Linguistics) will present work in progress, titled “A comparison of the function of Spanish vowels and consonants in lexical and socioindexical processing tasks using auditory discrimination.”

MRG: Thursday, 1:00-2:00 PM, LCR: the group will discuss Siddiqi (2019), “Distributed Morphology.”

SPLAP: Thursday, 2:00-3:00 PM, STEV 217: the group will discuss Bittner (2005), “Future Discourse in a Tenseless Language.”

Phlunch and WLMA are not meeting this week.