PIZARRO-GUEVARA AT SEALS

This past Wednesday, May 29, Jed Pizarro-Guevara gave two presentations at the 29th meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS). The meeting was held at the KFC Hall in Tokyo, Japan. The venue has no relation with the fried chicken. His first talk was entitled “The interaction of stress, syncope, and metathesis in Dabaw Bisaya (Cebuano).” His second talk (joint work with Matt Wagers) was entitled “Two grammars of extraction in Tagalog: Evidence from acceptability judgments and quantitative models of participants’ judgment process.” He reports having lively discussions with Philippine specialists and Filipino linguists from the University of the Philippines, Diliman as well as De La Salle University.