Month: March 2021

Last Thursday, March 11, Amanda Rysling gave a colloquium talk on “Perception and production in the formation of vowel harmony” at Seoul National University.

Nick Van Handel received a THI Summer Research Fellowship from the Humanities Institute for his dissertation “The Sound of Silence: Investigations of Implicit Prosody.”

Congratulations, Nick!

Maya Wax Cavallaro published an article titled “The four children” in Leviathan Jewish Journal.

Leviathan Jewish Journal is an open medium through which Jewish students at UCSC and their allies may freely express their opinions.

Last Saturday, the department hosted the most recent installment of our annual conference showcasing the department’s research, Linguistics at Santa Cruz (LASC). This year, the conference featured presentations by three current PhD students, Morwenna Hoeks,  Max Kaplan, and Stephanie Rich as well as a featured talk by PhD alum Emily Manetta  (U of Vermont).

Morwenna’s talk was titled “Focus alternatives in the derivation of disjunctive questions.” Max’s talk followed, titled “Metrical opacity and restructuring in Southern Pomo syncope.” Stephanie’s talk was titled “Syntactic and semantic parallelism guides filler-gap processing in coordination.” Emily concluded the day with a talk  “Head movement, head-stranding ellipsis, and V2.”

Many thanks to the faculty, staff, and graduate students who helped make this event possible!

This past weekend, March 4-6, several slugs transcended their corporeal forms to join the psycholinguistics community for the 34th CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, hosted entirely online by UPenn.

Because of the digital format of the conference, all presentations are fully archived, and we invite anyone who missed the conference to take a look below!

Presentations by current members of the department included:

A main session talk by Stephanie Rich on joint work with Matt Wagers, titled “Syntactic and semantic parallelism guides filler-gap processing in coordination.” You can watch it here, beginning at 00:03:00.

A parallel session talk by Jack Duff on joint work with Adrian Brasoveanu and Amanda Rysling, titled “Task influences on lexical underspecification: Insights from the Maze and SPR.”  You can view the abstract here.

A parallel session talk by Nick Van Handel on joint work with Lalitha Balachandran, Stephanie Rich, and Amanda Rysling, titled “Singular vs. Plural Themselves: Evidence from the Ambiguity Advantage.” You can view the abstract here.

A parallel session talk by Nick Van Handel on joint work with Matt Wagers and Amanda Rysling, titled “Guiding Implicit Prosody with Delexicalized
Melodies: Evidence from a Match/Mismatch Task.” You can view the abstract here.

A parallel session talk by Morwenna Hoeks on joint work with Maziar Toosarvandani and Amanda Rysling, titled “Decomposing the focus effect: Evidence from reading.” You can view the abstract here.

From next year, The Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing is officially updated as The Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing.

Mykel Brinkerhoff received a THI Summer Research Fellowship from the Humanities Institute for his project “Prosodic and Phonetic considerations in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec.”

Maya Wax Cavallaro also received a THI Summer Research Fellowship for her project “Stress, Tone, and Prosodic Structure in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec.”