Month: March 2021

R/lab will have their final meeting of this quarter at 9:00 am on Friday, 03/12, at this Zoom link. Mykel Brinkerhoff will lead a discussion of  Rizzi, L. (2004) and Belletti, A., & Rizzi, L. (2013)

 

 

Phlunch will have their usual meeting at 2:00 pm, Thursday, 03/11 at this Zoom link. Maya Wax Cavallaro will be leading a discussion on Myers & Padgett (2014), “Domain generalization in artificial language learning,” as well as presenting her own connected work in Tz’utujil (Mayan).

S/lab will meet at 8:00 am on Tuesday, 03/09 at this Zoom link. Rebecca Tollan will be presenting a talk titled, “Unifying anti-subject effects.”

A tentative schedule can be found here.

 

For the final WLMA meeting of the winter quarter, Dan Brodkin and Justin Royer (McGill) gave a presentation titled, “Ergative Anaphors and High Absolutive Syntax.” As usual, they met on Monday (3/8) from 1-2 pm at this Zoom link.

Jaye Padgett was interviewed by Monterey County NOW on the usages of two words, alien and noncitizen. The original article can be found here.

Phlunch will have a special meeting at 3:00 pm Friday time at this Zoom room. Our recent alumna Jenny Bellik will give a talk titled “Vowel intrusion, not epenthesis, in Turkish onset clusters: Ultrasound and acoustic evidence”.

 

 

R/lab will have their fourth meeting at 9:00 am on Friday, 03/05, at this Zoom link. They will discuss a new paper by Sasaki, Foley, Pizarro-Guevara, Silva-Robles, Toosarvandani, and Wagers: “Eye-tracking evidence for a universal parsing principle in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec.”