Slugs’ summer research travels

Faculty Ryan Bennett spent 3 weeks doing fieldwork with speakers of A’ingae in Ecuador, with Scott AnderBois (UCSC Ph.D. 2011, now Associate Professor at Brown University). This included a week-long language documentation and conservation workshop, and experimental phonetic research on nasality in A’ingae.

Retired faculty Donka Farkas gave an invited talk “Rhetorical questions revisited” at the workshop The Semantics of Non-canonical Questions at the University of Toronto.

Fifth-year Ph.D. candidate Vishal Arvindam spent 10 days at the English and Foreign Languages University in Hyderabad as a visiting scholar conducting a visual world eye-tracking study on the processing of reflexives in Telugu. He made various academic connections within the local linguistic circle and indulged in Biryani. 

Fifth-year Ph.D. candidate Maya Wax Cavallaro traveled to Santiago Laxopa (Oaxaca, Mexico) this summer to do fieldwork on right-edge phenomena, including conversations, short narratives, and a couple of tongue twisters. She also collected data for her syntax research on control as part of a project collaborated with Jason Ostrove (Ph.D., 2018, now Faculty Affairs assistant at Harvard). She participated in various local activities, including but not limited to joining the community’s fiesta and playing piccolo in a band.