Slugs at Centennial LSA Meeting

UCSC Linguistics was well-represented at the centennial Linguistics Society of America meeting that took place in the heart of New York, NY, from Jan 4-7.

• Talk-wise, Professor Jaye Padgett presented joint work with faculty members Ryan Bennett and Grant McGuire and collaborator Máire Ní Chiosáin and alum Jenny Bellik (Ph.D. 2019), entitled “Articulatory correlates of perceptual and typological asymmetries in palatalization: an ultrasound study of Irish“.
• Fifth-year Ph.D. candidate Dan Brodkin presented work on “VP Constituency in the Phonology: Evidence from Mandar“.
• First-year Ph.D. student Ruoqing Yao gave a talk titled “Resumptive pronouns in islands show confusability advantage effect” in collaboration with Ph.D. alum (2006) Anya Hogoboom (William & Mary). Anya Hogoboom also presented a separate talk on “Realizations of [j] vs. hiatus in different vocalic contexts“.
• First-year Ph.D. student Aidan Katson‘s presented a talk on “Vowel nasalization does not cue ambisyllabicity in American English nasal consonants: evidence from nasometry” in collaboration with Jose Alvarez Retamales, Sarah Rose Bellavance, Lisa Davidson (NYU), Amanda Eads, Alden McCollum, and Auromita (Disha) Mitra.

Poster-wise, fifth-year Ph.D. candidate Yaqing Cao presented a poster on “Modals and negations LF-PF (mis)matches in English and Mandarin” and second-year Ph.D. student Richard Wang presented a poster on “Distribution of neutral tone and retroflex lenition in Beijing Mandarin“.

Also in attendance were Profs. Matt Wagers and Maziar Toosarvandani, Robert Henderson (U. of Arizona, Ph.D. 2012), Caroline Andrews (U. of Zurich, B.A. 2011), Maura O’Leary (Swarthmore College, B.A. 2013).