Walker in Japan
On March 25, Professor Rachel Walker gave a talk at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL) titled “Stress and non-transparency in vowel harmony: The role of prosodic gestures and locality.” Rachel’s trip coincided with cherry blossom (sakura) season in Tokyo!
UC Santa Cruz reunion dinner
A reunion dinner for UC Santa Cruz folks took place after Rachel’s talk. In attendance were PhD alumni Motoko Katayama (1998), Maho Morimoto (2020), and Philip Spaelti (1997), as well as Professor Emerita Junko Ito and Haruo Kubozono (Visiting Scholar, 1994-95, currently Professor Emeritus at NINJAL).
