Another successful LASC

On March 6, the Department hosted its annual Linguistics at Santa Cruz (LASC) conference, attended by prospective graduate students and current students, faculty and alumni. The program included presentations by several graduate students and alumna Anya Hogoboom (PhD, 2006), now Associate Professor at the College of William and Mary. 

The student presentations showcased recent research going on in the department, and sparked lively and insightful discussion during the Q & A:

• Jack Duff led off the presentations with a talk on “Restricted restriction in the relative clauses of Santiago Laxopa Zapotec.”
• Niko Webster followed with a talk on “Eventive nominals in Korean and the nature of argument structure.”
• Lalitha Balachandran and Morwenna Hoeks presented a talk entitled “Does memory for focus structure interfere with memory for prosody?”
• Dan Brodkin concluded the student presentations with his work on “Locality and extraction in Mandar.”

The Distinguished Alumna Speaker was Professor Anya Hogoboom, whose presentation “Making sense of word-final strength and weakness” argued that strong and weak behavior in final syllables is sensitive to word-final lengthening and is dependent on the role of duration in the phonological phenomenon. 

The LASC dinner and celebration that followed, on the lawn at the Cowell Provost House, was marked by delightful conversations, excellent food, and sweeping views of the Monterey Bay. 

Thank you to all of the students, staff, and faculty who contributed to making this event a success!