Author: beischen

Over the last weekend, the 24th Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) took place at the University of Maryland in College Park, MD. Participants at the conference enjoyed jovial and lively discussions of indigenous American languages alongside warm sunshine punctuated by bursts of rain. Two UCSC graduate students, Andrew Hedding and Ben Eischens, gave talks. Andrew’s talk was titled “The phonetic realization of focus in San Martín Peras Mixtec, and Ben’s was “Tonal negation and negative elements in San Martín Peras Mixtec.”

Phlunch: Monday, 10:30-11:30 AM, LCR: Max Kaplan will lead discussion on his own in-progress work, “Quantity-driven syncope and quantity-insensitive stress in Southern Pomo.”

s/lab: Monday, 12:00-1:00 PM, LCR: Shayne Sloggett (Northwestern University) will give a presentation on the Maze task.

MRG: Thursday, 1:00-2:00 PM, LCR: the group will discuss LaCara (2019), “C-command and Local Dislocation in the Danish DP: A reply to Hankamer and Mikkelsen.”

WLMA: Friday, 1:30-3:00 PM, STEV 217: Ben Eischens will lead discussion of Macaulay (1990), “Negation and mood in Mixtec.”

SPLAP, S-Circle, and LIP are not meeting this week.

This Friday, Sandy Chung will give a colloquium talk titled, “The Ingredients of Control in Chamorro.” The talk will take place on Friday, May 10, from 1:20-3:00 PM in Humanities 1, Room 210.

Jenny Bellik will defend her dissertation entitled, “Vowel Intrusion in Turkish Complex Onsets,” this Friday, May 10, at 9:00 AM in Humanities 2, Room 259.

Robert Henderson (UCSC PhD 2012) has been awarded tenure at the University of Arizona. Congratulations, Robert!

The latest issue of The Linguistic Review—Volume 36, Number One— has just appeared in print. It is a special issue, edited by Haruo Kubozono, which is devoted to Prosody and Prosodic Interfaces in Japanese and Korean and its lead article is `Pitch Accent and Tonal Alignment in Kagoshima Japanese’ by Junko Ito and Armin Mester. The paper (which is available here), examines patterns of microvariation in the pitch accent systems of dialects of Japanese spoken in Kagoshima Prefecture. It argues that the apparently very complex patterns of variation can be understood in terms of the relative ranking in the various microdialects of the basic constraints governing the distribution of two accentual melodies (HL and H).

UCSC undergraduate linguistics major Brianda Alicia Caldera was recently awarded the 2018-2019 Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award for her project, “Anglicisms: Use and Perceptions in the Tijuana-San Diego Border.” Congratulations, Brianda!