WHAT'S HAPPENING AT SANTA CRUZ
A weekly digest of linguistics news and events from the University of California, Santa Cruz
After the very successful PHREND on Saturday, April 6 (see the last WHASC), Junko and Armin stayed in Berkeley and gave a talk on Monday, April 8, at the Phonetics and Phonology Phorum entitled “Syntax-Prosody Faithfulness.” The Phorum talk titles and abstracts, including Junko and Armin’s, can be found here.
Congratulations are in order for several undergraduate students who graduated at the end of winter quarter and received departmental honors. Linguistics majors Brianda Caldera and Julia Jennings received this distinction, as did Language Studies major Erik Koenitzer. Congratulations, graduates!
Phlunch: Monday, 10:30-11:30 AM, STEV 102: the group will discuss Albright and Hayes (2003), “Rules vs. analogy in English past tenses: a computational/experimental study.”
s/lab: Monday, 12:00-1:00 PM, LCR: Jack Duff will lead discussion of Kazanina et al. (2007), “The effect of syntactic constraints on the processing of backwards anaphora.”
MRG: Thursday, 1:00-2:00 PM, LCR: the group will discuss Inkelas (1993), “Nimboran position class morphology.”
SPLAP: Thursday, 2:00-3:00 PM, LCR: the group will discuss chapter two of Paul Portner’s (2018) book, “Mood.”
On Saturday, April 6, linguists from around the nation flocked to UC Berkeley to attend the Phonetics and Phonology Research Weekend (PHREND). This gaggle of p-siders included several proud representatives of UCSC, and the day was truly a jovial one, including the concluding gathering hosted by Larry Hyman. A list of UCSC presentations is given below.
Talks:
Richard Bibbs: “Perceptual factors license phonological contrasts in Chamorro.”
Grant McGuire: “Typicality effects on voice recall.”
Visiting professor Gorka Elordieta (University of the Basque Country): “Phonological well-formedness constraints on the mapping from syntactic to prosodic structure in Northern Bizkaian Basque.”
Posters:
Andrew Angeles: “The road to initial accent in Kyoto Japanese trimoraic nouns.”
Jérémie Beauchamp: “Alternations in epenthetic vowel quality in Kĩsêdjê.”
Andrew Hedding: “New information and the grammar of focus: evidence from San Martín Peras Mixtec.”
Nick Van Handel: “The Italian syntax-prosody interface in Match Theory.”
Congratulations on a weekend well spent, linguists!
Pictured from left to right: Junko Ito, Nick Van Handel, Andrew Hedding, Gorka Elordieta, Grant McGuire, Richard Bibbs, Stephanie Rich, Jérémie Beauchamp, Andrew Angeles, Armin Mester, Max Kaplan, and Amanda Rysling.
Sandy Chung spent last weekend in Princeton at the Princeton Symposium on Syntactic Theory (PSST 2019), where she gave a paper on Maori negation. PSST’s theme this year was counterexamples; the papers were excellent and varied, the discussion was lively, and the food was great. PSST ran in parallel with the Princeton Phonology Forum (PPHF 2019), on gradience in phonology. One of the speakers at PPHF was alumna Rachel Walker (PhD, 1998).
From March 29-31, our growing psycholinguistics contingent managed to extract enough oxygen from Boulder’s mile-high air to deliver 8(!) successful presentations. Kudos to dynamic duo Stack Ruff for organizing the latest installment of the UMass/UCSC/UCLA party. Good times were had by all! Cruz-entations are listed in no particular order below:
Talks:
Jenny Bellik & Tom Roberts: “Remembering prosody in discourse: Verbatim memory and regeneration.”
Posters:
Stephanie Rich & Jesse Harris: “Thinking ahead has its limits: Structural prediction with correlative and quantificational ‘both.'”
Steven Foley & Matt Wagers: “Computing object agreement in Georgian is easier than computing subject agreement.”
Netta Ben-Meir, Nick Van Handel, & Matt Wagers: “Verbs retrieve subjects, not clausal attachment sites.”
Margaret Kroll & Amanda Rysling: “Evaluating truth: Experimental evidence from appositives and conjunctions.”
Amanda Rysling, Charles Clifton, Nick Van Handel, Ria Geguera, Hanna Choi and Anne Cutler: “Listeners’ predictions of sentence lengths are categorical, not gradient.”
Kelsey Sasaki: “Grammatical and pragmatic cues guide temporal interpretation in discourse.”
Shayne Sloggett, Amanda Rysling, Adrian Staub: “Linguistic focus as predictive attention allocation.”
s/lab: Monday, 12:00-1:00 PM, LCR: the group will hold a short planning meeting, and Jake Vincent will lead a tutorial on Hummingbird.
MRG: Thursday, 1:00-2:00 PM, LCR: there will be a short planning meeting to decide on readings for the quarter.
SPLAP: Thursday, 2:00-3:00 PM, LCR: the group will discuss chapter one of Paul Portner’s (2018) book, “Mood.”
Phlunch: Friday, 10:30-11:30 AM, STEV 102: Rachel Walker (USC) will give a presentation in this specially-scheduled session.
WLMA: Friday, 1:30-3:00 PM, STEV 217: Maziar Toosarvandani will present on tense and aspect in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec.
S-Circle will not be meeting this week.