Author: jduff

RICH IN ICELAND

This past June, PhD student Stephanie Rich presented a talk (“The limits of forward thinking: Structural prediction with correlative and quantificational both) and a poster (“Evidence for lingering structural prediction with either-or structures”) at the workshop Psycholinguistics in Iceland – Parsing and Prediction, both with Jesse Harris (UCLA). Discussions about prediction in language processing, dramatic Icelandic landscape, and a never-setting sun were all thoroughly enjoyed.

DUFF AT BERKELEY

PhD student Jack Duff traveled to Berkeley this past Friday, October 4th, for the UC Berkeley Linguistics Department’s Syntax and Semantics Circle, where he gave a talk titled “To flip a judge: Predicates of personal taste in a commitment-based discourse model.” He was happy to receive a warm welcome and very useful questions and comments from our UC Berkeley colleagues.

HOW OUR READINGS ARE GROUPING THIS WEEK

s/lab: Tuesday, 3:00-4:00 PM, LCR: Stephanie Rich will present ongoing research with Matt Wagers.

SPLAP: Thursday, 12:00-1:00 PM, Location TBD: Jess Law will lead discussion of Brennan et al. (1987), “A centering approach to pronouns,” and Grosz et al. (1995), “Centering: A framework for modeling the local coherence of discourse.”

Phlunch: Friday, 12:00-1:00 PM, LCR: Maya Wax Cavallaro will lead discussion of Wagner et al. (2006), “Formant transitions in fricative identification: The role of native fricative inventory.”

S-Circle/WLMA and MRG are not meeting this week.

KRAVTCHENKO ZU FRAUGSTER

UCSC Linguistics alum Ekaterina Kravtchenko (MA, 2013) has accepted a position as a Data Scientist working in research and development at the fraud detection company Fraugster (Berlin). Congratulations, Ekaterina!

KROLL RECEIVES CHANCELLOR’S DISSERTATION-YEAR FELLOWSHIP

This spring, Linguistics PhD candidate Margaret Kroll received the Chancellor’s Dissertation-Year Fellowship for the 2019-20 academic year. The university writes, of the fellowships:

These state-funded, merit-based fellowships are awarded on a competitive basis to doctoral graduates who have overcome significant social or educational obstacles to achieve a college education, and whose backgrounds equip them to contribute to intellectual diversity among the graduate student population.

Congratulations, Margaret!

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