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Kelsey Sasaki has received a THI Public Fellowship for the 2020-2021 academic year to work with local nonprofit Senderos, our department’s partner in the Nido de Lenguas initiative. This select award provides financial support for UCSC graduate students in the humanities to do work that bridges the academic and public.

Kelsey writes:

I’ve received a year-long THI Public Fellowship, and will be working with Senderos, a local nonprofit that works to put Latinx students on college-bound pathways and promotes the sharing and celebration of Mexico’s cultural heritage through free classes in traditional Mexican dance and music. As a Public Fellow, my work with Senderos will range from community surveying to event planning to website design. I will also be expanding Nido de Lenguas’s online materials archive, creating new language-learning materials, and continuing to build the partnership between Nido de Lenguas and Senderos.

Congratulations, Kelsey!

Ben Eischens and Andrew Hedding are among the Humanities Institute’s 12 Summer Research Fellows for 2020. These sought-after awards support UCSC Humanities Division graduate students in research projects over the summer.

They each received grants to support their work on San Martín Peras Mixtec: Ben for his project “Negative indefinites in San Martín Peras Mixtec” and Andrew for his project “On the relationship between questions and answers: Evidence from San Martín Peras Mixtec.”

Congratulations, Ben and Andrew!

Ivona Borissova (BA, 2019) writes with an update:

I got accepted to the University of Washington as a post-baccalaureate student for Speech-Language Pathology. Through this program, I will obtain my second bachelor’s and be able to apply to a clinical master’s program. Even though this was not my original academic plan I am glad to have obtained a rich linguistics background and I am sure it will serve as a strong foundation in this program. I am thankful to all my professors who have taught me so much and miss the countless hairpulling hours spent trying to solve linguistics problems. I’m looking forward to entering a field that is familiar yet new and exploring all the research possibilities that Speech-Language Pathology has to offer.

Congratulations, Ivona!

LaLoCo: Tuesday, 9:00-10:00 AM: The group will conclude previous discussions about fastai.

MRG: Tuesday, 12:00-1:00 PM: The group will discuss Harizanov and Gribanova (2018), “Whither head movement?”

s/lab: Tuesday, 2:00-3:00 PM: Jack Duff and Stephanie Rich will lead discussion of Dillon et al. (2019), “A new argument for co-active parses during language comprehension,” as an introduction to Signal Detection Theory as an analytical tool for psycholinguistic data.

SPLAP: Wednesday, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM: TBD.

Phlunch: Friday, 12:00-1:00 PM: Yaqing Cao will discuss her recent work on tone sandhi in Wenzhounese. EDIT: Yaqing’s presentation has been postponed, but Phlunch will meet for an informal coffee hour.

WLMA: Friday, 3:00-4:00 PM: Visiting presenters Iara Mantenuto (UCLA) and Octavio Léon Vásquez (UIEM) will present “Comparatives and Superlatives in Yucuquimi de Ocampo Mixtec: Preliminary Observations.” NB: The meeting will be in Spanish. EDIT: The meeting will be in English, with questions taken in English and Spanish.

Nang: Monday, 10:00-11:00 AM: Jed Pizarro-Guevara will lead discussion of Richards (2017), “Tagalog prosody and scrambling.”

S-Circle will not meet this week.

The Humanities Institute’s latest Undergraduate Profile features an interview with senior Linguistics major Max Tarlov, discussing his research in prosody, and his experience as a researcher and student in our department, and his 2019-2020 THI Undergraduate Fellowship. You can read the article here.

An article by Julie Franck (Geneva) and Matt Wagers has appeared in the online open-access journal PLOS ONE, titled “Hierarchical structure and memory mechanisms in agreement attraction.” Congratulations, Matt!

LaLoCo: Tuesday, 9:00-10:00 AM: The group continued previous discussions.

MRG: Tuesday, 12:00-1:00 PM: The group discussed Norris (2018), “Non-autonomous accusative case in Estonian.”

s/lab: Tuesday, 2:00-3:00 PM: Steven Foley led discussion of Bornkessel-Schlesewksy & Schlesewksy (2009), “The role of prominence information in the real-time comprehension of transitive constructions: A cross-linguistic approach.”

SPLAP: Wednesday, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM: The group continued to discuss material from Ch. 9 of Brasoveanu & Dotlacil (2020), in particular section 9.3.

Phlunch: Friday, 12:00-1:00 PM: Netta Ben Meir will present on the syntax-prosody of Hebrew construct state nominals.

S-Circle: Friday, 1:30-3:00 PM: Adrian Brasoveanu will present a talk titled “Reinforcement learning for production-based cognitive models.”

WLMA: Friday, 3:00-4:00 PM: Dan Brodkin will lead discussion of Adler et al. (2018), “The derivation of verb initiality in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec.”

Nang will not meet next week.