Author: jduff

It’s our pleasure to report that two Linguistics majors have been selected to receive Deans’ Undergraduate Awards this year for their independent research.

• Clara McMahan will receive the award for the project “A pragmatic account of singular they.”
• Max Tarlov will receive the award for the project “Properties of Match and Align in Kinyambo”.

Deans’ Awards are granted every year to fifty of the most excellent undergraduate research theses or projects completed at UCSC, ten from each academic division.

Congratulations, Clara and Max!

As previously announced, UCSC will be hosting 2020’s Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP) from September 18th-20th. Along with an updated call for papers, we bring you three new pieces of news from the organizers:

1. AMP 2020 is going to be held virtually.
2. The program will now include a special workshop on intonation.
3. The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to May 22, 11:59pm PST.

You can read more on the AMP 2020 website.

LaLoCo: Tuesday, 9:00-10:00 AM: The group will continue discussing Howard & Gugger’s in-prep book on fastai.

MRG: Tuesday, 12:00-1:00 PM: The group will discuss Sande (2018), “Cross-word morphologically conditioned scalar tone shift in Guébie.”

s/lab: Tuesday, 2:00-3:00 PM: Jed Pizarro-Guevara will present on his recently-published work on Tagalog voice morphology and filler-gap resolution in collaboration with Matt Wagers.

SPLAP: Wednesday, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Adrian Brasoveanu will present on ACT-R as a framework for the processing of anaphora, drawing from Ch. 4 of Brasoveanu & Dotlacil (forthcoming).

Phlunch: Friday, 12:00-1:00 PM: Myke Brinkerhoff will present on Myrberg & Riad (2015), “The prosodic hierarchy of Swedish.”

S-Circle: Friday, 1:30-3:00 PM: The group will continue NeGroup, a mini-group on negation and neg-raising led by Jess Law and Ivy Sichel.

WLMA: Friday, 4:00-5:00 PM (exceptional time): The group will discuss Lee (2003), “Anaphoric R-Expressions as bound variables” (a paper featuring data from San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec).

Nang: Monday, 10:00-11:00 AM: Richard Bibbs will present his work on Chamorro weak pronoun placement at the syntax-phonology interface, with reference to Chung (2003), “The syntax and prosody of weak pronouns in Chamorro.”

A paper by Jed Pizarro-Guevara and Matt Wagers titled “The predictive value of Tagalog voice morphology in filler-gap dependency formation” has appeared in the latest volume of Frontiers in Psychology. Congratulations, Jed and Matt!

A paper by Jorge Hankamer and UCSC PhD alum Line Mikkelsen (UC Berkeley) titled “CP Complements to D” is now available online, to be released in the upcoming issue of Linguistic Inquiry. The article is related to the work Jorge discussed in his recent UCSC colloquium. Congratulations, Jorge and Line!

LaLoCo: Tuesday, 9:00-10:00 AM: The group will continue discussing Howard & Gugger’s in-prep book on fastai.

MRG: Tuesday, 12:00-1:00 PM: The group will discuss Ostrove (2018), “Stretching, spanning, and linear adjacency in Vocabulary Insertion.”

s/lab: Tuesday, 2:00-3:00 PM: Stephanie Rich will lead discussion of various ways of treating RT data during analysis, with particular reference to Lo & Andrews (2015) and Schramm & Rouder (2019).

SPLAP: Wednesday, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM: The group will discuss van Gompel & Majid (2004), “Antecedent frequency effects during the processing of pronouns.”

Phlunch: Friday, 12:00-1:00 PM: The group will share and collect feedback on their abstracts for AMP.

S-Circle: Friday, 1:30-3:00 PM: The group will convene for the first meeting of NeGroup, a mini-group on negation and neg-raising led by Jess Law and Ivy Sichel.

WLMA: Friday, 3:00-4:00 PM: The group will discuss Campbell (2017), “Otomanguean historical linguistics: Exploring the subgroups.”

Nang will not meet next week.

Congratulations to Maho Morimoto, who has started her two-year position as a postdoctoral researcher at NINJAL (National Institute of Japanese Languages and Linguistics).  She will be working with Haruo Kubozono’s project team on Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar.

Maho writes:

“I flew into Narita the night before the Japanese government issued a mandatory 2-week observation period for those returning from the U.S., but NINJAL wanted me to self-isolate anyways. I thought that would be a good move as a precaution too. Today (April 8th) was supposed to be my first day at NINJAL after the self-quarantine period, but the government just declared a state of emergency last night. Everyone at
NINJAL is now working from home, and it seems that I will not be going in in person anytime soon. My main task for now is to work on my own research at home. Things have been weird and the threat of the virus is disturbing, but I do appreciate this transitional period which is allowing me to plan for future research.  I can only imagine the new quarter is an extra hectic one at UCSC — I hope that everyone in the department is in good health. I miss you all.”