Category: Alumni News

Van HANDEL IN PHONOLOGY AND OTHER NEW PUBLICATIONS

Nick Van Handel’s paper, “Matching overtly headed syntactic phrases in Italian,” has just appeared in the journal Phonology. Congratulations, Nick!

It joins several articles that have appeared since the June issue of WHASC, including Hankamer & Mikkelsen (mentioned above) on “CP Complements to D” and Chung & Wagers on “On the universality of intrusive resumption.”

  • Jorge Hankamer, Line Mikkelsen; CP Complements to D. Linguistic Inquiry 2021; 52 (3): 473–518. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00387
  • Chung, S., Wagers, M.W. On the universality of intrusive resumption: Evidence from Chamorro and Palauan. Nat Lang Linguist Theory 39, 759–801 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-020-09493-9
  • Van Handel, N. (2021). Matching overtly headed syntactic phrases in Italian. Phonology, 38(2), 317-356. doi:10.1017/S095267572100018X

AMP’D UP SLUGS

The Annual Meeting on Phonology happened just last weekend (Oct 1-3, 2021; hosted by Toronto), and it was positively infested with banana slugs.

Jaye, Ryan, Grant, and Máire Ní Chiosáin of University College Dublin presented their poster “Russian Palatalization is [back, high], not [ATR]”.

Ben Eischens presented a poster titled “Phonology is Phonetically Grounded but not Phonetically Detailed”, and Yaqing Cao presented “Revisiting Tone Sandhi Domain in Xiamen Chinese”.

In addition, alums Anya Hogoboom (UCSC Ph.D. 2006, William & Mary College), Eric Bakovic (UCSC B.A., 1993, UC San Diego) and Nathan Sanders (UCSC Ph.D., 2003, U of Toronto) participated in the AMP Teaching Workshop.

NEDERLANDSE GROETEN VAN TOM ROBERTS

After defending his dissertation over the summer, Tom Roberts (Ph.D. 2021) began a postdoc in September in the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation at the University of Amsterdam, working with Reinhard Muskens on modeling abductive reasoning in natural language. He reports an exciting and cross-disciplinary environment at the ILLC with semanticists of all stripes, and is adjusting to life in the Old World, speaking Dutch, and biking without the constant threat of mortal peril. At the time of press, he has not yet determined whether it is possible to subsist exclusively on a diet of hagelslag and poffertjes, but this remains an area of active research.

JACKFRUIT ADOBO IN THE PIONEER VALLEY

An update from Jed Pizarro-Guevara (Ph.D. 2020), currently a postdoc at UMass-Amherst: “Now that things are sorta back to normal(ish), I’m getting to know the department here at UMass and I’m really enjoying my time here. I’m working with Brian Dillon and an RA from the University of the Philippines – Diliman and we’re currently looking at interference effects when Tagalog comprehenders process reflexive dependencies. Outside of work, I’ve been experimenting with how to veganize Filipino dishes. I have to say, jackfruit adobo is pretty good — but it still doesn’t beat pork adobo!”

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!

SANDERS TO UW

UCSC Language Studies alum Kevin Sanders (B.A., 2018) reports that he will begin a master’s program in computational linguistics in September at the University of Washington. He writes of the two-year program,

It covers computer science concepts, programming techniques, statistics, and linguistic theory. I’m excited to start! I’m happy to have an opportunity to carry the knowledge and experience I gained from the UCSC linguistics department with me to new environs.

Congratulations, Kevin!

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