Category: Announcements

Assistant Professor Mark Amengual of the Department of Languages and Applies Linguistics is looking for an undergraduate student with experience conducting acoustic analyses in Praat. The project examines the production abilities of Spanish-English bilinguals. The RA would help with the data analysis of the production data. Scripting abilities in Praat are preferred, but not required. The RA will receive a sum amount of approximately $2,800 and the work is scheduled to start as soon as possible. I am estimating a total of 180 hours of work across the winter and spring quarters. Anyone interested in this position, please contact Prof. Amengual at amengual@ucsc.edu.

As we mentioned in the January 9 volume of WHASC, the deadline for the Dizikes Award nominations is fast approaching. The call is repeated below:

Since 2002, the Dizikes Award has been given each year to a faculty member in the Humanities Division for their commitment and effectiveness in transformative teaching and effective mentoring of both undergraduate and graduate students. In addition to receiving the award, recipients have the honor of selecting an undergraduate student to receive a scholarship in their name. Past recipients include Pranav Anand in 2016, Donka Farkas in 2013, Jorge Hankamer in 2011, and Jaye Padgett in 2006. Current students and recent alumni are now invited to nominate faculty for the 2016 award. According to the call, “Nominations should address the faculty member’s ability to arouse curiosity in students, to encourage high standards, and to stimulate students to original and rigorous work though guidance and mentoring. Other criteria include creating an inclusive learning environment that is open and encouraging to all students, relating the subject to other fields of knowledge and making the learning relevant to experience outside the academy.” Nominations must include a single-page form, available here, along with a one-page narrative. Nominations should be submitted to the the Linguistics Undergraduate Coordinator Matthew MacLeod by February 6th, 2017. If you are considering a nomination, you are encouraged to consult with Matthew for guidance.

Language Identity and Perception (LIP) Reading Group is a Phonetics reading and discussion group, primarily focusing on issues surrounding speech perception and talker identity in various populations, languages and varieties. We gather almost (but not quite) every week to discuss an experimental paper that no one in the group has read before. LIP is an interdepartmental group, including faculty and students from the Linguistics Department and the Languages and Applied Linguistics Department at UCSC.

This quarter, we will be meeting on Fridays at 11am. Our first meeting of the quarter is scheduled on January 27th. If you are interested in joining the group mailing list, please contact Maho Morimoto: mamorimo@ucsc.edu. Meeting schedule and locations will also be updated on the LIP website.

Since 2002, the Dizikes Award has been given each year to a faculty member in the Humanities Division for their commitment and effectiveness in transformative teaching and effective mentoring of both undergraduate and graduate students. In addition to receiving the award, recipients have the honor of selecting an undergraduate student to receive a scholarship in their name. Past recipients include Pranav Anand in 2016, Donka Farkas in 2013, Jorge Hankamer in 2011, and Jaye Padgett in 2006. Current students and recent alumni are now invited to nominate faculty for the 2016 award. According to the call, “Nominations should address the faculty member’s ability to arouse curiosity in students, to encourage high standards, and to stimulate students to original and rigorous work though guidance and mentoring. Other criteria include creating an inclusive learning environment that is open and encouraging to all students, relating the subject to other fields of knowledge and making the learning relevant to experience outside the academy.” Nominations must include a single-page form, available here, along with a one-page narrative. Nominations should be submitted to the the Linguistics Undergraduate Coordinator Matthew MacLeod by February 6th, 2017. If you are considering a nomination, you are encouraged to consult with Matthew for guidance.