Category: Events

The department’s traditional end-of-the-year celebration will take place this Friday (June 10) from 11:30 am to 1 pm in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge. After that, Santa Crucians have a busy summer ahead of them. Many students and faculty will be travelling, presenting at conferences, and doing fieldwork around the world. Some will stay put, enjoying a more quiet and contemplative summer:

• Jeff Adler will spend the summer conducting linguistic fieldwork in Santiago Laxopa, Oaxaca on the Zapotec variety spoken there. This continues the work he began in the field methods course this spring. The consultant from the course, Fe Silva-Robles, invited him to stay with her during the summer, when she will be there as well. Along with Maho Morimoto, he will be looking at various phonological issues in the language, including the interaction of tone, length, stress, and phonation. In collaboration with other students from the class, he will also examine various other topics in phonology, syntax, and semantics.
• Jennifer Bellik will participate in UCSC’s Science Internship Program. She will mentor a high school student, who will help her process the data from her ultrasound investigation of onset clusters in Turkish.
• Steven Foley will travel to Tbilisi, Georgia to conduct fieldwork and pilot a psycholinguistic experiment for his second QP. At the end of the summer, he will present a poster in Paris at the South Caucasian Chalk Circle, a workshop on Georgian and related languages.
• Nick Kalivoda will attend the Effects of Constituency on Sentence Phonology workshop at UMass Amherst this summer, where he will present a poster.
• Sandy Chung will travel to Germany in early August, where she and Matt Wagers will give a paper on Chamorro at the Sentence Processing in Multilingual and Other Less Commonly Studied Populations workshop in Potsdam. Early in September, she will be back in the CNMI, where she, Matt, and Manuel F. Borja will conduct their latest experiment.
• Donka Farkas is planning an uneventful summer in Santa Cruz reading and writing. This past spring while she was on sabbatical, she spent four weeks as a Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Visiting Professor at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, Amsterdam, working with former LRC visitor Floris Roelofsen. During her stay, she gave two colloquia (Utrecht University and ILLC) and met with colleagues and graduate students, including former LRC visitor Matthijs Westera.
• Junko Ito and Armin Mester will be in Tokyo from mid-June to mid-August to conduct research on prosody and grammar at the National Institute of Japanese Linguistics (NINJAL) with Professor Haruo Kubozono (former LRC associate) and at Keio University with Associate Professor Shigeto Kawahara (former EAP student at UCSC). In the middle of their summer stay in Japan, they will fly to UMass Amherst to participate in the Effects of Constituency on Sentence Phonology workshop (July 29-31). They look forward to meeting up with the other participants from Santa Cruz: Jim and Nick.
• Margaret Kroll will participate in the Science Internship Program for the first half of the summer. In September, she will attend Sinn und Bedeutung 21, where she will give a talk on polarity reversals under sluicing.
• Jim McCloskey will spend the first half of the summer in Ireland, and then at the very end of July will join Junko Ito, Armin Mester, and Nick Kalivoda in Amherst for the
  The Effects of Constituency on Sentence Phonology workshop.
• Grant McGuire will attend LabPhon 15 this July at Cornell University, where he will present a poster entitled “Cross-linguistic gender priming in speech processing,” along with Molly Babel and Alexandra Bosurgi. Then, in early September, he will head to County Kerry in Ireland to collect ultrasound data from native speakers of Munster Irish as part of his NSF grant, assisted by Máire Ni Chiosáin of University College Dublin. This trip is the final round of data collection for the grant.
• Ben Mericli will be spending most of the summer in Istanbul, where he’ll be searching for P-side answers to S-side questions about questions and answers in Turkish. He hopes to both elicit and answer those questions en masse.
• Jaye Padgett will be in Ireland for a week in July, working on a study of the unusual Irish “tense” sonorants with Máire Ní Chiosáin.
• Jed Pizzaro-Guevara will be in Tokyo in June to give a presentation about the role of Tagalog voice morphology in processing wh-questions at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. After a week of nom-noming in Japan, he will return to Santa Cruz to participate in UCSC’s Science Internship Program, along with Jenny, Maho, and Margaret. He will be working with Eustina Kim from Leigh High School to expand his investigation of the role of verbal agreement in processing to other A-bar dependencies.
• Bern Samko will continue her UCSC career by teaching Syntactic Structures (Linguistics 111) in the summer session.
• Maziar Toosarvandani will spend most of the summer writing and doing fieldwork in California. Towards the end, he will travel to Edinburgh with Pranav Anand to present at Sinn und Bedeutung 21 on present tense.
• Erik Zyman will return to the island of Janitzio in Michoacán, Mexico to continue working with native speakers of Janitzio P’urhepecha to elucidate aspects of the language’s syntax. He will be investigating hyperraising to subject, object shift, and their implications for the theory of movement, with a focus on what they reveal about the driving force for movement.