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SULA 9 IS HERE

This weekend (May 6-8) brings the 9th Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas (SULA) conference to UCSC. The three-day event will feature talks and posters by speakers from around the world on languages ranging from Algonquian to Yucatec. The sessions cover degrees, evidentiality, indexicality, mirativity, modals, nominal semantics, obviation, plurality, quantification, and tense.

The invited speakers include UCSC alumna Line Mikkelsen (PhD, 2004; Berkeley), who will speak on Friday (May 6) about “Contrastive talk in Karuk.” The other invited speakers are Lisa Matthewson (UBC), Vincent Medina (Muwekma Ohlone Tribe), Sarah Murray (Cornell), and Katie Sardinha (Berkeley). The program also features talks by alumni Scott AnderBois (PhD, 2011; Brown) and Robert Henderson (PhD 2012; Arizona).

The full program for SULA 9 can be found here. Registration is free, and all talks will take place in Humanities 1 (Room 210). There will be a conference dinner on Saturday evening (7:30-9:00) at the Cowell Provost House.

ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL LASC

The department hosted another successful Linguistics at Santa Cruz (LASC) on Saturday (March 5). This year’s conference, which showcases the research of second- and third-year graduate students, featured talks and posters from every subdiscipline of linguistics with evidence from diverse languages of the world. After UCSC alumnus Ryan Bennett’s (Yale University) fascinating talk, “Stop contrasts in Kaqchikel: Production, perception, and the lexicon,” current and prospective graduate students and faculty convened at the home of Bill Ladusaw for a fun and lively dinner.

LASC 2016 presenters
LASC 2016 Presenters: Ryan Bennett, Kelsey Kraus, Maho Morimoto, Nate Clair, Steven Foley, Jeff Adler, Deniz Rudin, Ben Mericli (back row); Jason Ostrove, Jennifer Bellik, Margaret Kroll, Hitomi Hirayama (front row)

MILLER AND PIZARRO-GUEVARA AT CUNY 2016

Graduate students Chelsea Miller and Jed Pizarro-Guevara traveled to the 29th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY) at the University of Florida this past weekend (March 3-5). Both presented posters that were co-authored with Matt Wagers.

Chelsea and Matt’s poster was entitled “Limited reactivation of syntactic structure in noun phrase ellipsis.” After returning home, she reported that:

This was the first conference I’ve presented at, and it was a really fun experience. I absorbed a lot of knowledge and also met a lot of great people, including some of our extended family of UCSC alums. I saw some great posters relevant to my work with Matt, on ellipsis, content-addressability, and attraction. There was even a poster exploring attraction and NPE like mine, though, interestingly, with different results. The authors and I talked and are looking forward to collaborating in the future. The only negative, which Jed and I kept telling ourselves was a “WHASC-worthy moment,” was that our return trip involved a crazy itinerary of two delays, one cancellation, a two hour cab ride, and then finally a two-layover flight back to California. We made it, finally, and I look happily back at our CUNY experience (travel aside).

Jed and Matt’s poster was called “The role of Tagalog verbal agreement in processing wh-dependencies” (available here), and he had this to report:

CUNY was a fabulous experience (modulo the flight to get there, and the sleep-deprivation, the delays and cancellation, and the two-hour cab ride just to get back to California)! I got to talk to Austronesianists like Maria Polinsky and former banana slug Eric Potsdam (PhD, 1996), and psycholinguists interested in “field psycholinguistics.” I also got to hang out with former banana slugs Ekaterina Kravtchenko (MA, 2013), Shayne Sloggett (BA, 2010) and Caroline Andrews (BA, 2011), Aaron White (BA, 2009), and other graduate students from UCSD, Rochester, Harvard, and UMD. Looking forward to CUNY 2017 (at MIT)!

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