Category: Events

SETH YALCIN’S SCLP VISIT

The Linguistics and Philosophy traffic goes in two directions however. We want to remind our readers that Seth Yalcin of the Department of Philosophy at Berkeley will be visiting the campus and the department this week, under the auspices of SCLP. On Wednesday November 13 at 5:15pm in Stevenson 249, there will be a discussion group on Yalcin’s 2007 paper in Mind on epistemic modality; and on Thursday November 15, Professor Yalcin will present in the philosophy colloquium series on Epistemic Modality De Re (4:00 pm, Humanities One, Room 210).

GRIBANOVA AT BLS

The 40th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society will take place between February 7th and February 9th 2014 on the Berkeley campus. This year’s Special Session will be on Approaches to the Syntax-Phonology Interface and among the four invited speakers is Vera Gribanova of Stanford. Vera completed the PhD at UCSC in 2010 and is now Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Stanford. The call for papers for BLS 40 is available here .

WORKSHOP ON APPLYING FOR GRADUATE PROGRAMS

If you are an undergraduate considering applying to graduate programs, you should know that the department will be offering a workshop in its Career Workshop series on Applying to Graduate School for Linguistics and Language Studies majors. The main presenter will be PhD student Jason Ostrove who recently (and successfully) completed the process himself. The workshop will be held on Tuesday, November 5th from 4pm until 5pm in Stevenson 249. No rsvp needed; just show up!

ITO AND MESTER AT MIT CONFERENCE

Junko Ito and Armin Mester attended M@90 (a conference on metrical structure: text-setting and stress) (Sept. 20-21), a celebration of Morris Halle’s 90th birthday organized by Mike Kenstowicz and Donca Steriade, where they presented some of their recent work on the role of supersized units in prosody (like superheavy syllables or HL trochees). Armin reports:

Besides the many fascinating talks and the sheer enjoyment of a splendidly organized conference, there was a whole group of UCSC-related folks to catch up with (Adam Albright, Ryan Bennett, Lev Blumenfeld, and Takashi Morita). The high point of the conference was Morris Halle’s closing presentation (on the morphophonology of the Latin verb). The speaker was not only very graciously introduced by Noam Chomsky (with touching reminiscences going back to their days as graduate students at Harvard many years ago), but went on to give a very lucid and well-argued talk, and defended his position very well in the ensuing question period. An amazing performance “@90”!
Some pictures here.

SALT 24 (NYU)

We have been asked to spread the word that the next SALT (Semantics and Linguistic Theory) conference, the 24th, will be hosted by the Linguistics Department of New York University on May 30 through June 1, 2014. This year’s invited speakers are Emmanuel Chemla of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, Valentine Hacquard of the University of Maryland, Lauri Karttunen of Stanford University, and Sarah Moss of the University of Michigan.

The conference will be preceded by a series of tutorials on Formal Semantics Beyond Spoken Language on May 29. The abstract submission deadline is Monday, December 2, 2013, 11:59 pm EST. Detailed instructions are available at the conference website, which is also linked to (along with many other conferences) from the sidebar to your right.

RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY FOR UNDERGRADUATES

Dom Massaro, Professor of Psychology and architect of Baldi, a computer-animated talker, has a new research opportunity for undergraduates on relating ease of articulation to children’s vocabulary acquisition. The goal is to mine existing databases that consist of vocabulary development across the first years of life and relate these results to metrics of ease of articulation. Theoretical questions include testing the motor theory of speech perception and whether a similar representation for receptive and expressive language can be assumed. Students would enroll in Psychology 194 (Advanced Research In Special Projects). Dom can be reached at Massaro@ucsc.edu.

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