Category: Events

LURC 2022

Today marks the annual meeting of the Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC). This year’s lineup featured four excellent talks by our undergraduates: (1) Animacy in Globally Ambiguous Sentences, by Briana Bugarin, Jackson Confer, Joyce Hong, Owen O’Brien, and Isabel Pacheco, (2) Local Syntactic Coherence Effects across Lexical Categories, by Sarah Lee, Sadira Lewis, Haley Okumura, (3) T-Glottalization in Utahn English, by Kim Tan, and (4) English Inversion and the EPP, by Emilio Gonzalez. All of this was followed up by another talk by distinguished alum Eric Baković: Vowel Harmony Functions, Complexity, and Interactions. The conference was a great success, and WHASC extends a congratulations and a thank you to everyone who organized and/or participated in this event. The full details can be found here.

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.

BANANA SLUGS AT CAMP 4

This weekend, many UCSC psycholinguists presented at the CAMP 4 (California Meeting on Psycholinguistics) hosted virtually by the University of California Irvine. Here were the projects presented by Banana Slugs:

“A mighty Maze! Revisiting strategic underspecification using the Maze task,” by Jack Duff, Shayne Sloggett, Nick Van Handel, Kelsey Sasaki, Stephanie Rich, Wesley Orth, Pranav Anand, Adrian Brasoveanu, and Amanda Rysling.

“Decomposing the focus effect: Evidence from reading,” by Morwenna Hoeks, Maziar Toosarvandani, and Amanda Rysling.

“Guiding Implicit Prosody with Delexicalized Melodies: Evidence from a Mismatch Task,” by Nick Van Handel, Matt Wagers, and Amanda Rysling.

“Ask Me Nicely,” by Elise Duffau and Jean E. Fox Tree.

“Hedging words in conversation,” by Allison Nguyen and Jean E. Fox Tree.

“WH-as-Intervener or Focus-as-intervener: A case study of Mandarin,” by Yaqing Cao and Jess Law.

MCPHERSON COLLOQUIUM ON FRIDAY

Laura McPherson (Dartmouth College) will give a colloquium on Friday, April 26 at 1:20 PM in Humanities 1, Room 210. Her talk is titled “Tonal adaptation across musical modality: A comparison of Sambla vocal music and speech surrogates,” and you can the details along with an abstract here.

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