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Linguistics graduate students and faculty reconnecting after a busy summer of research

The Department gathered for its annual fall welcome event this past Friday (September 23) at the Cowell Provost House. The warm, sunny weather and spectacular views of the Monterey Bay provided the perfect setting for returning faculty and graduate students to catch up — and for them to welcome the department’s newest members to campus. 

This fall, five new graduate students joined the Department: Ian Carpick, Yağmur Kiper, and Richard Wang started on the PhD track, and Duygu Demiray and Larry Lyu on the MA track. In addition, the Department officially welcomed Delaney Gomez-Jackson, Matthew Kogan, and David Tuffs to the MA program, after their completion of the graduate coursework as BA students.

The Department also welcomed two new faculty members: Mia Gong, who started as Assistant Professor this fall, and Haoze Li, who is serving as Visiting Assistant Professor this academic year.

Students and faculty had a lot to share with each other, after what sounded like some busy summers of research. In the coming weeks, we will be sharing updates about what they were up to with you. Stay tuned!

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.

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This Friday, May 21, from 1:20 to 3pm, Roumyana Pancheva (USC) will give the last departmental colloquium of the year! Stay tuned for Zoom information.

This Sunday, May 19, UCSC’s Nido de Lenguas was in attendance at the Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza, an annual Oaxacan cultural festival put on by local cultural non-profit Senderos. The event featured Oaxacan cultural music, dance, and food, and many of the attendees enjoyed learning about the languages of Oaxaca at the Nido booth. Thank you to all who volunteered for another successful Guelaguetza celebration!