WHAT'S HAPPENING AT SANTA CRUZ
A weekly digest of linguistics news and events from the University of California, Santa Cruz
In a recent post on the University News, two linguistics projects led by faculty members Jaye Padgett (Production of English /r/ by prosodic position, with undergrad RAs: Claire Wellwood, Max Xie, and Tony Butorovich), and Rachel Walker (Syllable Structure in Dialects of English) were featured as part of the bigger showcase of Humanities-funded undergraduate projects.
You can read the news post here.
Our annual graduate student research and professionalization seminar, LING 290, culminated this year in two installments of the Spring Research Symposium on Friday, April 19, and Friday, April 26. The list of presenters includes:
April 19
April 26
Congratulations to all the participants in LING 290 for the wonderful progress they’ve made on their research! A big thanks to faculty Roumi Pancheva, who is the instructor of the seminar, and all faculty members who have sat in the seminar to give valuable feedback on the presentations!
Jennifer GoiAmanda Pollem
Fifth-year Ph.D. candidate Yaqing Cao presented her work “Ability Modals and Their Interactions with Negation in Mandarin Chinese” at the 36th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL 36) hosted at Pomona College, March 22-24.
On March 23-24, fifth-year Ph.D. candidate Yaqing Cao and faculty Roumyana Pancheva presented joint work as a poster at the 9th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic (Tu+9) hosted by Cornell University. Their work is titled “The three musketeers: plural marking in Turkish nominal phrases with cardinal numerals”, and you can find the abstract here.
On March 2, fifth-year Ph.D. candidate Maya Wax Cavallaro took part in this year’s Grad Slam and made it into the final round of the competition. Her talk was titled Syllables in Our Minds: Evidence from a Learning Experiment (from 1:01:02-1:07:33). Maya went through tough competition and won the Humanities Division preliminaries on Feb 7, securing a spot in the final round to compete with winners from four other divisions (Arts, Engineering, Physical and Biological Sciences, and Social Sciences).
As background, Grad Slam is a communication contest hosted by the UC Santa Cruz (and across all UC campuses) Graduate Division that is open to all graduate students, where participants have a maximum of three minutes to explain their graduate research or artistic endeavor to a general audience.
Congratulations to Maya on her wonderful performance and on showcasing linguistic research to a wide audience!
On March 11, the Department hosted its annual Linguistics at Santa Cruz (LASC) conference, attended by prospective graduate students, current students, faculty, and alumni. The program included presentations by three graduate students and alumnus Eric Potsdam (PhD, 1996), now Professor at University of Florida.
The student presentations showcased recent research going on in the department, featuring:
The Distinguished Alumnus Lecture given by Eric is on “Exceptives, Ellipsis, and Negation“.
Thank you to all of the students, staff, and faculty who contributed to making this event a success!
