Category: Student News

GRADUATE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM

The 12th Annual Graduate Research Symposium took place last Friday (April 29), and featured several current and former linguistics graduate students. In the morning, alumna Amanda Morris (MA, 2009) was a participant in a panel discussion on “From graduate degree to innovative and meaningful work.” After graduating, Amanda worked as a Research Coordinator at the Linguistics Data Consortium for four years, before starting her current job at Google as an Analytical Linguist.

In the afternoon, seven current graduate students presented posters on their research:

  • Nate Clair: “An enriched account of differential object marking: Evidence from spoken Persian”
  • Anna Greenwood: “Phonetics or phonology? Investigating the driving force behind phonetically natural patterns”
  • Chelsea Miller: “Limited reactivation in noun phrase ellipsis”
  • Maho Morimoto: “Listener adaptation to stress misplacement in English”
  • Jason Ostrove: “The placement of agreement clitics in San Martín Peras Mixtec”
  • Jed Pizarro-Guevara: “The role of Tagalog verbal agreement in processing wh-dependencies”
  • Erik Zyman: “On the limits of syntactic movement: Hyperraising in P’urhepecha”

In addition, Chelsea Miller received the Humanities Dean’s Award for her poster!

Graduate Research Symposium presenters
This year’s Graduate Research Symposium Presenters: Anna Greenwood, Jed Pizarro-Guevara, Chelsea Miller, Nate Clair, Erik Zyman (back row); Jason Ostrove, Maho Morimoto (front row)

INCOMING GRADUATE CLASS

Welcome to the incoming graduate class for Fall 2016! Andrew Angeles, Netta Ben-Meir, Andrew Hedding, Lisa Hofmann, and Nicholas Van Handel will join the PhD program, and Mansi Desai will enter the MA program. This year’s admissions process was highly competitive, and we are excited that these excellent students will be joining our community.

OSTROVE RECEIVES FULBRIGHT GAELTACHT SUMMER AWARD

Graduate student Jason Ostrove recently received a Fulbright Gaeltacht Summer Award. Distributed through the Irish Government, these competitive grants allow Americans who study and work on Irish to travel to Gaeltachtaí regions in Ireland, where Irish remains the daily language. Jason was awarded the grant to fund research that will contribute to his dissertation work, as well as to study the language in its natural setting.

FOLEY AT CLS

This past weekend (April 21-23), graduate student Steven Foley attended the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Upon his return, Steven had this to report:

I gave a talk on my QP research titled “Morphological conspiracies and the nature of Vocabulary Insertion.” I got some helpful and positive feedback from audience members, including UCSC alum Jason Merchant. But probably what I was most proud of was tricking people into thinking my all-Microsoft Word handout was made with LaTeX. All in all it was a fun and rewarding weekend — spring was springing in Chicago, I saw some old friends, rubbed elbows with fancy linguists, and even saw Haj Ross singing karaoke at the conference banquet.

WINTER UNDERGRADUATE HONORS

Several graduates of the department in the winter quarter of 2016 were awarded honors. Mark Takehana received honors in the linguistics major. Carrie Collonge, Liliane Buschman, and Rebekah Wilson received honors in the language studies major. Congratulations to all four!

ANAND AND ZYMAN AT GLOW 39

A couple weeks ago, a couple members of the UCSC linguistics department attended Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) 39 in Göttingen, Germany (April 5-8). Natasha Korotkova (UCLA) presented joint work with Pranav Anand in a talk on “Predicates of personal taste and de re construal,” and graduate student Erik Zyman presented a poster on “Adjunct stranding, late merger, and the timing of syntactic operations.” Erik reported an interesting venue for the conference: the Paulinerkirche, whose initial construction was completed in 1304.

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