WHAT'S HAPPENING AT SANTA CRUZ
A weekly digest of linguistics news and events from the University of California, Santa Cruz
Ryan Bennett has accepted an offer to join the faculty of the Linguistics Department at Yale University, starting this Fall. Ryan will become the 10th faculty member in the Yale Linguistics Department. Congratulations, Ryan!
The university’s 8th annual Graduate Research Symposium will take place this Friday, May 11th between 1:30 and 4:30 pm, on the upstairs floor of the University Center. This year Linguistics is represented by 6 students:
SUPERHEAVY SYLLABLES: PERSPECTIVES FROM HINDI STRESS ASSIGNMENT (Poster)
Kendra BuchananEVIDENCE FOR FINAL LENGTHENING AS PROMINENCE
Nick DeschenesSTRESS AND ONSET SENSITIVITY IN MADIMADI (Poster)
Anna GreenwoodTHE ROLE OF COMMUNICATIVE EFFICIENCY IN SUBJECT OMISSION (Poster)
Ekaterina KravtchenkoTHE MATRYOSHKA’S SECRET: WHAT THE ONLINE ADAPTATION OF RUSSIAN WORDS BY ENGLISH SPEAKERS TELLS US ABOUT LOANWORD PHONOLOGY (Poster)
Allan SchwadeSTRUCTURAL DIFFERENCES IN TWO TYPES OF TURKISH RELATIVE CLAUSES (Oral)
Clara Sherley-Appel
Come learn about their work, and learn about other graduate student work going on all over campus!
Congratulations to Nataliya Munishkina, Matilda Morrison, and Shawna Mattison, who gave presentations on their HUGRA-winning research last Thursday. All three had won Humanities Undergraduate Research Awards (HUGRAs) from the Institute for Humanities Research:
Shawna Mattison, Linguistics
“New Methodologies in Psycholinguistics Research”
Mentor: Matthew Wagers, Assistant Professor of LinguisticsMatilda Morrison, Linguistics
“A Dummy in German”
Mentor: Jorge Hankamer, Professor of LinguisticsNataliya Munishkina, Linguistics
“Interaction Across Grammatical Categories: Verbs and Prepositions”
Mentor: Donka Farkas, Professor of Linguistics
Ph.D. student Matt Tucker has been a Graduate Fellow of the Institute for Humanities Research this year. This Friday, May 4th, at 4:00 pm Matt will give a colloquium talk presenting some of his research supported by the IHR. The talk will take place in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge and is entitled “Variable Agreement: The Morphosyntax of Syntactic Binding”. To read the abstract, click here.
On Monday, April 16th, Robert Henderson visited Stanford to give a talk to the linguistics department and faculty affiliated with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. He talked about “Linguists and the development agenda: Partnerships for domain specific language revitalization.” The presentation drew on both his linguistics research, as well as his work with Wuqu’ Kawoq, a bilateral health organization dedicated to bridging the quality of healthcare divide between indigenous and non-indigenous populations in Guatemala by providing services in Mayan languages.
Anie Thompson presented work on adjunct mismatches at the Workshop on (Mis)matches in Clause Linkage, held at Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) on April 13-14. The presentations were excellent and the discussion lively. Anie brings back greetings from a number of friends of UCSC Linguistics, including Luis Vicente and Shinichiro Ishihara (among others).
Many congratulations to first-year Ph.D. student Adam Morgan, who was just awarded a prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. In its own words, the NSF program “recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines”. For this three-year fellowship Adam proposes to investigate through psycholingustic experimentation the strategies by which the parser deals with resumptive pronouns in English and Irish. Another of our department’s graduate students, Katia Kravtchenko, received an honorable mention from the NSF for her proposal. Congratulations, Adam and Katia!