WHAT'S HAPPENING AT SANTA CRUZ
A weekly digest of linguistics news and events from the University of California, Santa Cruz
Many congratulations to the following five students graduating this quarter, who were awarded honors in the major. Well done!
Language Studies
Kathy Bravo
Dana Goodman
Nastassja Myer
Linguistics
Kelsey Kraus
Blake Watkins
The recent Graduate Research Symposium is the topic of this UCSC news item. Our own Allan Schwade, who won the Dean’s Award for the Humanities Division entries, is prominently featured. Well done, Allan!
Many congratulations to Mark Norris, who received two honors last week. First, Mark is our department’s winner of the UCSC Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award this year. Second, Mark is one of two Humanities graduate students at UCSC to be awarded a year-long Dissertation Fellowship from the Institute for Humanities Research. Well done, Mark!
Following up on our department’s recent hosting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), Matt Tucker has published an informative account of the conference for the Institute for Humanities Research. Read it here!
The university’s 8th annual Graduate Research Symposium took place last friday. Linguistics is proud to have been represented by 4 students:
STRESS 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
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!