Category: Talks

BLS 41

Also at Berkeley, the 41st Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society will take place on the weekend of February 7th and February 8th. The program is available here. Grad students Nick Kalivoda and Erik Zyman will be presenting at the conference (a joint paper on The Derivation of Relative Clauses in Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec), as will recent alumnus Mark Norris (Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Oklahoma), who will present on Case-Marking on Estonian Pseudopartitives.  Also on the docket with a co-authored paper is alumnus Scott AnderBois (Assistant Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences at Brown University), who will be presenting on Fieldwork Game Play: Masterminding Evidentiality in Desano.

DISTINGUISHED PHONOLOGY VISITORS

Arrived last week in sunny Santa Cruz from the University of Tromsø, Norway, the university closest to the North Pole, is Professor Martin Krämer, who will be an LRC research visitor this quarter. Also here for just this week is Professor Alan Prince (of Rutgers University), who will be presenting some of his recent work in Armin Mester‘s phonology seminar (MW1-3pm in the Cave). If you have things phonology-related on your mind, they will both be happy to talk to you.

LSA WINTER MEETING

Meanwhile, much of the department decamped to Portland, Oregon for the 2015 Winter meeting of the Linguistic Society of America between Thursday January 8th and Sunday January 11th. There, Sandy Chung and Matt Wagers gave a joint presentation (with their collaborator Manuel F. Borja of Saipan) on Filler-gap order and online licensing of grammatical relations: evidence from Chamorro. Maziar Toosarvandani gave a presentation to the the annual meeting of SSILA (the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas), a sister society of the LSA whose meeting coincides with the Winter Meeting. Maziar’s talk was on The semantics of durative gemination in Northern Paiute. Bern Samko presented on The emphatic implicature of English verb-phrase preposing, Nate Arnett presented a poster on Interference Effects in Subject-Verb Attachment, while Anna Greenwood had the honor of presenting one of the final papers of the meeting; Anna’s talk was on Substance bias in stress pattern learning. There were in addition many Santa Cruz alumni at the Meeting, and 15 of the presentations in Portland reported on research carried out by graduate or undergraduate alums of the UCSC program.

MCGUIRE IN NEW ZEALAND

Meanwhile, Grant McGuire travelled to the other end of the earth to attend the 15th Australasian International Speech Science and Technology conference in Christchurch, New Zealand /Aotearoa. Grant presented a paper entitled, Orthographic effects on phonetic cue weighting. Grant reports:

This was a nice gathering of Antipodeans as well as North Americans and Europeans. We had a lovely conference dinner at a wildlife preserve that had Kiwi as well as many other endangered NZ species. We also got to experience a Maori pōwhiri, practice poi dancing and haka, and eat pit barbecue, called hāngi. The evening was concluded with the phonetician’s tradition of a spectrogram reading contest.To quote my hosts, it was “sweet as”!

The conference proceedings (including Grant’s paper) are already available here.

ALBRIGHT COLLOQUIUM

The final colloquium of the quarter will take place on Friday December 12th at 4pm in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge. The speaker will be Adam Albright of MIT, who will be giving a talk entitled “Testing phonological biases with Artificial Grammar learning experiments.”  The abstract for this talk can be found here.

VAN DOOREN AT S-CIRCLE

Visiting researcher Annemarie van Dooren will be giving a talk this Friday, December 5th entitled “Dutch modals and their predicates: Three puzzles for compositionality.”  This last S-Circle of the year will be held, as always, at 4pm in the LCR.  The abstract for this talk is available here.

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