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SPLAP resumed this quarter! They had their first meeting on Monday, 04/05, from 1 pm to 2 pm at this Zoom link, and discussed Chapter 4 of Alex Göbel’s (2020) dissertation, in addition to Section 3.5.2 (which gives a brief overview of the literature on QUD processing). You can download the full dissertation here.

The theme of this quarter is QUD processing. They will discuss various readings on the ways in which the presence of a particular QUD affects online interpretation and how implicit QUDs arise in context.

S/lab had their planning meeting on Monday, 03/29.

For the meeting this week (Monday, 04/05, at 11 am, Zoom link), Steven Foley (Postdoc at Princeton, UCSC Ph.D., 2020) led a discussion of Dingemanse et al. (2016), “What sound symbolism can and cannot do: Testing the iconicity of ideophones from five languages.”

Last Thursday, March 11, Amanda Rysling gave a colloquium talk on “Perception and production in the formation of vowel harmony” at Seoul National University.

Nick Van Handel received a THI Summer Research Fellowship from the Humanities Institute for his dissertation “The Sound of Silence: Investigations of Implicit Prosody.”

Congratulations, Nick!

Maya Wax Cavallaro published an article titled “The four children” in Leviathan Jewish Journal.

Leviathan Jewish Journal is an open medium through which Jewish students at UCSC and their allies may freely express their opinions.

Last Saturday, the department hosted the most recent installment of our annual conference showcasing the department’s research, Linguistics at Santa Cruz (LASC). This year, the conference featured presentations by three current PhD students, Morwenna Hoeks,  Max Kaplan, and Stephanie Rich as well as a featured talk by PhD alum Emily Manetta  (U of Vermont).

Morwenna’s talk was titled “Focus alternatives in the derivation of disjunctive questions.” Max’s talk followed, titled “Metrical opacity and restructuring in Southern Pomo syncope.” Stephanie’s talk was titled “Syntactic and semantic parallelism guides filler-gap processing in coordination.” Emily concluded the day with a talk  “Head movement, head-stranding ellipsis, and V2.”

Many thanks to the faculty, staff, and graduate students who helped make this event possible!