Successful LURC 2024
On June 7, the annual Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC) took place at the London Nelson Center in downtown Santa Cruz. LURC showcases a variety of linguistic research by UCSC undergraduates majoring in Language Studies and Linguistics.
This year’s LURC features nine posters:
- Monique Aingworth, Julia Helmer, Grace Nighswonger: The impact of coordination ambiguity on garden path sentences
- Amenia Denson: Mixed directionality in A’ingae nasal spreading
- Samuel Almer: Pre-nasal raising patterns in California English
- Killian Kiuttu: Color harmony in Dolgan
- Amanda Pollem, E.Z. Dashiell, Jennifer Hernandez, Jordy Chanon, Valen Munson: Specificity and constraint in word prediction
- Cal Boye-Lynn: Chasing phantoms of auditory bias
- Andrew Kato: Restricting the scope of a relative measure
- Millie Hacker: The gradual deletion hypothesis: Evidence from variable denasalization in Hixkaryana
- Benjamin Sommer, Samuel Almer, Michael Proctor (Macquarie University), Rachel Walker (Faculty): Annotating acoustic speech data with MATLAB tools
This year’s distinguished alumni speaker is Prof. Kirby Conrod (BA, 2011, now Assistant Prof. at Swarthmore College), who gave a talk titled “Pronoun Euphoria”.
Congrats to everyone on their achievement, and thank you to all the faculty and volunteers who contributed to organizing the conference!
Prof Matt Wagers giving an opening speech as the department chair
