A weekly digest of linguistics news and events from the University of California, Santa Cruz
Jake Vincent defended his dissertation on Monday, Jun 7th at 10:00 AM. His dissertation is titled “Extraction from Relative Clauses: An Experimental Investigation of Variable Island Effects in English.”
Congratulations, Jake!
This week (Thursday, 06/10, 9:45-11:00 am, Zoom link), the Contextual Animacy proposal group gave a presentation of their research plans.
Here is their website.
This week (Wednesday, 06/09, at 10 am, Zoom link), Ora Matushansky (CNRS) gave a talk on Russian stress.
Ksenia Ershova (Stanford) will give a talk titled “What a polysynthetic language can tell us about wh-movement and Phase Theory: Possessor extraction in West Circassian” on Friday, June 4th, 10:00 am-11:30 am.
The volume on Parameters of Predicate Fronting, co-edited by Vera Lee-Schoenfeld (2005 alumna, U of Georgia) and Dennis Ott (U of Ottawa) is going to be published as part of the Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax series on June 11. It also includes a chapter titled Verb Phrase I-topics in German, co-authored by Anya Hogoboom (2006 alumna, College of William & Mary) and Vera Lee-Schoenfeld.
Congratulations, Vera and Anya!
Congratulations to Sage Meadows (B.A. in Linguistics), Miranda Ying (B.A. in Linguistics), Katharina Pierini (B.A. in Language Studies), and Sydney Roberts (B.A. in Language Studies) for graduating in Spring 2021 and receiving departmental honors!
This weekend, many UCSC psycholinguists presented at the CAMP 4 (California Meeting on Psycholinguistics) hosted virtually by the University of California Irvine. Here were the projects presented by Banana Slugs:
“A mighty Maze! Revisiting strategic underspecification using the Maze task,” by Jack Duff, Shayne Sloggett, Nick Van Handel, Kelsey Sasaki, Stephanie Rich, Wesley Orth, Pranav Anand, Adrian Brasoveanu, and Amanda Rysling.
“Decomposing the focus effect: Evidence from reading,” by Morwenna Hoeks, Maziar Toosarvandani, and Amanda Rysling.
“Guiding Implicit Prosody with Delexicalized Melodies: Evidence from a Mismatch Task,” by Nick Van Handel, Matt Wagers, and Amanda Rysling.
“Ask Me Nicely,” by Elise Duffau and Jean E. Fox Tree.
“Hedging words in conversation,” by Allison Nguyen and Jean E. Fox Tree.
“WH-as-Intervener or Focus-as-intervener: A case study of Mandarin,” by Yaqing Cao and Jess Law.