A weekly digest of linguistics news and events from the University of California, Santa Cruz
For the meeting this week (Wednesday, 04/28, at 10 am, Zoom link), Niko Webster will be leading a discussion of two short proceedings papers: “The Auditory Kappa Effect in a Speech Context” (Brugos & Barnes, 2012) & “Effects of dynamic pitch and relative scaling on the perception of duration and prosodic grouping in American English” (Brugos & Barnes, 2014).
A tentative schedule can be found here.
For the meeting this week (Wednesday, 04/28, at 11 am, Zoom link), MRG will discuss Matushansky 2006: Head Movement in Linguistic Theory.
Their website can be found here.
This week (Thursday, 04/29, 9:45-11:00 am, Zoom link), Andrew Hedding will lead a discussion of Sichel 2014: Resumptive pronouns and competition.
Here is their website.
This week (Friday, 04/30, 9 am, Zoom link), Mykel Brinkerhoff will lead a discussion of Silverman 1998: Laryngeal complexity in Otomanguean vowels.
For the S/Lab meeting this week (Monday, 04/26, at 11 am, Zoom link), Yaqing Cao led a discussion of Alexopoulos & Keller (2007), “Locality, Cyclicity, and Resumption: At the Interface between the Grammar and the Human Sentence Processor.”
On Friday and Saturday, the Santa Cruz linguistics community convened virtually for the Graduate Research Symposium, 2021. It served as a showcase for the work of second- and third-year graduate students participating in the annual Research Seminar (LING 290). The audience enjoyed nine talks on topics from phonology, syntax, and semantics to sentence processing, and researchers were grateful for useful questions and feedback.
Thanks to all those who helped coordinate the event, and in particular LING 290 instructor Ivy Sichel. We look forward to continuing this tradition next year!
The featured talks included:
Ellipsis, reciprocity, and discourse: a QUD-based account of argument mismatches (Lalitha Balachandran)
Processing long-distance reflexives in Telegu (Vishal Arvindam)
Seeking grammar in phonotactic processing (Max Kaplan)
Great expectations, denied (Stephanie Rich)
WH-as-intervener or F-as-intervener: A case study of Mandarin focus intervention (Yaqing Cao)
Two steps to high absolutive syntax (Dan Brodkin)
Motivations for Scandinavian negative indefinite shift (Myke Brinkerhoff)
Sonorant devoicing in Tzutujil (Mayan) (Maya Wax Cavallero)
Composing associated motion in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec (Jack Duff)
This Friday, Dr. Michelle Sheehan (Anglia Ruskin University, UK) will give a colloquium talk. The talk will take place on Friday, April, 23rd at 9:00 am via Zoom (Stay tuned for the Zoom and talk information!).