WHAT'S HAPPENING AT SANTA CRUZ

We welcome nine new graduate students to the department this year. They are:

For the S/Lab meeting this week (Monday, 04/19, at 11 am, Zoom link), Jack Duff led a discussion of Wolff (2003), “Direct causation in the linguistic coding and individuation of causal events.”

SPLAP  had their third meeting on Monday, 04/19, from 1 pm to 2 pm at this Zoom link. They discussed Clifton & Frazier (2017).

For the meeting this week (Thursday, 04/22, 9:45-11:00 am, Zoom link), R/Lab will have a small group project incubator meeting.

Here is their website.

For the meeting this week (Wednesday, 04/21, at 10 am, Zoom link), Ben Eischens will present his ongoing work on tone sandhi in San Martín Peras Mixtec.  His presentation is titled “Tone sandhi, laryngealization, and vowel quality in San Martín Peras Mixtec.”

A tentative schedule can be found here.

For the meeting this week (Wednesday, 04/21, at 11 am, Zoom link), MRG will discuss Choi & Harley 2019: Locality Domains and Morphological Rules.

Their website can be found here.

The Research Seminar Symposium has been scheduled for this week (April 16, Friday, 1:30 pm -4:00 pm; April 17, Saturday, 10:30 am-2:30 pm). The Symposium is the culmination of Linguistics 290, and it is a venue for second and third-year students to present their Qualifying Papers in progress. This year, Morwenna Hoeks, Vishal Arvindam, Lalitha Balachandran, Max Kaplan, Stephanie Rich, Yaqing Cao, Dan Brodkin, Myke Brinkerhoff, Maya Wax Cavallero, and Jack Duff will be speaking on a range of topics in phonology, sentence processing, and formal semantics. Stay tuned for more information!