A weekly digest of linguistics news and events from the University of California, Santa Cruz
s/lab: Tuesday, 3:00-4:00 PM, LCR: Kelsey Sasaki will present joint work with Amanda Rysling and Pranav Anand entitled “Wow, is that acceptable!! Acceptability judgment studies on English exclamatives.”
Phlunch: Friday, 12:00-1:00 PM, LCR: Some individual or plurality from the set including Mykel Brinkerhoff and Max Tarlov will present Dresher (2002), “Contrast and asymmetries in inventories.”
s/lab: Tuesday, 3:00-4:00 PM, LCR: Richard Bibbs will be presenting ongoing work on the production and acceptability of preposition doubling.
SPLAP: Thursday, 12:00-1:00 PM, LCR: The group will discuss Kehler & Rohde (2013), “A probabilistic reconciliation of coherence-driven and centering-driven theories of pronoun interpretation.”
Phlunch: Friday, 12:00-1:00 PM, LCR: Ben Eischens will be presenting ongoing work on glottalization and root-shortening in San Martín Peras Mixtec.
S-Circle/WLMA: Friday, 1:20-2:50 PM, LCR: Andrew Hedding and Ben Eischens will present joint work on resumptive pronouns in San Martín Peras Mixtec.
MRG: Friday, 2:50-3:50 PM, The Shed: The group will discuss Wolf (2013), “Candidate chains, unfaithful spell-out, and outwards-looking phonologically-conditioned allomorphy.”
Next Saturday, November 2nd, linguists from Stanford and UCSC will collaborate for an informal one-day workshop on negation, concord, and ellipsis next Saturday November 2 in the LRC. Attendees will hear talks from Lisa Hofmann & Ivy Sichel, Margaret Kroll & Tom Roberts, Pranav Anand, Vera Gribanova (Stanford), Jim McCloskey, and Cleo Condoravdi (Stanford), from 9:30 AM to 4:15 PM in the Linguistics Common Room, STEV 249.
This Friday, Roumyana Pancheva (USC) will give a colloquium talk. The talk will take place on Friday, November 1, from 1:20-3:00 PM in Humanities 1, room 210. It will be followed by a reception in Humanities 1, room 202.
This weekend, UCSC hosted 70 psycholinguists from across California for the third California Annual Meeting on Psycholinguistics (CAMP). Those present enjoyed a bounty of talks and posters on all topics under the psycholinguistic sun, even during a surprise Sunday power outage that left the CAMPers unexpectedly close to their acronymic namesake. Many thanks to the graduate students and faculty on the local organizing committee, and the undergraduates who donated their time to keep the meeting running smoothly.
Many UCSC researchers presented at the workshop:
UCSC Psychology PhD/Linguistics MA student Allison Nguyen presented a poster on joint work with Jean E. Fox Tree titled “Words of negotiation.”
Jed Pizarro-Guevara presented a talk on joint work with Matt Wagers titled “Word order modulates the subject processing advantage: A case study of head-initial and head-final relative clauses in Tagalog.”
Stephanie Rich presented a poster on joint work with Matt Wagers titled “Disentangling encoding interference from retrieval interference.”
Nick Van Handel presented a talk on joint work with Netta Ben Meir and Matt Wagers titled “Verbs may retrieve subjects and attachment sites.”
Jake Vincent presented a poster titled “Relative clause sub-extraction in English.”
Thanks to Jake also for taking photos throughout the workshop. Some highlights are below.
From left: Tom Roberts and Kelsey Sasaki welcome participants to CAMP.
Jed Pizarro-Guevara making some final touches to his slides.
From left: Vishal Arvindam, Lalitha Balachandran, and Nick Van Handel in a break between talks.
From left: Vic Ferreira (UCSD Psychology) and Amanda Rysling listen to Nick Van Handel’s talk during the post-electricity session on Sunday.
A bevy of UCSC linguists hard at work.
UCSC affiliates were easy to find this weekend at the golden jubilee of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS), hosted by MIT. Current PhD students Ben Eischens and Steven Foley were in attendance, as well as PhD alumni Deniz Rudin and Rachel Walker (USC Linguistics) and PhD alumnus and current LRC research associate Peter Svenonius (University of Tromso).
Ben Eischens and Steven Foley presented posters titled “A puzzle of ko-occurrence: negative indefinites in San Martín Peras Mixtec” and “The Principle of Minimal Compliance and derivational competition in South Caucasian agreement.”
Peter Svenonius and Rachel Walker gave talks titled “A span is a thing: A span-based theory of words” and “Gradient feature activity in Korean place assimilation.”
Pictured from left are Peter Svenonius, Deniz Rudin, Rachel Walker, Ben Eischens, and Steven Foley.
s/lab: Tuesday, 3:00-4:00 PM, LCR: Jack Duff will be presenting first steps in joint work with Amanda Rysling on the processing of direct discourse.
SPLAP: Thursday, 12:00-1:00 PM, LCR: Members will discuss Poesio et al. (2004), “Centering: A parametric theory and its instantiations” and Kehler & Rohde (2013), “A probabilistic reconciliation of coherence-driven and centering-driven theories of pronoun interpretation.”
Phlunch: Friday, 12:00-1:00 PM, LCR: Ryan Bennett will present electroglottography work with Nick Van Handel.