HOW OUR READINGS ARE GROUPING THIS WEEK

s/lab: Monday, 12:00-1:00 PM, LCR: Steven Foley will lead discussion of Kush et al. (2019), “Processing of Norwegian complex verbs: Evidence for early decomposition.”

S-Circle: Thursday, 10:00-11:00 AM, LCR: Tom Roberts will give a practice talk of his SALT presentation, “I can’t believe it’s not lexical: deriving distributed factivity.”

LIP: Thursday, 12:00-1:00 PM, LCR: Stephanie Lain (UCSC Languages & Applied Linguistics) will present work in progress, titled “A comparison of the function of Spanish vowels and consonants in lexical and socioindexical processing tasks using auditory discrimination.”

MRG: Thursday, 1:00-2:00 PM, LCR: the group will discuss Siddiqi (2019), “Distributed Morphology.”

SPLAP: Thursday, 2:00-3:00 PM, STEV 217: the group will discuss Bittner (2005), “Future Discourse in a Tenseless Language.”

Phlunch and WLMA are not meeting this week.

CELEBRATING GRADUATE STUDENT ALUMNI

This year’s Distinguished Graduate Student Alumni Award Luncheon (Sat. 4/27) featured our very own Jason Merchant (University of Chicago, Ph.D. 1999), who was introduced by his adviser Jim McCloskey, and gave a spirited acceptance speech reflecting on his career and the importance of graduate education.  Besides his faculty advisors, Jim, Sandy, and Bill, and his graduate cohort, Jason mentioned former Department Manager Tanya Honig as being instrumental in guiding him through his graduate career.

From left to right: Junko Ito, Armin Mester, Jason Merchant, Jaye Padgett, Jim McCloskey, and acting Humanities Dean Karen Bassi, from whom Jason took Ancient Greek in his time at UCSC.

HOW OUR READINGS ARE GROUPING THIS WEEK

Phlunch: Monday, 10:30-11:30 AM, STEV 102: the group will discuss Myrberg and Riad (2015), “The prosodic hierarchy of Swedish.”

s/lab: Monday, 12:00-1:00 PM, LCR: Kelsey Sasaki will lead discussion of Staub et al. (2009, 2011) and Farmer et al. (2011), all discussing phonological typicality in reading.

S-Circle: Thursday, 12:00-1:00 PM, LCR: Ben Eischens will give a practice talk of his WSCLA presentation, “Tonal negation and negative elements in San Martín Peras Mixtec.”

MRG: Thursday, 1:00-2:00 PM, LCR: the group will discuss Reintges, LeSourd, and Chung (2006) “Movement, Wh-Agreement, and Apparent Wh-in-Situ.”

SPLAP: Thursday, 2:00-3:00 PM, STEV 217: the group will discuss Silk (2018), “Commitment and states of mind in mood and modality.”

WLMA: Friday, 1:20-3:00 PM, STEV 217: Tessa Scott (UC Berkeley) will give a presentation of her own work entitled, “Case and Agreement in Mam: PCC and Syntactic Ergativity Effects.”

LIP is not meeting this week.

MCPHERSON COLLOQUIUM ON FRIDAY

Laura McPherson (Dartmouth College) will give a colloquium on Friday, April 26 at 1:20 PM in Humanities 1, Room 210. Her talk is titled “Tonal adaptation across musical modality: A comparison of Sambla vocal music and speech surrogates,” and you can the details along with an abstract here.

SPOT WORKSHOP

On May 4, the Department of Linguistics at UCSC will host its second SPOT Research Cluster Workshop, a day-long workshop highlighting the Syntax-Prosody interface and Optimality Theory. The event will take place in Humanities 1, Room 210 and will feature a number of exciting presentations from invited speakers. More information about the event can be found on THI’s website.

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