BENNETT AWARDED TENURE
Many congratulations are in order for Ryan Bennett, who was recently promoted to tenured Associate Professor. Congratulations, Ryan!
LINGUISTS AWARDED THI FELLOWSHIPS
The Humanities Institute (THI) at UCSC recently released the names of summer fellowship awardees, which include two graduate students in Linguistics! Margaret Kroll earned a THI Summer Research Fellowship for her project “A Matter of Perspective: Constructing Meaning and Truth,” and Thomas Roberts earned a THI Summer Dissertation Fellowship for his project “Dimensions of Belief in Verbal Semantics.” Congratulations, Margaret and Tom!
FROM PHREND TO PHORUM
After the very successful PHREND on Saturday, April 6 (see the last WHASC), Junko and Armin stayed in Berkeley and gave a talk on Monday, April 8, at the Phonetics and Phonology Phorum entitled “Syntax-Prosody Faithfulness.” The Phorum talk titles and abstracts, including Junko and Armin’s, can be found here.
DEPARTMENTAL HONORS TO RECENT GRADUATES
Congratulations are in order for several undergraduate students who graduated at the end of winter quarter and received departmental honors. Linguistics majors Brianda Caldera and Julia Jennings received this distinction, as did Language Studies major Erik Koenitzer. Congratulations, graduates!
HOW OUR READINGS ARE GROUPING THIS WEEK
Phlunch: Monday, 10:30-11:30 AM, STEV 102: the group will discuss Albright and Hayes (2003), “Rules vs. analogy in English past tenses: a computational/experimental study.”
s/lab: Monday, 12:00-1:00 PM, LCR: Jack Duff will lead discussion of Kazanina et al. (2007), “The effect of syntactic constraints on the processing of backwards anaphora.”
MRG: Thursday, 1:00-2:00 PM, LCR: the group will discuss Inkelas (1993), “Nimboran position class morphology.”
SPLAP: Thursday, 2:00-3:00 PM, LCR: the group will discuss chapter two of Paul Portner’s (2018) book, “Mood.”
CA LINGUISTS GET PHRENDLY
On Saturday, April 6, linguists from around the nation flocked to UC Berkeley to attend the Phonetics and Phonology Research Weekend (PHREND). This gaggle of p-siders included several proud representatives of UCSC, and the day was truly a jovial one, including the concluding gathering hosted by Larry Hyman. A list of UCSC presentations is given below.
Talks:
Richard Bibbs: “Perceptual factors license phonological contrasts in Chamorro.”
Grant McGuire: “Typicality effects on voice recall.”
Visiting professor Gorka Elordieta (University of the Basque Country): “Phonological well-formedness constraints on the mapping from syntactic to prosodic structure in Northern Bizkaian Basque.”
Posters:
Andrew Angeles: “The road to initial accent in Kyoto Japanese trimoraic nouns.”
Jérémie Beauchamp: “Alternations in epenthetic vowel quality in Kĩsêdjê.”
Andrew Hedding: “New information and the grammar of focus: evidence from San Martín Peras Mixtec.”
Nick Van Handel: “The Italian syntax-prosody interface in Match Theory.”
Congratulations on a weekend well spent, linguists!
Pictured from left to right: Junko Ito, Nick Van Handel, Andrew Hedding, Gorka Elordieta, Grant McGuire, Richard Bibbs, Stephanie Rich, Jérémie Beauchamp, Andrew Angeles, Armin Mester, Max Kaplan, and Amanda Rysling.
CHUNG IN PRINCETON
Sandy Chung spent last weekend in Princeton at the Princeton Symposium on Syntactic Theory (PSST 2019), where she gave a paper on Maori negation. PSST’s theme this year was counterexamples; the papers were excellent and varied, the discussion was lively, and the food was great. PSST ran in parallel with the Princeton Phonology Forum (PPHF 2019), on gradience in phonology. One of the speakers at PPHF was alumna Rachel Walker (PhD, 1998).