Monday (04/23) at 4pm in the Conference Room: Syntax+! Isabelle Charnavel (Harvard University) will give a talk titled Adjunct Attitudes.
And if you haven’t yet registered for classes for Fall 2018, plan to do so soon! Students should be registered for Fall classes by 4/27 (this Friday).
Congratulations to Dr. Samantha Gordon Danner, who will be (re)joining the department as a Postdoctoral Scholar beginning May 1st! She will be working in the Phonetics Laboratory focusing on the area of prosody and articulatory timing.
This week, at USC Linguistics…
Monday (04/16) at 3:30pm in the Conference Room: Syntax+! Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee is going to give a talk titled “Aspectual verbs in Cantonese: Overt QR and Scope Economy.”
Thursday (04/19) at 2pm in the Conference Room: Psycholing Lab Meeting! Monica Do presents “Psych verbs amaze Monica: How the conceptual structure of psych verbs influences production planning.”
and also Thursday (04/119), at 4:30pm in GFS108: ShLAC (Language & Computation) lab meeting!
This weekend USC hosted SCAMP 2018 (Southern California April Meeting in Phonology)!
Special thanks to Hayeon Jang and Charlie O’Hara for organizing and hosting an excellent conference, and many thanks to everyone who helped and attended!
Here are some pics:
Last week, as a part of SACNAS’ (Society for Advancing Chicanos and Native Americans in Science) partnership with LAUSD, Brooke Kidner gave two talks about “Careers in Linguistics” at Thomas Alva Edison Middle School for their Career Week.
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Wednesday (04/11) from 11am-2pm in the Tutor Center: Undergraduate Research Symposium! Psycholing Lab members Catherine Wang, Carly Weaver, and Jeffrey Cho will be presenting their work at Tutor Campus Center (basement floor). Please stop by during that time to show your support and learn about the exciting research our undergrads are doing!
Thursday (04/12) at 1pm: Psycholing Lab Meeting! Ana Besserman will be giving a practice talk for the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) titled “The discourse status of existential implicit arguments: Investigating referent accessibility through sluicing”.
and also Thursday (04/12), at 4:30pm in GFS108: ShLAC (Language & Computation) lab meeting!
Many congratulations to Professor Elsi Kaiser, who has been awarded an NSF grant to investigate “Subjectivity in language processing: Linguistic and psychological aspects of perspective-taking”. This multi-year project will run until 2021! Congrats Elsi!
This past weekend, Wichita State University hosted the Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages (FASAL) 8, organized by alumna Mythili Menon!
Roumyana Pancheva was a keynote speaker, presenting “Measuring by number” Madhumanti Datta presented “Prosody-Driven Movement: Evidence from Bangla”, Bhamati Dash presented ”’Verb Stacking’ in Fragment Answers: Evidence from Hindi”, Stefan Keine and Bhamati Dash presented “Scrambling-agreement interactions and the cyclicity of Agree.”, and Stefan Keine and Rajesh Bhatt presented “A Secondary-crossover effect in Hindi”.
Congratulations to Cynthia Yoonjeong Lee, who last week successfully defended her dissertation “The Prosodic Substrate of Consonant and Tone Dynamics”!!!
On March 2nd, Andrew Simpson gave a talk as invited speaker at the Current Issues in Comparative Syntax conference held in the National University of Singapore: “Phases vs. Cyclic Linearization Spell-Out Domains: two perspectives on cyclicity.”
And this past weekend the USC Psycholinguistics Lab sent some of its members to the 2018 CUNY Sentence Processing conference in beautiful Davis, CA. Ana Besserman presented “How accessible in the discourse model are implicit arguments? An investigation using sluicing” (with Elsi Kaiser), Jesse Storbeck presented “Animacy and possession type guide interpretation of ambiguous VP ellipsis” (with Elsi Kaiser), Monica Do presented “Now You See it, Now You Don’t: Visual Cues Modulate Short vs Long Passive Production” (with Elsi Kaiser) and “Subjecthood is Privileged in Message Formulation: Real-time Production of wh-Questions in English and Mandarin” (with Elsi Kaiser and Pengchen Zhao), and Elsi Kaiser presented “Adjective interpretation across the senses: On the subjective nature of sight, smell and taste” (with Catherine Wang and Gwenyth Portillo-Wightman) and “If I were you: Inducing Non-default Interpretations of Perspective-sensitive Items in the Visual World” (Johanna Klages, Elsi Kaiser, Anke Holler and Thomas Weskott).
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Thursday 03/22 at 1pm in the Conference Room: Psycholing Lab Meeting! Sarah Lee presents “Pragmatic Enrichment during Event Comprehension: Investigating the role of context in processing inferred results”.
Brooke Kidner presented a project on Ceceo Spanish sibilant variation this Friday (03/02/18) as part of a SACNAS (Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science) collaboration with the USC and LACC chapters!
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This week at USC linguistics:
Monday 03/05 at 2pm in GFS218: Syntax+! Madhumanti Datta will give a talk titled Clausal Complementation in Bangla-Word Order and Complement Types.
at 2:30 pm in the Conference Room: PhonLunch! Khalil Iskarous will present “Phon: A single dynamical theory of representation and computation”.
and at 3:30pm in the Conference Room: Special Semantics Colloquium! Followed by dinner.
Wednesday 03/07 at 7:30pm: JUMP (Joint USC/UCLA Meeting in Phonology)! Rachel Walker on “Partial segment behavior”.
Thursday 03/08 at 1pm in the Conference Room: Psycholing lab meeting! Monica Do and Ana Besserman will do practice poster presentations for this year’s CUNY conference (http://cuny2018.ucdavis.edu/).
