Events
Karen deVries "Queer Storytelling, Secular Religion, and the Anthropocene Blues"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWorking at the intersection of religion, science, and feminist studies, Karen deVries examines structures of knowledge and power in the Contemporary American West. Her current book project deploys queer storytelling […]
FreeDevelopment From Below: Supporting Indigenous Innovations and Knowledge Justice in Mazvihwa Communal Area, Zimbabwe
Oakes College 231Join us for a conversation with Alice Ndlovu about the community-based research and indigenous innovations currently blossoming in Mazvihwa Communal Area, Zimbabwe. Alice will give us examples of creative farming […]
FreeLiving Writer Series: Janice Lee
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Spring 2015 Living Writers Series is focused on flexible forms and mixed media. You can expect writers and artists working in and across a number of forms, and through […]
FreeFriday Forum with Evan Grupsmith: “Revolutionary Movement: Class Based Inclusion and Exclusion in the Cultural Revolution Chuanlian Movement”
Humanities 1, Room 202The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:00 to 1:30PM and will serve […]
FreeCANCELLED Linguistics Research Colloquia: Keith Johnson
About eight times each year the department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. More information on the talk will be available soon. 2014 - 2015 Speakers […]
FreeJewish Studies in the Digital Age
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and LifeAn Interactive Panel Discussion and Presentation of Work for Faculty and Graduate Students in Jewish Studies Featuring Rachel Deblinger CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow and Digital Humanities Specialist, UC Santa Cruz Ari Y. […]
FreeErnesto Chávez: "My Dear Noël": Ramón Novarro, Noël Sullivan, and the Negotiation of a Catholic/Mexican/Queer Identity
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesErnesto Chávez, Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas, El Paso, and Visiting Researcher at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, reads expressions of devout Catholicism and queer […]
FreeT.J. Demos: "Rights of Nature: The Art and Politics of Earth Jurisprudence"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesT.J. Demos’s current work explores the intersection of visual culture, art, environmental and indigenous activism, and the recent biocentric turn in law, particularly as it relates to political ecology in […]
FreeFixing the Pathological Body
Engineering 2, Room 399The medical industry leans heavily upon a distinction between the “normal” and the "pathological.” Panelists Janette Dinishak (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UCSC) Kelly Ormond (Professor of Genetics, Stanford School of […]
FreeMark Amengual: "Living in Two Languages: Lexical Effects in Bilingual Production"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn this talk I will present the results of an experiment that investigates voice onset times (VOTs) to determine if cognates enhance the cross-°©‐language phonetic influences in the speech production of a range of Spanish–English bilinguals: Spanish heritage speakers, English heritage speakers, advanced L2 Spanish learners, and advanced L2 English learners. To answer this question, lexical items with considerable phonological, semantic, and orthographic overlap (cognates) and lexical items with no phonological overlap with their English translation equivalents (non-°©‐cognates) were examined. The results indicate that there is a significant effect of cognate status in the Spanish production of VOT by Spanish–English bilinguals. These bilinguals produced /t/ with longer VOT values (more English-°©‐like) in the Spanish production of cognates compared to non-°©‐cognate words. It is proposed that the exemplar model of lexical representation (Bybee, 2001; Pierrehumbert, 2001) can be extended to include bilingual lexical connections by which cognates facilitate phonetic interference in the bilingual mental lexicon.
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