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Mark 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.
FreeUCSC Alumni Weekend
UC Santa CruzUC Santa Cruz is a place like no other. It was imagined from the minds of original thinkers—the rebels and visionaries, artists, scientists, and poets who had the courage to […]
Twitter 101 with Melissa De Witte
Graduate Student CommonsTwitter 101: A Hands-on Workshop Thursday, April 23 (12 – 1) at Graduate Student Commons It's impossible to ignore the word (and world of) Twitter. "Hashtag this" and "140-character that" […]
FreeLiving Writers Series: Terri Witek, Jai Arun Ravine
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 Rose Grose: “A Sexual Empowerment Process for Heterosexual and Sexual Minority Women”
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 […]
Free11th Annual Graduate Research Symposium
McHenry Library, UCSCThe Graduate Research Symposium highlights the innovative research being conducted by graduate students in our thirty-eight programs across five academic divisions. It celebrates the scholarly, creative, social and commercial impact […]
FreeCelebrating 50 Years of Literature
Kresge College Room 327In order to celebrate our tradition of working and teaching across national, linguistic, and disciplinary divides, the UCSC Literature Department is pleased host 50 Years of Literature at UCSC, an […]
Tales as Tall as the Redwoods: Reflections on UCSC's Founding Years
To commemorate UC Santa Cruz's 50th Anniversary, the Department of History has invited a few distinguished faculty emeriti and alumni to share stories about their experiences at UC Santa Cruz […]
FreeTeach In: Bettina Aptheker
Stevenson, Room 150Be a student again for an afternoon! Attend a lecture entitled "Feminism & Social Justice" from faculty professor of feminist studies Bettina Aptheker. Join fellow alums for a lively look […]
FreeBrian Connolly "The Curse of Canaan: A Fantasy of Race in the Nineteenth-Century United States"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBrian Connolly is currently working on two book projects. The first, Sacred Kin: Sovereignty, Kinship, and Religion in the Nineteenth-Century United States, excavates the relationship between national sovereignty and religion. The […]
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