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Linguistics Colloquium: Judith Aissen
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLinguistics Colloquium 2017-2018 Judith Aissen is Professor Emeritus in the Linguistics Department at UCSC. Her research focuses on morphosyntax, especially in the Mayan languages, especially Tzotzil, a language spoken in Chiapas, Mexico.
Linguistics Colloquium: Ashwini Deo
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLinguistics Colloquium 2017-2018 Ashwini Deo, "Alternative circumstances of evaluation and the ser/estar distinction in Spanish" Abstract: The Spanish copulas ser and estar have distributional and interpretational patterns that have resisted an adequate analysis. In this talk, I work towards a unified analysis that treats the two copulas as being presuppositional variants that are differentially sensitive […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Susan Lin
Humanities 2, Room 259The Linguistics department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. Fall 2016 May/June TBD: LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
Linguistics Colloquium: Junko Ito
Humanities 2, Room 259The Linguistics department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. Spring 2016 April 14: Junko Ito, UC Santa Cruz April 28: Ashwini Deo, Yale May 26: Susan Lin, UC Berkeley May/June TBD: LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
Faculty Research Lecture with Sandra Chung: “Language Through the Lens of Diversity”
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAcademic Senate 51st Annual Faculty Research Lecture Honors: Professor Sandra Chung "Language Through the Lens of Diversity." The ease and efficiency with which children acquire their first language(s) reveals that the capacity to know and use language is deeply human. It also raises the possibility that all languages have the same design--universal characteristics that […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Kie Zuraw
Humanities 2, Room 259The Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. Fall 2016 Nov 18: Kie Zuraw, UCLA Winter 2017 February 7: TBA March TBD: LASC: Linguistics at Santa Cruz Spring 2016 April 14: Junko Ito, UC Santa Cruz April 28: Ashwini Deo, Yale May 26: Susan Lin, UC Berkeley May/June TBD: LURC: […]
California Semantics and Pragmatics 9 (CUSP)
Humanities 2, Room 259CUSP 9 will be held at UC Santa Cruz on October 21-22, 2016. Established in 2009, CUSP serves as a venue for researchers in semantics and pragmatics to exchange ideas and receive feedback in a small, friendly, collaborative environment. For more information visit http://linguistics.ucsc.edu
Linguistics Colloquium: Akira Omaki
Humanities 2, Room 259Akira Omaki will be speaking on Developing incrementality: Grammar and parsing of wh-dependencies in children It is well established in the adult psycholinguistics literature that our comprehension is incremental: based on partial sentence input, the parser uses linguistic knowledge and multiple sources of information to assign interpretations. However, it has largely remained unknown how such […]
Linguistic Colloquium: Kyle Johnson
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLinguistic Colloquium: The Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. Fall 2015 October 9th: Keith Johnson, UC Berkeley October 16th: Heidi Harley, University of Arizona October 30th: Ivano Caponigro, UC San Diego November 20th: Elliott Moreton, University of North Carolina Winter 2016 January 15th: Sharon Inkelas, UC Berkeley February 5th: Colin Phillips, University of Maryland February […]
Hearing Gender: Stereotypes and Context in Voice Processing
When we speak, in addition to our intended linguistic message, we communicate quite a bit about ourselves, such as our perceived gender, ethnicity, region of origin, etc. Expectations about these social categories interact with our comprehension at a very basic perceptual level. In this talk I'll discuss current research on how gender stereotype affects on […]