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SUMMARY:LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
DESCRIPTION:Towards the end of the spring quarter each year\, the Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC) showcases the research of the department’s undergraduate students. This conference always features as an invited speaker\, a distinguished alumnus or alumna of the department.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lurc-linguistics-undergraduate-research-conference/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180518T133000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Meghan Sumner
DESCRIPTION:“Usage-based linguistic models and understanding human behavior” \nThe past three decades of research in phonetics and psycholinguistics have led to great advances in our understanding of language\, representation\, and the relationship between language and other cognitive domains. While debates certainly still exist\, we can take as established that how often and in what context different speech patterns occur influence both memory and processing. The question now is what we do with this rich foundation. \nIn this talk\, I present a few\, short examples of how usage-based approaches to phonetics and psycholinguistics help us understand social biases and human behavior. I provide some evidence showing that phonetically-cued talker information (e.g.\, emotion\, gender) directly activates lexical items\, providing us with some insights into the timing and availability of this\ninformation. The purpose of this first part is to illuminate the complexity of experiencing linguistic events from the perspective of a listener. \nFor the remainder of the talk\, I move away from phonetics\, taking the basic insights from the studies initially presented (e.g.\, that we are pattern recognizers) to question assumptions about language use and experience and ask how our understanding of language use\, semantic associations and culture can inform society at large. Specifically\, I spend the last large chunk of\nthis talk investigating how we can understand the refugee experience through the lens of spoken language comprehension. \nMeghan Sumner is an associate professor of Linguistics at Stanford University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-meghan-sumner-stanford/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Liz Coppock\, Boston Univeristy
DESCRIPTION:Liz Coppock is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Boston University\, specializing in semantics and pragmatics. Her research concerns the meanings of small words in various languages\, the invisible forces that give complex expressions their meanings\, and sometimes even the nature of meaning itself. \nAs Principal Investigator of the Swedish Research Council project Most and more: Quantity superlatives across languages\, she maintains a part-time position as biträdande lektor at the University of Gothenburg\, in the department of Philosophy\, Linguistics\, and Theory of Science\, where she has worked since 2012. \nShe received a B.A. in Linguistics from Northwestern University in 2002 and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford University in 2009. She became Docent in Linguistics through the University of Gothenburg in December 2013. (“Docent” is the Swedish equivalent of a German “Habilitation”\, a post-Ph.D. qualification\, regardless of what Google Translate might have you believe.) \nAbstract: \nThis paper focuses on languages in which a superlative interpretation is typically indicated merely by a combination of a definiteness marker with a comparative marker\, including French\, Spanish\, Italian\, Romanian\, and Greek (‘DEF+CMP languages). Despite ostensibly using definiteness markers to form the superlative\, superlatives are not always definite-marking in these languages\, and the distribution of definiteness-making varies across languages. Constituently structure appears to vary across languages as well. To account for these patterns of variation\, we identify conflicting pressures that all of the languages in consideration may be subject to\, and suggest that different languages prioritize differently in the resolution of these conflicts. What these languages have in common\, we suggest\, is a mechanism of Definite Null Instantiation for the degree-type standard argument of the comparative. Among the parameters along which languages are proposed to differ is the relative importance of marking uniqueness vs. avoiding determiners with predicates of entities that arrant individuals.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-liz-coppock-boston-univeristy/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180427T080000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Pronouns in Competition Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Pronouns in Competition \nLong distance dependencies involving pronouns have figured prominently both in theories of competence and in theories of performance. Bringing these diverse lines of inquiry closer together is a challenging\, yet fundamental\, goal for linguistic theory. In this workshop we propose to study the role(s) that competition and optimality may play in these domains. \nThe idea that the distribution of pronouns\, even some aspects of their interpretation\, may be governed by competition with a more optimal alternative\, is not new. However\, so far relatively little progress has been made towards a general theory of pronominal competitions and especially on the question of how the candidate set for comparison is determined. We propose to broaden the empirical domain of inquiry by considering pronominal competitions of various kinds\, and across languages: between pronouns and anaphors\, pronouns and gaps in A-bar dependencies\, pronouns and demonstratives\, overt vs. null pronouns\, pronouns and definite descriptions (in ‘Condition C’ effects) and so on. \nThe idea that competition plays a role in sentence processing has long been recognized and it is inherent in computational models of constraint satisfaction as well as in theories of encoding and retrieval from working memory. In the past decade especially\, the empirical breadth of sentence processing research on pronouns has increased dramatically. And interestingly there are many recent experiments on bound pronouns (primarily reflexives\, but also resumptives) that give evidence that initial interpretive processes can be selective and non-competitive. So an important goal of the workshop will be to consider whether or how notions of competition that can explain distributional facts about pronouns are related to mechanisms of sentence production and comprehension. We also hope that discussions which take place might guide future explorations of the territory. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganizers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJim McCloskey\, Ivy Sichel & Matt Wagers
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-pronouns-competition-workshop/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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SUMMARY:Peter Svenonius: Linguistics at Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:Every year towards the end of the Winter Quarter\, the Linguistics at Santa Cruz conference showcases the research of second and third year graduate students. This conference coincides with a visit to campus of prospective graduate students\, and it always features as an invited speaker\, a Ph.D. alum of the department. This year’s invited speaker is Peter Svenonius (PhD\, 1994)\, Professor of English Linguistics & Senior Researcher at the University of Tromsø. \nClick here for more information.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-at-santa-cruz-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180302T133000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Kristen Syrett\, Rutgers University
DESCRIPTION:“Experimental evidence for context sensitivity in the nominal domain: What children and adults reveal” \nAbstract: Part of what it means to become a proficient speaker of a language is to recognize that the context in which we communicate with each other\, including what a speaker’s intentions or goals are\, affects the way we arrive at certain interpretations. This seems entirely reasonable for context-dependent expressions like pronouns (they) or relative gradable adjectives (big\, expensive)\, but what about seemingly stable expressions\, such as count nouns (fork\, ball)? Are words like these—words that appear early in child-directed and child-produced speech—also sensitive to context? In collaborative research with Athulya Aravind (MIT)\, we have asked precisely this question. We start with a curious yet robust puzzle observed in the developmental psychology literature: young children\, when presented with a set of partial and whole objects (like forks) and asked to count or quantify them\, appear to treat the partial objects as if they were wholes (Shipley & Shepperson 1990\, among others). While children’s non-adultlike behavior may be taken to signal a conceptual shift in development\, we adopt a different perspective\, entertaining the possibility that children are doing something that adults might indeed be willing to do in certain instances\, and that their response patterns reveal something interesting about the context sensitivity of nouns\, which we argue is similar to that seen with gradable adjectives. Across three tasks\, we show that adults and children are more alike than the previous research has revealed: both age groups not only include partial objects but also impose limits on their inclusion in a category\, depending on the speaker’s intentions or goals and the perceptual representation of the object\, and a comparison with gradable adjectives reveals (perhaps surprisingly) that adults recruit a minimum standard of comparison for nominals. Thus\, we argue there is conceptual and linguistic continuity in this aspect of development\, and that experimental data from both children and adults sheds light on the semantics of nominal expressions.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kristen-syrett-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180216T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180216T152000
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SUMMARY:Adam Ussishkin: "Roots\, or consonants? On the early role of morphology in lexical access"
DESCRIPTION:Words consist of a phoneme or letter sequence that maps onto meaning. Most prominent theories of both auditory and visual word recognition portray the recognition process as a connection between these units and a semantic level. However\, there is a growing body of evidence in the priming literature suggesting that there is an additional\, morphological level that mediates the recognition process. In morphologically linear languages like English\, however\, morphemes and letter or sound sequences are co-extensive\, so the source of priming effects between related words could be due to simple phonological overlap as opposed to morphological overlap. In Semitic languages\, though\, the morphological structure of words reduces this confound\, since morphemes are interdigitated in a non-linear fashion. Semitic words are typically composed of a discontiguous root (made up of three consonants) embedded in a word pattern specifying the vowels and the ordering between consonants and vowels. Active-passive pairs in Maltese illustrate this relationship (the root is underlined); e.g.\, fetaħ ‘open’-miftuħ ‘opened’. In this talk\, I report on a series of experiments on the Semitic language Maltese investigating the extent to which root morphemes facilitate visual and auditory word recognition\, and to what extent potential priming effects are independent of the phonological overlap typically inherent in morphological relationships. These experiments make use of the visual masked (Forster and Davis\, 1984) and auditory masked (Kouider and Dupoux\, 2005) priming techniques. The results of the experiments show that not only do roots facilitate visual and auditory word recognition in Maltese\, but that these morphological effects are independent of phonological overlap effects. \nAdam Ussishkin is associate professor in the Department of Linguistics\, with appointments in the UA Cognitive Science program\, the UA Second Language Acquisition and Teaching program\, the Department of Middle Eastern and North African Studies\, The Arizona Center for Judaic Studies\, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. His research focuses on the lexicon\, and is informed by psycholinguistic experimentation\, as well as formal and laboratory phonology and morphology. Much of the research he conducts centers on Semitic languages\, especially Maltese and Modern Hebrew. He also works on corpus creation and evaluation.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/adam-ussishkin-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180119T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180119T152000
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SUMMARY:Martina Wiltschko: "Nominal speech act structure. A personal view."
DESCRIPTION:The concept of person is in many ways tied to speech acts. This is obvious just by exploring the interpretation of\npronouns: 1st person pronouns are used to refer to the speaker\, 2nd person pronouns are used to refer to the addressee\,\nand 3rd person is used for individuals other than the speech act participants. Another way in which person plays a\nrole for speech acts has to with the fact that in much of the current literature that seeks to “syntacticize speech acts”\n(Ross 1970\, Speas and Tenny 2003\, Zu 2013\, Miyagawa 2017\, a.o.) speech act participants are part of the syntactic\nrepresentation of sentences\, as evidenced\, for example\, by speaker or addressee-agreement. However\, 1st and\n2nd person pronouns can receive an impersonal interpretation (Gruber 2013\, Zobel 2014) while still triggering\ngrammatical agreement for 1st and 2nd person. This suggests that there are at least two notions of person: one purely\ngrammatical and the other pragmatic in nature. \nIn this talk I examine yet another way in which person may be tied to speech acts. In particular\, assuming the well-\nestablished parallel between the functional architecture of clauses and nominal projections (Chomsky 1970\, Abney \n1987\, Grimshaw 2005\, Rijkhoff 2008)\, we might expect that – just as clauses – nominal projections too are\ndominated by a dedicated speech act structure. Specifically\, I will argue that the arguments of (clausal and nominal)\nspeech act structure do not correspond to speech act participants directly\, but instead they correspond to each speech\nact participant’s ‘ground’ – hence I assume a speaker- and addressee-oriented projection. The function of this layer\nof structure is to encode the mutual process of grounding – the joint activity which allows interlocutors to establish\ncommon ground. To support this hypothesis\, I review literature from dialogue based frameworks according to which\nreferring to an individual is a collaborative effort between speaker and addressee (Clark and Wilkes-Gibbs 1986\,\nClark and Bangerter 2004). With this as my background assumption\, I discuss the implications of the nominal\nspeech act hypothesis for a number of empirical phenomena including: impersonals\, logophors\, and social deixis. \nMartina Wiltschko is Professor of Linguistics at the University of British Columbia.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/martina-wiltschko-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171118T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171118T170000
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SUMMARY:SPOT (Syntax-Prosody in OT) Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \nThis is a one-day IHR-sponsored workshop (Saturday\, Nov. 18\, 2017)\, called SPOT (“Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory”\, which is part of a research project aiming to create a computational platform that generates prosodic candidate sets from syntactic structure. The syntax-prosody interface is the study of how syntactic (grammatical) structures are mapped onto the prosodic structures in different languages. Several strands of work in prosodic theory have recently converged on a number of common themes\, from different directions\, broadly couched in Optimality Theory. Selkirk (2011) has developed a vastly simplified approach to the syntax-prosody mapping which distinguishes only three levels (word\, phrase\, and clause)\, and syntactic constituents are systematically made to correspond to phonological domains (“Match Theory”). In an independent line of research\, a long string of papers reaching back into the 1980s has convincingly demonstrated that recursive structures are by no means an exclusive property of syntax\, but also play a crucial role in phonology. One of the hallmarks of Match Theory is the idea that the main force interfering with syntax-prosody isomorphism is not some kind of non-isomorphic mapping algorithm flattening out the structure\, as first contemplated in SPE (Chomsky and Halle 1968\, 372) and more fully worked out in later proposals\, such as the edge-based theory built on one-sided alignment. It is rather the effect of genuine phonological wellformedness constraints on prosodic structure. \nBesides presenting the pilot SPOT program for comments\, the workshop will consist of research talks focused on the syntax-prosody interface by both invited speakers from the East Coast and Europe and Bay Area researchers. \nMore information about the IHR SPOT Research Cluster: http://ihr.ucsc.edu/portfolio/syntax-prosody-in-optimality-theory-spot/ \nPROGRAM \nSPOT Program: Saturday\, Nov. 18\, 2017 \n9:15am – 10:00am Pre-workshop coffee/tea\, bagels\, pastries and fruit \n10:00am -11:00am “Match Theory and the Asymmetry Problem: Intonational phrase marking in Stockholm Swedish” (abstract and handouts)\nShinichiro Ishihara (Lund University) \n11:15am -12:00pm “Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory” (abstract and handouts) Jenny Bellik and Nick Kalivoda (UC Santa Cruz) \n12:00pm -1:00pm Mexican buffet lunch \n1:00pm – 2:00pm“Syntactic Constituency Spell-Out through Match Constraints” (abstract and handouts)\nLisa Selkirk (UMass/Amherst) \n2:15pm – 3:00pm“Syntactic Constituency Spell-Out through Match Constraints” (abstract and handouts)\nNicholas Rolle (UC Berkeley) \n3:00pm -3:30pm Coffee Break \n3:30pm – 4:15pm“Syntactic Constituency Spell-Out through Match Constraints” (abstract and handouts)\nRyan Bennett\, Jim McCloskey (UC Santa Cruz)\, and Emily Elfner (York University) \n4:30pm – 6:30pm Post-workshop reception \nFor more information contact Junko Ito (ito@ucsc.edu) or Armin Mester (mester@ucsc.edu)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/spot-syntax-prosody-in-ot-workshop-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171117T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171117T180000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Brian Dillon
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics presents: \nBrian Dillon \n“Process and representation in morphosyntactic processing: A psychophysical approach using Signal Detection Theory”\n \nAbstract:\nIntuitive acceptability judgments have long formed the empirical foundation of syntactic and (to a lesser extent) psycholinguistic theories (Schütze\, 1996). Despite their centrality\, there remain many open issues in the collection\, analysis\, and interpretation of acceptability judgment data. One important thread of research in experimental syntax addresses these issues by borrowing methodology from psychophysics\, such as magnitude estimation (Bard et al. 1996; Cowart\, 1997)\, to more precisely model the relationship between linguistic stimuli and perceived acceptability. \nIn this talk I will follow these researchers in treating intuitions of acceptability as psychological evidence. Accordingly\, I will argue that acceptability judgments can be fruitfully understood as psychophysical data. To this end\, I will describe a framework for analyzing acceptability judgment data using Signal Detection Theory (Bader & Haussler\, 2010; Macmillan & Creelman\, 2005). This approach offers an explicit model of how the underlying percept of acceptability is reflected in experimental measures of acceptability\, such as judgments in a rating task. \nTo illustrate this approach\, I survey a series of studies that investigate diverse illusory agreement licensing phenomena (“agreement attraction”) in English using untimed acceptability judgment measures (joint work with Charles Clifton\, Christopher Hammerly\, Joshua Levy\, and Adrian Staub). I report several results. First\, untimed judgment measure mirror the patterns seen in more ‘online’ measures of sentence comprehension. Second\, the untimed judgment data exhibit surprisingly little evidence of contamination from slow\, ‘deliberative’ processes (cf. Bader & Haussler\, 2010). Third\, and perhaps most interestingly\, this analysis of the judgment data yields unique insights into the cognitive processes and representations that underly agreement attraction effects. In particular\, the judgment data lend support to models that analyze illusory agreement errors as the result of mis-identification of an agreement controller in working memory (e.g. Badecker & Kuminiak\, 2007; Wagers et al.\, 2009)\, rather than models that locate the error in a noisy representation of the morphosyntactic features of the agreement controller (e.g. Eberhard\, Cutting & Bock\, 2005).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-brian-dillon-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171020T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171020T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T114901
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Judith Aissen
DESCRIPTION:Linguistics Colloquium 2017-2018 \nJudith 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.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-judith-aissen-uc-santa-cruz-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171006T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171006T180000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Ashwini Deo
DESCRIPTION:Linguistics Colloquium 2017-2018 \nAshwini Deo\, “Alternative circumstances of evaluation and the ser/estar distinction in Spanish” \nAbstract: 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 to properties of the circumstances at which the truth of the copular sentence is evaluated. On the proposed analysis\, estar presupposes that the prejacent is boundedly true at the evaluation circumstance. The prejacent’s bounded truth at a circumstance i at a given context of use c depends on two conditions: \n(a) there are no-weaker alternative circumstances i′ accessible at c where the prejacent is false\, and \n(b) i is a maximal verifying circumstance at c. \nCentral to the analysis is the notion of a strength ordering over alternative circumstances of evaluation — a circumstantial counterpart to the more familiar ordering over alternative propositions. Assuming that this content is conventionally associated with estar allows for an account of its distinct flavors and readings with a range of predicates. ser is shown to be associated with its own inferences that derive from its status as the presuppositionally weaker\, neutral member of the pair. \nAshwini Deo is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Ohio State University. \nAbout eight times each year\, the department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. Unless otherwise stated\, talks take place on Fridays in Humanities 1\, Room 210 at 4 p.m. during the fall quarter 2017 and at 2:30 p.m. during winter and spring quarters 2018.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ashwini-deo-alternative-circumstances-of-evaluation-and-the-serestar-distinction-in-spanish-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170526T024000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170526T154000
DTSTAMP:20260430T114901
CREATED:20161004T212534Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161004T212534Z
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Susan Lin
DESCRIPTION:The Linguistics department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFall 2016 \nMay/June TBD: LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistic-colloquium-susan-lin-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170414T144000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170414T154000
DTSTAMP:20260430T114901
CREATED:20161004T212225Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161004T212225Z
UID:10006405-1492180800-1492184400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Junko Ito
DESCRIPTION:The Linguistics department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nSpring 2016 \nApril 14: Junko Ito\, UC Santa Cruz \nApril 28: Ashwini Deo\, Yale \nMay 26: Susan Lin\, UC Berkeley \nMay/June TBD: LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistic-colloquium-junko-ito-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170207T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170207T200000
DTSTAMP:20260430T114901
CREATED:20161004T211951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161004T211951Z
UID:10006404-1486494000-1486497600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Faculty Research Lecture with Sandra Chung: “Language Through the Lens of Diversity”
DESCRIPTION:Academic Senate 51st Annual Faculty Research Lecture Honors:\nProfessor Sandra Chung \n  \n“Language Through the Lens of Diversity.” \nThe 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 make language acquisition possible. Are these views challenged by the great diversity of the world’s languages? In this talk\, Sandra Chung explores this question from the perspective of Chamorro\, an understudied language spoken in Micronesia. She suggests that while language diversity is real\, language universals emerge when ‘small’ languages are investigated in the same depth as first-world languages. \n  \nAbout the Faculty Research Lecture: The Faculty Research Lecture started in 1967. Lecturers are nominated by the Committee on Faculty Research Lecture based on a distinguished record in research and asked to deliver a lecture upon a topic of their choice.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistic-colloquium-faculty-research-lecture-2/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, Music Center\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161118T144000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161118T154000
DTSTAMP:20260430T114901
CREATED:20161004T211609Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161004T211609Z
UID:10005272-1479480000-1479483600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Kie Zuraw
DESCRIPTION:The Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFall 2016 \nNov 18: Kie Zuraw\, UCLA \nWinter 2017 \nFebruary 7: TBA \nMarch TBD: LASC: Linguistics at Santa Cruz \nSpring 2016 \nApril 14: Junko Ito\, UC Santa Cruz \nApril 28: Ashwini Deo\, Yale \nMay 26: Susan Lin\, UC Berkeley \nMay/June TBD: LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistic-colloquium-kie-zuraw-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161021
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161023
DTSTAMP:20260430T114901
CREATED:20161004T211048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161004T211048Z
UID:10005271-1477008000-1477180799@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:California Semantics and Pragmatics 9 (CUSP)
DESCRIPTION:CUSP 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. \nFor more information visit http://linguistics.ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistic-colloquium-cusp-california-universities-semantics-pragmatics-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161007T144000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161007T154000
DTSTAMP:20260430T114901
CREATED:20161004T210834Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161004T210834Z
UID:10005270-1475851200-1475854800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium: Akira Omaki
DESCRIPTION:Akira Omaki will be speaking on Developing incrementality: Grammar and parsing of wh-dependencies in children \nIt 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\nsuch incremental processing mechanisms emerge during development\, or how the immature\nparsing mechanisms affect the course of grammar acquisition. In this talk\, I will present recent\nstudies in my lab that explore these questions for wh-dependencies. In the first part of the talk\, I\nwill discuss how the mis-adoption of wh-scope marking grammar in English-speaking children\n(Thornton\, 1990) could derive from incremental processing of wh-dependencies. I argue that\nwhile this is theoretically feasible\, the apparent scope-marking grammar may be a production-\nspecific phenomenon\, and that it does not result from a mis-set parameter\, at least in English. In\nthe second part of the talk\, I will explore how incremental mechanisms for wh-dependency\nprocessing develop through language experience. Our visual world eye-tracking studies show\nthat 5-year-old children do not complete wh-dependencies incrementally\, but incremental\ndependency processing emerges after production (but not comprehension) priming of such\ndependencies. I will discuss implications of these findings for theories of language acquisition\nand language processing. \nThe Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFall 2016 \nOct 21 & Oct 22: CUSP (California Universities Semantics & Pragmatics) \nNov 18: Kie Zuraw\, UCLA \nWinter 2017 \nFebruary 7: TBA \nMarch TBD: LASC: Linguistics at Santa Cruz \nSpring 2016 \nApril 14: Junko Ito\, UC Santa Cruz \nApril 28: Ashwini Deo\, Yale \nMay 26: Susan Lin\, UC Berkeley \nMay/June TBD: LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistic-colloquium-akira-omaki-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160520T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160520T150000
DTSTAMP:20260430T114901
CREATED:20151015T192724Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20151015T192724Z
UID:10006287-1463752800-1463756400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Linguistic Colloquium: Kyle Johnson
DESCRIPTION:Linguistic Colloquium: \nThe Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFall 2015\nOctober 9th: Keith Johnson\, UC Berkeley\nOctober 16th: Heidi Harley\, University of Arizona\nOctober 30th: Ivano Caponigro\, UC San Diego\nNovember 20th: Elliott Moreton\, University of North Carolina \nWinter 2016\nJanuary 15th: Sharon Inkelas\, UC Berkeley\nFebruary 5th: Colin Phillips\, University of Maryland\nFebruary 6th: N. Goodman\, Stanford University and A. Kehler\, UC San Diego\nMarch 5th: Linguistics Conference at Santa Cruz Conference \nSpring 2016\nApril 15th: Sabine Iatridou\, MIT\nApril 29th: Paul Kiparsky\, Stanford University\nMay 6\, 7\, 8: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 9\nMay 20th: Kyle Johnson\, University of Massachusetts\nMay 27th/June 3rd (TBA): Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistic-colloquium-kyle-johnson-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160517T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160517T170000
DTSTAMP:20260430T114901
CREATED:20160507T180740Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160507T180740Z
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SUMMARY:Hearing Gender: Stereotypes and Context in Voice Processing
DESCRIPTION: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 voice processing impact our understanding of the speech communication system. \nFor more information contact Peter Reed\, pmreed@ucsc.edu\, 831-459-1026.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/hearing-gender-stereotypes-and-context-in-voice-processing-3/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160429T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160429T150000
DTSTAMP:20260430T114901
CREATED:20151015T192521Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20151015T192521Z
UID:10006286-1461938400-1461942000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Linguistic Colloquium: Paul Kiparsky
DESCRIPTION:Linguistic Colloquium: \nThe Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFall 2015\nOctober 9th: Keith Johnson\, UC Berkeley\nOctober 16th: Heidi Harley\, University of Arizona\nOctober 30th: Ivano Caponigro\, UC San Diego\nNovember 20th: Elliott Moreton\, University of North Carolina \nWinter 2016\nJanuary 15th: Sharon Inkelas\, UC Berkeley\nFebruary 5th: Colin Phillips\, University of Maryland\nFebruary 6th: N. Goodman\, Stanford University and A. Kehler\, UC San Diego\nMarch 5th: Linguistics Conference at Santa Cruz Conference \nSpring 2016\nApril 15th: Sabine Iatridou\, MIT\nApril 29th: Paul Kiparsky\, Stanford University\nMay 6\, 7\, 8: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 9\nMay 20th: Kyle Johnson\, University of Massachusetts\nMay 27th/June 3rd (TBA): Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference \n\n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/21748-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160418T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160418T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T114901
CREATED:20160413T212356Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160413T212356Z
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SUMMARY:La Ironía y Anticlericalismo En Halma
DESCRIPTION:UCSC Spanish Studies and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics Present: \nLA IRONÍA Y ANTICLERICALISMO EN HALMA \nÁLVARO ROMERO MARCO (UCSC) \nMás allá de las clasificaciones y evoluciones que la crítica ha venido realizando\, la novelística de Galdós es consecuencia de su ideología\, pues la realidad es observada y transformada a través de su apuesta por la modernidad. En el caso de Halma\, los pilares que sustentan la enseñanza que quiere trasmitir el autor son la distancia socarrona y un convencido anticlericalismo; una ironía sin acidez y siempre constructiva y una desconfianza en la institución eclesiástica que nunca significa un ataque a la visión religiosa de la existencia. Tradicionalmente esta novela\, que Ediciones Alfar tiene a bien ofrecer al lector\, ha sido editada y analizada a la sombra de la famosa “segunda manera” y\, particularmente\, como la segunda parte de Nazarín. Esta edición presenta la obra aislándola de esas ataduras para que pueda ser leída de manera independiente. En cualquier caso\, no hay duda de que Halma es otra de las grandes novelas del autor. \n\n\n*Light refreshments will be served.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/la-ironia-y-anticlericalismo-en-halma-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160415T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160415T140000
DTSTAMP:20260430T114901
CREATED:20160407T022434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160407T022434Z
UID:10005233-1460728800-1460728800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Sabine Iatridou - "Fake Things Here and There: Evidence From Now and Then"
DESCRIPTION:Sabine Iatridou is Professor of Linguistics\, Syntax\, Semantics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  See here for more about Professor Iatridou’s work. \nStay tuned for more information. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sabine-iatridou-fake-things-here-and-there-evidence-from-now-and-then-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160305T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160305T173000
DTSTAMP:20260430T114901
CREATED:20151015T191601Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20151015T191601Z
UID:10006284-1457170200-1457199000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Linguistics at Santa Cruz (LASC) 2016
DESCRIPTION:Every year towards the end of the Winter Quarter\, the Linguistics at Santa Cruz conference showcases the research of second and third year graduate students. This conference coincides with a visit to campus of prospective graduate students\, and it always features as an invited speaker\, a Ph.D. alum of the department. This year’s invited speaker will be Ryan Bennett (Ph.D. 2012) an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Yale University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-conference-at-santa-cruz-3/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160205T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160205T150000
DTSTAMP:20260430T114901
CREATED:20151015T190838Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20151015T190838Z
UID:10006283-1454680800-1454684400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Colin Phillips: "Speaking\, understanding\, and the architecture of language"
DESCRIPTION:We speak and understand the same language\, but it’s generally assumed that language production and comprehension are subserved by separate cognitive systems. So they must presumably draw on a third\, task-neutral cognitive system (“grammar”). So comprehension-production differences are a thorn in the side of anybody who might want to collapse grammar and language processing mechanisms (i.e.\, me!). In this talk I will show how the same underlying mechanism can have rather different surface effects in speaking and understanding. In production\, I will discuss studies in English and Japanese that show syntactically constrained look-ahead in sentence planning\, and that show that syntactic category acts as a strong filter on lexical access. In comprehension\, I will discuss ERP studies in English\, Mandarin\, and Japanese that illustrate surprisingly “dumb” word prediction mechanisms. These predictive mechanisms are nevertheless subject to the same category constraint observed in sentence production\, as reflected in different effects of case marker manipulation.\n  \nLinguistic Colloquium: \nThe Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFall 2015\nOctober 9th: Keith Johnson\, UC Berkeley\nOctober 16th: Heidi Harley\, University of Arizona\nOctober 30th: Ivano Caponigro\, UC San Diego\nNovember 20th: Elliott Moreton\, University of North Carolina \nWinter 2016\nJanuary 15th: Sharon Inkelas\, UC Berkeley\nFebruary 5th: Colin Phillips\, University of Maryland\nFebruary 6th: N. Goodman\, Stanford University and A. Kehler\, UC San Diego\nMarch 5th: Linguistics Conference at Santa Cruz Conference \nSpring 2016\nApril 15th: Sabine Iatridou\, MIT\nApril 29th: Paul Kiparsky\, Stanford University\nMay 6\, 7\, 8: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 9\nMay 20th: Kyle Johnson\, University of Massachusetts\nMay 27th/June 3rd (TBA): Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistic-colloquium-colin-phillips-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160115T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160115T150000
DTSTAMP:20260430T114901
CREATED:20151015T190630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20151015T190630Z
UID:10006282-1452866400-1452870000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Sharon Inkelas: "The A-map model: Articulatory reliability in child-specific phonology"
DESCRIPTION:This talk\, based on joint work with Tara McAllister Byun and Yvan Rose\, addresses a phenomenon of longstanding interest: the existence of child-specific phonological patterns which are not attested in adult language. We propose a new theoretical approach\, termed the A(rticulatory)-Map model\, to account for the origin and elimination of child-specific phonological patterns. Due to the performance limitations imposed by structural and motor immaturity\, children’s outputs differ from adult target forms in both systematic and sporadic ways. The computations of the child’s grammar are influenced by the distributional properties of motor-acoustic traces of previous productions\, stored in episodic memory and indexed in the eponymous A-map. We propose that child phonological patterns are shaped by competition between two essential forces: the pressure to match adult productions of a given word (even if the attempt is likely to fail due to performance limitations)\, and the pressure to attempt a pronunciation that can be realized reliably (even if phonetically inaccurate). These forces are expressed in the grammar by two constraints that draw on the motor-acoustic detail stored in the A-map. These constraints are not child-specific\, but remain present in the adult grammar\, although their influence is greatly attenuated as a wide range of motor plans come to be realized with a similar degree of reliability. The A-map model thus not only offers an account of a problematic phenomenon in development\, but also provides a mechanism to model motor- grammar interactions in adult speech\, including in cases of acquired speech impairment. \nSharon Inkelas is Professor of Linguistics at UC Berkeley.\n  \nLinguistic Colloquium Series: \nThe Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFall 2015\nOctober 9th: Keith Johnson\, UC Berkeley\nOctober 16th: Heidi Harley\, University of Arizona\nOctober 30th: Ivano Caponigro\, UC San Diego\nNovember 20th: Elliott Moreton\, University of North Carolina \nWinter 2016\nJanuary 15th: Sharon Inkelas\, UC Berkeley\nFebruary 5th: Colin Phillips\, University of Maryland\nFebruary 6th: N. Goodman\, Stanford University and A. Kehler\, UC San Diego\nMarch 5th: Linguistics Conference at Santa Cruz Conference \nSpring 2016\nApril 15th: Sabine Iatridou\, MIT\nApril 29th: Paul Kiparsky\, Stanford University\nMay 6\, 7\, 8: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 9\nMay 20th: Kyle Johnson\, University of Massachusetts\nMay 27th/June 3rd (TBA): Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistic-colloquium-sharon-inkelas-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151120T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151120T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T114901
CREATED:20151015T190118Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20151015T190118Z
UID:10006281-1448028000-1448035200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Elliott Moreton: "Implicit and Explicit Learning of Phonotactic Patterns"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nWhat properties are shared by the processes used for learning linguistic and non-linguistic patterns? What properties are different? Research on non-linguistic (mainly visual) pattern learning has found distinct implicit and explicit processes which have different computational architectures\, are facilitated by different experimental conditions\, and differ in sensitivity to different pattern types. Is the same true of phonological pattern learning (“artificial-language” experiments)? \nExperiment 1 asked whether implicit and explicit process are both available to human learners of a phonological pattern\, and whether the same experimental conditions favor one over the other as in non-linguistic pattern learning. The pattern involved binary gender assignment conditioned by a single phonological or semantic feature. Training conditions were manipulated in ways which\, in analogous non-linguistic experiments\, have been found to elicit more implicit or explicit learning. Participants’ responses were duly shifted towards one or the other\, as measured by self report of strategy\, report of the correct rule\, abruptness of learning curves\, acceleration of response times after the last error\, and bimodality of generalization performance. However\, the shift was not categorical; some implicit and some explicit learners were found in both experimental conditions. \nExperiment 2 asked whether explicit and implicit processes differed in sensitivity to structurally different patterns. In visual pattern learning\, explicit learning has typically been found to be more sensitive to two-feature exclusive-or patterns (red XOR triangle) than to three-feature family-resemblance patterns (at least two of red\, triangle\, or small)\, and a large modelling literature has been dedicated to accounting for the exclusive-or advantage. Conditions which favor implicit learning reduce or reverse the exclusive-or advantage (reviewed in Kurtz et al. 2013). Our experiment reversed both of these results: The family-resemblance pattern was the easier one\, and explicit learners showed a significantly stronger exclusive-or advantage. The reason for this surprising reversal seems to be that rule-seekers have a much harder time distinguishing relevant from irrelevant features in the exclusive-or condition compared to the family-resemblance condition. \nThese findings are discussed in the context of the larger question of how much linguistic and non-linguistic learning have in common (Moreton\, Pater\, & Pertsova\, in press)\, and in connection with the practical question of how to design and interpret phonological-learning experiments.\n \nElliott Moreton is Professor of Linguistics and Director of Graduate Studies and Admissions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.\n  \n\n  \nLinguistic Colloquium: \nThe Linguistic Department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFall 2015\nOctober 9th: Keith Johnson\, UC Berkeley\nOctober 16th: Heidi Harley\, University of Arizona\nOctober 30th: Ivano Caponigro\, UC San Diego\nNovember 20th: Elliott Moreton\, University of North Carolina \nWinter 2016\nJanuary 15th: Sharon Inkelas\, UC Berkeley\nFebruary 5th: Colin Phillips\, University of Maryland\nFebruary 6th: N. Goodman\, Stanford University and A. Kehler\, UC San Diego\nMarch 5th: Linguistics Conference at Santa Cruz Conference \nSpring 2016\nApril 15th: Sabine Iatridou\, MIT\nApril 29th: Paul Kiparsky\, Stanford University\nMay 6\, 7\, 8: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 9\nMay 20th: Kyle Johnson\, University of Massachusetts\nMay 27th/June 3rd (TBA): Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistic-colloquium-elliott-moreton-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151030T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151030T150000
DTSTAMP:20260430T114901
CREATED:20151015T183701Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20151015T183701Z
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SUMMARY:Linguistic Colloquium: Ivano Caponigro
DESCRIPTION:Linguistic Colloquium: Free-Choice Free Relative Clauses in Italian and Romanian \n\n\n\n  \nEnglish\, Italian\, and Romanian (and many other languages) allow for standard free relative clauses\, i.e.\, non-interrogative wh-clauses with the same distribution and interpretation as definite DPs or PPs (e.g. Elena goes [where Bianca goes]). The same three languages (and many others) also allow for a kind of free relative in which the wh-word has been modified by an affix (e.g.\, Elena goes [wher-everBianca goes]). The semantic behavior of these free relatives\, though\, is not the same across the three languages\, despite their morpho-syntactic identity. \nThe semantic properties of –ever free relatives in English have received significant attention and insightful proposals have been made (cf. Jacobson 1995\, Dayal 1997\, von Fintel 2000\, Heller and Wolter 2011\, Condoravdi 2015\, a.o.). In this talk\, we present the first semantic investigation of the morpho-syntactic equivalent of -everfree relatives in Italian and Romanian\, which we call Free Choice Free Relatives (FC-FRs). We show that semantic properties of FC-FRs differ from -ever free relatives\, while closely resembling headed relative clauses introduced by the free choice determiner any in English. Interestingly\, neither Italian nor Romanian has a free choice item with the same morpho-syntactic shape (i.e.\, non-wh determiner) and the same semantic properties as any in English. We sketch a preliminary compositional analysis of FC-FRs that aims to capture these facts\, based on recent proposal for any and other free choice items by Chierchia (2013) and Dayal (2013). \nWe conclude by touching on the open issue of the difference in meaning between -ever free relatives in English and free choice any and the broader issue of how languages may differ in the way the available free choice items and constructions are mapped onto free choice meanings. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\nThe Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFall 2015\nOctober 9th: Keith Johnson\, UC Berkeley\nOctober 16th: Heidi Harley\, University of Arizona\nOctober 30th: Ivano Caponigro\, UC San Diego\nNovember 20th: Elliott Moreton\, University of North Carolina \nWinter 2016\nJanuary 15th: Sharon Inkelas\, UC Berkeley\nFebruary 5th: Colin Phillips\, University of Maryland\nFebruary 6th: N. Goodman\, Stanford University and A. Kehler\, UC San Diego\nMarch 5th: Linguistics Conference at Santa Cruz Conference \nSpring 2016\nApril 15th: Sabine Iatridou\, MIT\nApril 29th: Paul Kiparsky\, Stanford University\nMay 6\, 7\, 8: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 9\nMay 20th: Kyle Johnson\, University of Massachusetts\nMay 27th/June 3rd (TBA): Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistic-colloquium-ivano-caponigro-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151016T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151016T150000
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SUMMARY:Linguistic Colloquium: Heidi Harley
DESCRIPTION:Heidi Harley\, University of Arizona \n“Suppressing Subject Arguments in Hiaki” \nThe Hiaki passive suffix -wa appears in a very normal-looking personal passive\, and also in an odd impersonal passive—odd in that it is productive with unaccusative as well as unergative intransitive predicates\, provided they have a [+human] argument. It appears that -wa can even make a personal passive out of a raising predicate\, suppressing the embedded subject and promoting the embedded object. \nI will lay out the empirical picture for you\, mainly focussing on investigating whether the apparent impersonal construction might have a null impersonal subject argument\, and arguing that it does not. Then I will illustrate where my thinking is going about how -wa operates\, aiming for a unified treatment of -wa across the personal and impersonal constructions using half of Lechner 2012’s reflexivization operation. Then I will ask for lots and lots of input. \n\n  \nLinguistic Colloquium: \nThe Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFall 2015\nOctober 9th: Keith Johnson\, UC Berkeley\nOctober 16th: Heidi Harley\, University of Arizona\nOctober 30th: Ivano Caponigro\, UC San Diego\nNovember 20th: Elliott Moreton\, University of North Carolina \nWinter 2016\nJanuary 15th: Sharon Inkelas\, UC Berkeley\nFebruary 5th: Colin Phillips\, University of Maryland\nFebruary 6th: N. Goodman\, Stanford University and A. Kehler\, UC San Diego\nMarch 5th: Linguistics Conference at Santa Cruz Conference \nSpring 2016\nApril 15th: Sabine Iatridou\, MIT\nApril 29th: Paul Kiparsky\, Stanford University\nMay 6\, 7\, 8: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 9\nMay 20th: Kyle Johnson\, University of Massachusetts\nMay 27th/June 3rd (TBA): Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistic-colloquium-heidi-harley-3/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151015T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151015T150000
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SUMMARY:Linguistic Colloquium: Sabine Iatridou
DESCRIPTION:Linguistic Colloquium: \nThe Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFall 2015\nOctober 9th: Keith Johnson\, UC Berkeley\nOctober 16th: Heidi Harley\, University of Arizona\nOctober 30th: Ivano Caponigro\, UC San Diego\nNovember 20th: Elliott Moreton\, University of North Carolina \nWinter 2016\nJanuary 15th: Sharon Inkelas\, UC Berkeley\nFebruary 5th: Colin Phillips\, University of Maryland\nFebruary 6th: N. Goodman\, Stanford University and A. Kehler\, UC San Diego\nMarch 5th: Linguistics Conference at Santa Cruz Conference \nSpring 2016\nApril 15th: Sabine Iatridou\, MIT\nApril 29th: Paul Kiparsky\, Stanford University\nMay 6\, 7\, 8: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 9\nMay 20th: Kyle Johnson\, University of Massachusetts\nMay 27th/June 3rd (TBA): Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistic-colloquium-sabine-iatridou-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151009T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151009T163000
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SUMMARY:Keith Johnson: "Adventures in Phonetic Neuroscience"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: In studying linguistic knowledge and the cognitive processing that uses this knowledge\, linguists and psycholinguists have looked for ways to find out what is cognitively “real” that underlies the patterns found in language and linguistic behavior.  We are generally faced with the problem of being on the outside looking in. Each method of acquiring data from people as they speak and listen (elicitation of forms\, recording of corpora\, recording behavioral responses in experiments) contributes to a more sophisticated understanding of linguistic knowledge and processing. \nIn this talk I will present some results from recent investigations in phonetic neuroscience.  The data come from recordings from a dense grid of electrodes placed directly on the surface of the brain in patients who were undergoing surgery for epilepsy.  These neural imaging data have fine resolution in both time and frequency and have low enough noise that a relatively few trials is needed in order to find rich phonetic information.  In the first of the three studies that I will describe\, we found that during speaking the motor cortex shows patterns of activity that group sounds by articulator – labials are similar to other labials\, dorsals are similar to other dorsals\, etc (Bouchard et al.\, 2013\, Nature 495\, 327-332).  In the second study\, we found that during listening the superior temporal gyrus shows patterns of activity that group sounds by manner of articulation – stops are similar to stops\, fricatives to fricatives\, etc. (Mesgarani et al.\, 2014\, Science 1006-1010).  The third study examines a pattern of activity in the motor areas of the cortex that appears during listening.  This pattern has been noted by prior researchers who have speculated that motor activity during speech perception suggests the activity of mirror neurons and perhaps that the motor theory of speech perception is supported.  Our data complicate this interpretation because we are able to decode the phonetic information in the motor area during perception and what we find is surprising.  The pattern of activity is like the pattern found by Mesgarani et al. in STG – sounds are grouped with each other by manner of articulation\, not by articulator.  I’ll discuss the implications of this finding\, and the broader implications of neuroscience for linguistics.\n  \nKeith Johnson is a linguist and a phonetician at the University of California\, Berkeley. He also serves as the Director of the UC Berkeley Phonology Lab.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/keith-johnson-adventures-in-phonetic-neuroscience-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150529T124500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150529T164500
DTSTAMP:20260430T114901
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
DESCRIPTION:The Linguistics Department’s annual Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC) will be held Friday\, May 29th\, from 12:45 – 4:45pm in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge. The Distinguished Alumnus speaker will be Aaron White (2008)\, who is a fifth year PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland. We hope you will attend.\n  \n12:45 p.m. Refreshments \n12:55 p.m. Opening remarks: Adrian Brasoveanu \nSession 1\n1:00 p.m. Jake Vincent: “Chamorro Head-Internal Relative Clauses” \n1:30 p.m. Valery Vanegas: “A Study in Voice Quality Using Accelerometers ” \n2:00 p.m. Break \nSession 2\n2:15 p.m. Matthew Jordan Margulis: “Aspectual Adverbials: The interaction of Aspect and One-By-One” \n2:45 p.m. Chantale Yunt: “Tu comprends tu – Questions of Quebecois” \n3:15 p.m. Break \n3:30 p.m. Distinguished Alumnus Address (introduction: Pranav Anand)\nAaron Steven White: “Learner as Lexical Semanticist”\nUniversity of Maryland \n4:30 p.m. Closing remarks: Grant McGuire
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-undergraduate-research-conference-2-2/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150501T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150501T160000
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CREATED:20141002T190953Z
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Research Colloquia: Grant Goodall
DESCRIPTION:Grant Goodall: “Grammar and working memory: How experimental syntax can help us tell the difference” \nThe use of formal experiments to measure sentence acceptability\, known as “experimental syntax”\, is able to capture many fine-grained grammatical contrasts\, but it also captures effects that have long been thought to be extra-grammatical\, such as those induced by increased cost to working memory. This ambiguity in the source of acceptability is a problem in some ways\, but experimental syntax itself gives us some useful tools to address it. I show this through a series of case studies of constraints on wh-dependencies\, including the role of intervening arguments\, finiteness\, D-linking\, and islands. These cases suggest that grammatical and working memory constraints can be usefully distinguished\, with the former sensitive to intervening hierarchical structure and the latter sensitive to intervening referents. \n  \n\n  \nAbout eight times each year the department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nMore information at: http://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html \n2014 – 2015 Speakers \nFALL 2014\nOctober 17th\nJane Grimshaw\, Rutgers \nDecember 12th\nAdam Albright\, MIT \nWINTER 2015\nJanuary 16th\nClaire Halpert\, University of Minnesota \nJanuary 23rd\nValentine Hacquard\, Maryland \nFebruary 6th\nRachel Walker\, USC \nmid-March: date TBA\nLASC: Linguistics at Santa Cruz Conference \nSPRING 2015\nApril 10th\nDaniel Lassiter\, Stanford \nApril 17th\nKeith Johnson\, UC Berkeley \nMay 1st\nGrant Goodall\, UC San Diego \nMay/June: date TBA\nLURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-research-colloquia-grant-goodall-2/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150417T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150417T160000
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CREATED:20141002T190742Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED Linguistics Research Colloquia: Keith Johnson
DESCRIPTION:About eight times each year the department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world.\nMore information on the talk will be available soon. \n2014 – 2015 Speakers \nFALL 2014\nOctober 17th\nJane Grimshaw\, Rutgers \nDecember 12th\nAdam Albright\, MIT \nWINTER 2015\nJanuary 16th\nClaire Halpert\, University of Minnesota \nJanuary 23rd\nValentine Hacquard\, Maryland \nFebruary 6th\nRachel Walker\, USC \nmid-March: date TBA\nLASC: Linguistics at Santa Cruz Conference \nSPRING 2015\nApril 10th\nDaniel Lassiter\, Stanford \nApril 17th – CANCELLED\nKeith Johnson\, UC Berkeley \nMay 1st\nGrant Goodall\, UC San Diego \nMay/June: date TBA\nLURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-research-colloquia-keith-johnson-2/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150410T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150410T153000
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SUMMARY:Daniel Lassiter: "Nested and informative epistemics in a graphical models framework"
DESCRIPTION:We propose a new semantics and pragmatics for epistemic statements which builds on the systems of Yalcin (2012) and Moss (2015)\, but offers several empirical advantages. The key improvements stem from (a) modeling information states using probabilistic graphical models\, a framework for knowledge representation that is highly influential in psychology\, AI\, and philosophy; and (b) a new method of treating probabilities as ordinary random variables\, making it possible to condition information states on probability statements such as Rain is likely [roughly\, P(rain) > .5]. This feature makes it possible to account for the dynamic effects of epistemic sentences while maintaining a thoroughgoing Bayesianism\, with conditioning as the only update operation. Nested epistemic statements are also given a natural interpretation in terms of higher-order probability\, which is implicitly defined once probabilities are treated as random variables. This approach simplifies Moss’ account and avoids some of its less desirable features\, but the simplification re-introduces certain empirical challenges\, which are discussed in conclusion. \nDaniel Lassiter is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/daniel-lassiter-2/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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