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SUMMARY:Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC)
DESCRIPTION:The Linguistics Department’s annual Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC) will be held Friday\, June 2nd\, from 12:45 – 3:45pm in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge. The Distinguished Alumna speaker will be Maura O’Leary\, who is a PhD graduate student at UCLA. \nWe hope you will attend. \nLinguistics Undergraduate Research Conference Program – coming soon!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-undergraduate-research-conference-lurc-2/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150116T140000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Research Colloquia: Claire Halpert
DESCRIPTION:About eight times each year the department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world.\n  \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-claire-halpert-2/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141212T160000
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SUMMARY:Adam Albright: "Testing phonological biases with Artificial Grammar learning experiments"
DESCRIPTION:As with most linguistic input\, the data that children receive about phonological patterns is rife with ambiguity. For example\, children hearing voicing alternations in German ([diːp] ~ [diːbə] ‘thief-sg./pl.’\, [maʊs] ~ [mɔɪzɐ] ‘mouse-sg./pl.’) receive no evidence as to whether a single final devoicing process affects all word-final obstruents\, or just the subset of obstruents that German happens to have\, or whether separate processes affect different subsets of segments. Thus\, the data radically underdetermines the analysis (poverty of the stimulus)\, and learners must employ prior biases in order to favor one analysis over another. By observing how speakers extend alternations to novel words\, strings\, and segments\, it is possible to gain insight into these biases—e.g.\, a preference for simpler rules may lead them to generalize devoicing to as broad a class of segments as possible\, while a preference for typologically common rules favor generalization of devoicing to other obstruents\, but not to sonorants.  In this talk\, I present experimental evidence test three types of bias: (1) a bias against alternations\, favoring uniform paradigms (McCarthy 1998); (2) a bias in favor of alternations that target broader classes of segments (Peperkamp et al. 2006); (3) a substantive bias against perceptually salient alternations (Steriade 2001). \nLearners’ biases were probed using Artificial Grammar experiments\, in which adult English speakers were taught singular~plural pairs in a “Martian language”\, and were then asked to produce or rate plural forms. In all of the languages reported here\, obstruent-final stems exhibited voicing or continuancy alternations (dap~dabi\, brup~brufi). A premise of learning biases is that the less data learners have received\, the more their behavior will reflect prior biases. In the first set of experiments\, we manipulated the amount of data that learners received by varying the frequency of alternations across different segments\, in order to test how generalization changes with increasing amounts of data. For example\, if learners are biased to expect non-alternation\, we expect fewer alternating responses for languages with less data about obstruents\, and for rarer segments within a language. If learners expect alternations to apply to broad classes of segments\, we expect processes affecting attested segments to be generalized to unattested or rarer segments. Finally\, if learners are biased to expect certain alternations (e.g.\, voicing) over others (e.g.\, continuancy)\, we expect participants to generalize preferred alternations at higher rates than dispreferred alternations.    In a second set of experiments\, we independently manipulated the evidence that learners received for alternation and also non-alternation\, in order to test whether the preference for non-alternation is purely a prior bias (OO-Faith » Markedness)\, or whether it is learned on the basis of data from non-alternating paradigms.   The results show that increasing the number of training items with alternating paradigms significantly increases the probability of choosing alternations in the test phase\, while increasing the number of items with non-alternating paradigms does not increase the probability of selecting a uniform paradigm.  Thus\, the results are generally support a prior bias for uniform paradigms. \nThese results can be modeled accurately using a maximum entropy (maxent) grammar of weighted constraints. Three properties of maxent models make them well suited to modeling the observed biases. First\, the set of prior/innate constraints is a parameter of the model\, and by including correspondence (faithfulness) constraints in the grammar\, it is possible to model an expectation for non-alternation.  By specifying prior distributions over constraint weights\, we can model an initial bias to obey certain constraints (such as faithfulness) at the expense of others.  Finally\, it is possible to specific different distributions for different constraints\, reflecting the fact that learners demote some constraints more readily than others. This allows us to model the fact that participants favor alternations that target broad classes of segments\, and favor certain alternations over others. \n(Joint work with Youngah Do\, Georgetown University)\n  \nAbout eight times each year the department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world.\n \nUpcoming colloquia: \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-adam-albright-2/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jane Grimshaw: "The use of force in clausal complementation"
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present Jane Grimshaw of Rutgers University speaking on\nThe use of force in clausal complementation. \nAbstract:\nThe SAY-schema verbs (Grimshaw in press) combine with a wide range of clauses in complex complementation structures\, including quoted and non-quoted clauses in post-verbal complement position\, and quoted and non-quoted clauses hosting parentheticals.\nSome SAY-schema verbs encode the Illocutionary Force of the speech acts that they report. Others do not. Some of the complementation structures themselves encode Force\, while others do not.\nThe patterns of verb-clause combination\, or “selection” effects\, result from the interplay between the Force encoded in the verb’s meaning and the Force of the clause. Variation among predicates is highly restricted\, and the evidence needed to learn which complements a verb combines with is accessible in simple discourses.\n  \n\n  \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-jane-grimshaw-2/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:LRC Workshop: On Syntax and Information Structure
DESCRIPTION:We will begin the academic year at Santa Cruz with a workshop centered on issues at the interface between syntax and information structure. The workshop will feature four talks.\n  \n10:00-10:10 AM – Opening Remarks \n10:10-11:10 AM – Bern Samko (Santa Cruz): Verum Focus and Scalar Emphasis in English VP-Preposing \n11:10-11:30 AM – Break \n11:30-12:30 PM – Line Mikkelsen (Berkeley): What goes post verbal in a verb-final language? On the interplay of prosody\, information structure\, and word order in Karuk \n12:30-01:30 PM – Lunch \n01:30-02:30 PM – Vera Gribanova (Stanford): On certain manifestations of polarity focus in Russian \n02:30-03:00 PM – Break \n03:00-04:00 PM – Karen Lahousse (Leuven): Syntax and information structure in verb-subject inversion in French
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lrc-workshop-on-syntax-and-information-structure-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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