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 […]
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“Usage-based linguistic models and understanding human behavior” The past three decades of research in phonetics and psycholinguistics have led to great advances in our understanding of language, representation, and the […]
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 […]
Pronouns in Competition Long 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 […]
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 […]
“Experimental evidence for context sensitivity in the nominal domain: What children and adults reveal” Abstract: Part of what it means to become a proficient speaker of a language is to […]
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 […]
The concept of person is in many ways tied to speech acts. This is obvious just by exploring the interpretation of pronouns: 1st person pronouns are used to refer to […]
Event Photos: This 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 […]
The Department of Linguistics presents: Brian Dillon “Process and representation in morphosyntactic processing: A psychophysical approach using Signal Detection Theory” Abstract: Intuitive acceptability judgments have long formed the empirical foundation of syntactic […]
Linguistics 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 […]
Linguistics 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 […]
The Linguistics department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. Fall 2016 May/June TBD: LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
The 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 […]
Academic 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 […]
The 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 […]
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 […]
Akira 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 […]
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 […]
UCSC Spanish Studies and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics Present: LA IRONÍA Y ANTICLERICALISMO EN HALMA ÁLVARO ROMERO MARCO (UCSC) Más allá de las clasificaciones y evoluciones que la crítica ha venido realizando, la […]
Sabine Iatridou is Professor of Linguistics, Syntax, Semantics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. See here for more about Professor Iatridou’s work. Stay tuned for more information.
Linguistic 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 […]
