Weekly Digest 02/26

Charlie O’Hara presented “Soft typology of Coda place of articulation distributions requires synchronic constraints” at the Workshop on Emergence of Universals on 02/19/18 at OSU in Columbus, Ohio.

We had a Lunar New Year celebration with homemade cakes. Thanks all who participated in baking and eating!

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This week is our OPEN HOUSE! Here are some events to keep on your radar this week:

Monday (2/26) at 2pm in the Conference Room: PhonLunch!Reed Blaylock will present “Phrase-conditioned lengthening in singing” and Mairym Llorens will present “The timing of urge-driven coughing relative to the speech around it: A window into selection”. also on Monday, at 3.30 pm in the Conference Room: Syntax+! Huilin Fang will give a talk titled “Mandarin Aspectual Particle dao and Its Evidential Restrictions”.

Tuesday (2/27) at 7pm: Open House Student dinner at the USC Village! 

Wednesday

(2/28) at 3:30pm in the Conference Room: Psycholing lab meeting Open House edition!

also Wednesday at 7pm: Open House Department dinner in DTLA!

Thursday (3/1)

at 11 am in Location TBA:

Syntax+ Open House edition!

Thomas Borer

will give a talk titled Pronouns in (Swiss) German.

Also this Thursday, at 1pm in the Conference Room:

Psycholing lab meeting!

Jesse Storbeck

will present “Acquisition of probabilistic non-adjacent dependencies in an artificial grammar”.