Weekly Digest 03/26

Congratulations to Cynthia Yoonjeong Lee, who last week successfully defended her dissertation “The Prosodic Substrate of Consonant and Tone Dynamics”!!!

Stephanie Shih gave an invited talk titled “Lexically-conditioned phonology in probabilistic grammar” at the Colloquium at University of Arizona Linguistics Department. There were desserts and desert! The after-colloquium party included a dessert potluck; the second picture is of the saguaro cactus forest in the desert outside of Tucson:

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This week, in the USC Linguistics department…

Monday (03/26) at 2:30pm in the Conference Room:

PhonLunch

! Professional Development Discussion: 

Dani Byrd 

will talk about

thinking about authorship and a look at USC Academic Senate’s “Guidelines for Assigning Authorship and for Attributing Contributions to Research Products and Creative Works”, and 

Yoonjeong (Cynthia) L

ee

 will talk about data citation and attributions in linguistics.

also on Monday, at 3:30pm in the Conference Room:

Syntax+

!

Bhamati Dash

is presenting a talk titled “

Verb Stacking’

in Fragment Answers: Evidence from Hindi.

Thursday (03/29) at 1pm in the Conference Room:

Psycholing lab meeting

!

Jesse Storbeck

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

also on Thursday, at 4:30pm in GFS108: 

ShLAC (Language & Computation) lab meeting

!