Weekly Digest 09/18

USC is once again sending a big group to the LSA annual meeting! Congrats to these folks who will be representing USC in Salt Lake City in January 20018: Monica Do, Huilin Fang, Alfredo García-Pardo, Binh Ngo, Charlie O’Hara, Caitlin Smith, Jesse Storbeck, Pengchen Zhao, Elsi Kaiser and alumns Brian Hsu (University of North Carolina), Mythili Menon (Wichita State University), Saurov Syed (Harvard University) and Patricia Schneider-Zioga (California State University, Fullerton).

This past weekend USC also sent a group to the Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP 2017) at NYU: Charlie O’Hara presented “Soft typology arises from learning bias even with markedness hierarchies”, Wei Wei presented “Lookahead effect in reduplication: Serial vs. parallel OT” and Yifan Yang presented “Quantified exponence constraints and the typology of exponence”. Alumn Brian Hsu (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and Karen Jesney (Carleton University) presented “Weighted scalar constraints capture the typology of loanword adaptation”.

Here are some pictures, courtesy of Yifan:

The Welcome Back Picnic last saturday was a big success: here are some beautiful pictures and a big thank you to our event organizers, Sarah Lee and Miran Oh!

This Monday, 09/18 at 3:30pm in the Conference Room: Vic Ferreira (UCSD) kicks off with the first colloquium of the year, titled “Syntactic Entrainment as a Possible Mechanism for Learning the Meanings of Syntactic Constructions“.

Thursday, 09/21 at 11:30am: PhonLunch will host a Website review session for its members.