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Weekly digest — 09/28
We are half way through the semester. Can you believe that? We have a couple of interesting things happening this week. So stay tuned! But before any of that, we have very good news!!
Congratulations Hayeun Jang (PhD 2020)
Congratulations to our recent alumna, Hayeun Jang (PhD 2020), who will be starting a position as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Seoul National University this fall!
Stephanie Shih on (conference) tour!
Stephanie Shih gave these colloquiua:
9/23/2020 “How sound symbolism contributes to phonological theory: On Pokemon and baseball”. at National University of Singapore, Department of English Language and Literature.
9/28/2020 “Gradience for lexically-conditioned phonology”. at UIUC, Department of Linguistics.
She is also giving one more this Friday:
10/2/2020 “How sound symbolism contributes to phonological theory: beyond arbitrariness and categoricity.” at The University of Melbourne, ARC Centre of Excellence for Dynamics of Language.
This week over zoom
Psycholing lab meeting is happening on Thursday (10/01) at the usual schedule: 9-10am PDT. Jun Lyu is giving a talk about “Evaluation of Kuno’s speech act empathy and topic empathy constraints on the Chinese reflexive ‘ziji’ “. Email Elsi Kaiser (emkaiser@usc.edu) for the zoom link.
Syntax + is back on zoom this Thursday (10/01) 2-3pm PDT. Elango Kumaran is presenting “Extending the Person–Case Constraint to gender: Agreement, locality, and the syntax of pronouns” by Foley and Toosarvandani to appear in LI. Email Luismi Toquero (toquerop@usc.edu) for the zoom link.
Phonlunch is also back on zoom this Thursday (10/01)4-5pm PDT. Reed Blaylock is presenting his ongoing research on “Beatboxing beats”. Contact Rachel Walker (rwalker@usc.edu) for the zoom link.
Tea time! the Linguistics Department Tea Time, is also on Thursdayfrom 3:30-4:30pm PDT. You want to come and share virtually your drinks and afternoon snacks? You are more than welcome. Email Lisa Jo Keefer (LisaJo@usc.edu) for the link. Here’s a picture of a tea time two weeks ago.
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