Weekly Digest, 2/24/2025

Welcome to week seven, everyone! 🌞 Read on for this week’s announcements, and a special furry introduction!

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In the community 👥

Registration is now open for the LSA Linguistic Institute in Eugene, OR. We have over 80 courses by faculty from around the world, spread over two 2.5-week terms (July 7-22, and July 24-August 8th). Plus 8 exciting co-located conferences and workshops on topics ranging from Computation in Linguistics, to Usage-based Phonology, to Community-based Sociolinguistics, to Himalayan and Northwest American Indigenous Languages, as well as a variety of hands-on tutorials, advising opportunities, and reading groups.

USC Linguistics will be represented by faculty member Canaan Breiss, who will be teaching an advanced-level phonology course called “Phonology and the Lexicon” – check out the course description here. Canaan will also be leading a two-day conference titled “Abstract and Item-Specific Knowledge Across Domains and Frameworks”, co-organized with Gaja Jarosz (UMass Amherst), Emily Morgan (UC Davis), and Volya Kapatsinski (UOregon).

Check out the website for the Institute here: https://center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/

Pets of USC Linguistics 🐈🐈‍⬛

This week the featured pets of USC Linguistics are Max (black and brown stripes) and Bayes (grey and white patches), faculty member Canaan Breiss’ two cats! They’re both boys, about a year old, and best friends – they enjoy napping together, play-fighting together, and playing with dice, spring-toys, and boxes!

Upcoming Events

Department Events

• Monday, February 24 at 1pm @ PhonLunch: Jack Goldberg, “An analysis of Bashkir loanword vowel harmony”

• Tuesday, February 25 at 9:30am @ Psycholing Lab: Linh Pham, “Transfer of island insensitivity: How L1 Vietnamese L2 English learners process filler-gap dependencies in English”

• Wednesday, February 26 at 2pm @ S-Side Story: Zhixian Huang, “Revisiting Non-Canonical Objects in Mandarin Chinese”

• Wednesday, February 28 at 10am @ MeaningLab: Stephen Finlay (USC Philosophy)

USiL Events

Please check out https://www.usilusc.org/ for the latest on Undergraduate Students in Linguistics (USiL) events this semester.