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Weekly Digest, 2/26/24

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goldenstateservicesj
Feb 26, 2024
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Last week we were having some issues with the mailing list, so we are repeating a few news items from the newsletter that did not get sent out. Thanks for your patience, everyone!

If you have news to share, please submit your news for future issues of SCling Wrap, cause we need your help keeping up with what’s ✨fresh✨ at USC Linguistics.

Shri Narayanan named USC vice president for presidential initiatives

USC Today reports:

Shrikanth “Shri” Narayanan, a USC University Professor known for his pioneering research in human-centered sensing, computing and information processing, has been appointed vice president for presidential initiatives, USC President Carol Folt announced Thursday. Narayanan will be the first to hold this position.

Nina Raffio, USC Today

Congratulations, Shri! You can read the full article about this exciting announcement here.

Inked ✍️

  • Travis Major. 2024. “Re-analyzing ‘say’ complementation: Implications for case theory and beyond.” Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. Link to paper.

Look Who’s Talking 🗣

  • Canaan Breiss and Alexis Rock gave a talk on “Learning Phonotactics from Linguistic Informants” at the IFLC seminar at CNRS on Feb. 14.

  • Zuzanna Fuchs gave a public lecture at Nerd Night, an event hosted at Foundr Haus on Feb. 18. The lecture was titled “The Science of Bilingualism: The myths… and the truths that have stood the test of time.”

Save the date: USiL Small Talks on March 4

Save the date for the Undergraduate Students in Linguistics (USiL) next Small Talks event:

Learning in Toddlers and Large Language Models: a Cross-Domain Linguistic Comparison Monday, March 4 Taper Hall room 102 5:30 p.m. til 7:30 p.m.

This panel is an expansion of Angie Wang’s article, “Is My Toddler a Stochastic Parrot?” USiL recommends that participants read her piece in the New Yorker prior to attending the event. The discussion will feature Angie Wang, Elsi Kaiser, and Khalil Iskarous. Further details about the event can be found on USiL’s website here.

Upcoming Events

Colloquiua

Please mark your calendars! The following colloquiua are scheduled for later this semester:

  • March 25: Anne-Michelle Tessier (University of British Columbia)

  • April 15: Michelle Yuan (UCLA)

Department Events

USiL Events

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

 
 
 

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