Weekly Digest, 2/3/2025

Welcome to week four of the semester, everyone, and (finally!) to longer days of sunlight!

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Look Who’s Talking 🗣

• Graduate student Linh Pham and faculty member Andrew Simpson gave a talk titled “The syntax of null possessors with kinship terms and body parts nouns in Vietnamese” at the 5th International Symposium of Vietnamese Linguistics.

In the community 👥

Faculty member Sandy Disner gave a guest lecture with Gene Franz (Rice U.) on the history of speech synthesis in the Gridspace lecture series on the fundamentals of constructing sound with machines for MIT’s Independent Activities Period.

Other good news 🎉

To celebrate Lunar New Year, USC Linguistics grad students enjoyed some dim sum!

Upcoming Events

Department Events

• Monday, February 3 at 1pm @ PhonLunch: No meeting

• Tuesday, February 4 at 9:30am @ Psycholing Lab: Journal club

• Wednesday, February 5 at 2pm @ S-Side Story: Andy Murphy, “Rethinking Morphological Reversals”

• Friday, February 7 at 10am @ MeaningLab: No meeting

USiL Events

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