Weekly Digest, 4/21/2025

Welcome to the second to last week of classes, everyone! We at SCLing Wrap hope you had a lovely Easter if you celebrate, and regardless of whether you celebrate, we hope you took the time to enjoy the outdoors and treat yourself this weekend!🍫🥚🥕🐰

Remember, 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.

Inked ✍️

• Zuzanna Fuchs. 2025. “Independent processing of lexical features on portmanteau morphemes: evidence from Polish.” Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. Link to paper.

Look Who’s Talking 🗣

• Faculty member Andrew Simpson was an invited colloquium speaker at the University of Arizona earlier this month on April 8th, where he gave a talk titled “Complex causes of word order variation”, which was joint work with graduate student Zhixian Huang.

• Four undergraduate students, Ashley Adji, Jacob Denina, Cindy Gu and Andy Zhang, presented at the USC 2025 Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work, held in the Ronald Tutor Campus Center Ballroom on Tuesday April 15, 2025. Their project was called “Agency and spatial location: Insights from Language.” Their faculty mentor is Elsi Kaiser. Check out the photo below!

First USC, then the world! 🚀

News has reached us that 2024 Linguistics alumna (and Renaissance Scholar) Urban Seiberg has been accepted into an AuD (Doctor of Audiology) program at Rush University in Chicago. Congratulations Urban on this great achievement, we look forward to tracking your continued success!

Upcoming Events

Department Events

• Monday, April 21 at 1pm @ PhonLunch: No meeting

• Tuesday, April 23 at 9:30am @ Psycholing Lab: Panel discussion lead by Katie Kennedy, “Using interdisciplinary coursework to enhance your research”

• Wednesday, April 23 at 2pm @ S-Side Story: Nelli Marutyan, Title TBA

• Friday, April 25 at 10am @ MeaningLab: Kelsey Christensen, Title TBA

USiL Events

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