Weekly Digest, 4/7/23

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Fellowship for Hao

Second-year PhD student Hailin Hao has received a short-term fellowship from the research cluster SFB 1287 “Limits of Variability in Language: Cognitive, Computational, and Grammatical Aspects” at the University of Potsdam to visit Prof. Shravan Vasishth’s lab. Congratulations, Hailin, and enjoy your visit!

Tenure for Menon (USC PhD 2016)

Congratulations to Prof. Mythili Menon (USC PhD 2016; http://www.mythilimenon.com/), who has been awarded tenure at Wichita State University! Mythili’s USC PhD thesis was on “Building Adjectival Meaning without Adjectives” (more details on her website). She recently received an NSF grant on “Enabling Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Studying Social Engineering Attacks Targeting Vulnerable Refugee Populations” (more info here).

Look Who’s Talking 🗣

• Helen Lu (Psychology) and Toby Mintz gave a presentation titled “Twelve-month-olds Generalize Nonadjacent Dependencies From Artificial Speech Presented at a Natural Speech Rate” at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development held in Salt Lake City, Utah on March 23-25.

• Zuzanna Fuchs gave a guest lecture at UC Berkeley on April 3 in the course “The American Languages”. The guest lecture was titled “Heritage Languages in the USA.”

• ZuzannaFuchs also gave an invited talk at Rutgers University on April 5 as part of their Experimental Methods seminar. The talk was titled “Eyetracking evidence for independent processing of gender and animacy agreement features in Polish”.

Upcoming Events

Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work

The USC Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work will take place this coming Wednesday, April 12, 11am-2pm in the Tutor Campus Center. It’s a great chance to see all kinds of research and creative work being done by undergraduate students at USC. There will be at least two posters by linguistics undergraduates:

• Meona Khetrapal and Sabrina Soto: “How we talk about people: Gender inferences based on names”

• Claire Benet Post: “What’s in a name? An experimental investigation of last names and gender”

April Colloquia

We have two colloquia coming up this month, make sure you save the dates! Details to come.

• Monday, April 17 at 3:30pm: Judith Degen (Stanford)

• Monday, April 24 at 3:30pm: Vera Gribanova (Stanford)

Department events

• Monday, April 10 at 1pm @ PhonLunch: Yijing Lu, title TBD

• Tuesday, April 11 at 9:30am @ Psycholing Lab: Mete Oğuz on “Processing Turkish case markers: Implications for Case Containment Hypothesis”

• Wednesday, April 12 at 5pm @ MeaningLab: Kyle Blumberg (Philosophy) on “Settling Fiction”

• Friday, April 14 at 1:30pm @ S-Side Story: Steven Foley on “Case, agreement, and subjecthood in Georgian”