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Weekly Digest – October 14, 2019
Hello everyone! This week, in the Linguistics department…
Today, at 11-11:50 in the Conference Room, PhonLunch: Reed Blaylock will be presenting “Breaking down the beat: beatboxing for speech scientists.”
Today, at 3:30 in the Conference Room: Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (National University of Singapore) will present “Anti-pied-piping.” Dinner will follow, and all are welcome
Tuesday (10/01), 9:30am in the Conference Room: Psycholinguistics Lab Meeting!Jesse Storbeck will talk about “Discourse-level interpretation of possessed nouns.”
On Wednesday, (10/9) in WPH 202, from 12-12:50, Meaning Lab! Deniz Rudin will present “When faultless disagreement is not so faultless: What widely-held opinions can tell us about subjective adjectives” (joint work with Elsi Kaiser)
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On 10/4, Toby Mintz gave a colloquium at the University of Maryland Linguistics Department entitled “Infants’ capacity for learning non-adjacent dependencies in linguistic and non-linguistic domains.”
On 10/3, Roumyana Pancheva & Maria Luisa Zubizarreta, presented “Future time reference in Paraguayan Guaraní” at the Workshop on Tenselessness 2 in Lisbon.
This last weekend, October 10-14, a number of USC phonologists were present at the Annual Meeting on Phonology 2019 at Stony Brook University. Hayeun Jang presented a poster “Learning hidden gradient features: from muscular activation to featural representation.” Yifan Yang presented a poster “Surface Correspondence in Reduplication.” Charlie O’Hara gave a talk entitled “Learning Prevents MaxEnt from Giving Probability to Harmonically Bounded Candidates.” USC alumni Caitlin Smith (PhD 2018) and Jason Shaw (BA 1999) both gave talks as well.
Also, Stephanie Shih was a keynote speaker at AMP, and gave a talk entitled “The contribution of sound symbolism to phonological theory“.
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