Weekly Digest – September 16, 2019

Hello everyone! On the USC Linguistics blog this week, the Fall 2019 cohort has been kind enough to supply introductions to the department. Click over to here to read their bios!

This week, in the Linguistics department…

Phonlunch is cancelled today.

Tuesday (09/17) 9:30am in the Conference Room: Psycholinguistics Lab Meeting!Jina Song will talk about “Effects of coherence relations on the interpretation of Korean null pronouns”.

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The Southern California Annual Meeting on Syntax (SCAMS) is taking place at Pomona College on Saturday, November 2, 2019. The application deadline has been extended until September 20. 

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USC Linguists were well represented at Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing, 2019 (AMLaP) in Moscow from September 6-8. Silvia Kim presented a talk “English-Korean code-switching: Looking beyond balanced bilinguals and beyond Indo-European” (joint work with Elsi Kaiser). Cindy Chiang, Yijing Lu, and Elsi Kaiser presented a poster “Effects of discourse status, representational complexity, and locality on object-extracted relative clause processing”. Jina Song and Elsi Kaiser presented a poster “Effects of coherence relations on the interpretation of Korean null pronouns”.