Byron Ahn will be heading to Boston University in the Fall to take up a visiting Assistant Professorship in Boston University’s Department of Linguistics.
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Monthly Archives: April 2014
Scenes from World Voice Day @ UCLA
Pat Keating, together with cross-campus colleagues organized UCLA’s first every participation in World Voice Day. There were three stations that showcased interactive exhibits about voice science, staffed in part by several of our own linguistics undergrads. Events included the debut performance by the Department’s very own Kartvelian Chorus (Georgian folk singing group) led by Vrinda Chidambaram. The festivities were also reported on the front page of the Bruin: http://dailybruin.com/2014/04/16/ucla-brings-world-voice-day-to-campus/
Thanks very much to our volunteers for helping out throughout the day:
Franny Brogan (graduate student, Spanish & Portuguese)
Loura Derro
Ana Paula Engelbert (graduate student, Head & Neck Surgery)
Emily Huo
Hyosun Kang
David Martinez-Gonzalez
Yeong Woo Park
Braunny Ramirez
Marlena Underhill (to whom special thanks for designing our banner)
World Voice Day Booth on Bruin Walk
Pat Keating at the Bruin Walk station
UCLA’s very own Kartvelian (Georgian folk) chorus performing on Bruin Walk
Ana Engelbert (Head/Neck surgery) at the station at the UCLA Medical Plaza
Hyosun Kang, David Martinez-Gonzalez at the UCLA Medical Plaza station
Hyosun Kang, David Martinez-Gonzalez at the UCLA Medical Plaza station
Yeong Woo Park, staffing the larynx model and artificial larynx, at the Court of Sciences station, together with some students from Electrical Engineering
World Voice Day @ UCLA on Wednesday, 16 April
Pat Keating writes:
Hi everyone,
I and some colleagues on campus have organized UCLA’s first-ever participation in World Voice Day, April 16 – Wednesday of this week. We will have interactive exhibits about voice science at 3 locations, staffed in part by several of our own linguistics undergrads.
You can check out what’s happening where/when on our web listing: click here or in the article about the events that will appear in the Bruin on Wednesday.
But if you can come to Bruin Plaza at 1, you can see the debut performance of Datvebis Gundi (Georgian for “Chorus of Bears”, UCLA’s Kartvelian chorus), which is practically a Ling Dept activity. There will also be a Bruin story about them on Wednesday.
Blankenship reports on UCLA Language Materials Project
At the April conference of the Southwest Association for Language Learning Technology, Barbara Blankenship (Ph.D. 1997) presented a talk on digital materials for language learning. Blankenship coordinates the UCLA Language Materials Project, a website with resources for teachers of less commonly taught languages. The site offers a bibliography of over 9000 materials for teaching 150 languages, language profiles with maps and demographics, and a portal for K-12 teachers that provides free lesson plans for an entire year’s curriculum. Funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s International Research and Studies program, the site receives 10,000 visitors a month at http://www.lmp.ucla.edu.
Universal Grammar: 15 Essays republished by Routledge
Ed Keenan’s 1987 volume, “Universal Grammar: 15 Essays”, has been reprinted, this time by Routledge (much to Ed’s pleasant surprise!). Click here to have a look!
Jun gives colloquium at UCSC
Sun-Ah Jun will be giving a colloquium at UCSC this Friday, April 11. Her talk is entitled: “Prominence and Phrasing in Ambiguity Resolution: Evidence from Priming and Individual Differences”
Jesse Harris to join faculty in Fall 2014
Jesse Harris, currently an Assistant Prof. at Pomona College, will be joining the department as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2014.
Welcome Jesse!
UCLA Linguists at CLS 50
UCLA linguists (both present and former) will be giving talks at this year’s meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS 50).
Byron Ahn: “Reflexes of Reflexivity: Locality and the Interfaces”
Thomas Graf (Ph.D., 2013; now at Stony Brook): “Feature Geometry and the Person Case Constraint: An Algebraic Link”
Additionally, Bruce Hayes will be delivering an invited talk entitled: “Comparative Phonotactics”
McPherson at Berkeley
Laura McPherson will be giving a couple of talks at Berkeley on April 10. She will be giving a guest lecture in the Berkeley graduate morphology class on her work on variable vowel harmony in Tommo So.
She will also be giving a talk at the Berkeley music-language working group: “Tone-tune association in Tommo So folk songs”.
Charnavel and Mateu at GLOW 37
Isabelle Charnavel (Ph.D. 2012) and Victoria Mateu recently gave a talk at GLOW 37 in Brussels. The talk was entitled: The Clitic Binding Restriction Revisited: Evidence for Antilogophoricity.
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