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Spring 2025
Friday, April 25 @ 1:20pm
Room: HUM 1 – 202
Matt Wagers, UC Santa Cruz
Title: Setting healthy (mnemonic) boundaries
Abstract
Friday, May 23 @ 1:20pm
Room: HUM 1 – 202
Elena Anagnostopoulou, University of Crete and IMS-FORTH
Title: Rethinking clitics: a view from Greek
Abstract
Winter 2025
Friday, January 31 @ 1:20pm
Room: HUM 2 – 259
Karlos Arregi, University of Chicago
Title: Singular they and the syntax of townhouses
Abstract
Friday, March 7 @ 1:20pm
Room: HUM 2 – 259
Jessica Rett, UCLA
Title: Ambidirectionality and apparently expletive negation
Abstract
Fall 2024
Friday, November 8 @ 1:20pm
Room: HUM 1 – 210
Jim McCloskey, UCSC
Title: Clauses without verbs – The Irish landscape and beyond
Abstract
Friday, November 22 @ 1:20pm
Room: HUM 1 – 202
Draga Zec, Cornell
Title: Phonology within morphology in BCS: The case of OV augmentation
Abstract
Previous Colloquia
2023 – 2024
Fall 2023
Friday, October 13
Room: HUM 1 – 210
Ryan Bennett, UCSC
Title: Vowel deletion as grammatically-controlled gestural overlap in Uspanteko
Abstract
Friday, October 27 @ 1:20pm
Room: HUM 1 – 210
Yael Sharvit, UC Los Angeles
Title: Assessing two theories of clausal complementation
Abstract
Winter 2024
Thursday, February 1 @ 11:40am
Room: HUM 1 – 210
Cynthia Yoonjeong Lee, University of Michigan
Title and Abstract
Tuesday, February 6 @ 11:40am
Room: HUM 1 – 210
Drew McLaughlin, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language
Title and Abstract
Thursday, February 8 @ 11:40am
Room: HUM 1 – 210
Andrea Beltrama, University of Pennsylvania
Title and Abstract
Tuesday, February 13 @ 11:40am
Room: HUM 1 – 210
Anthony Yacovone, Tufts University/Massachusetts General Hospital
Title and Abstract
Tuesday, February 20 @ 11:40am
Room: HUM 1 – 210
Caroline Andrews, University of Zurich
Title and Abstract
Thursday, February 22 @ 11:40am
Room: HUM 1 – 210
Jed Pizarro-Guevara, University of Massachusetts
Title and Abstract
Tuesday, February 27 @ 11:40am
Room: HUM 1 – 210
Dustin Chacón, University of Georgia
Title and Abstract
Spring 2024
Friday, April 5 @1:20pm — CANCELLED
Room: HUM 1 – 210
Karlos Arregi, University of Chicago
Title and Abstract
Friday, May 24 @ 1:20pm — CANCELLED
Room: HUM 1 – 210
Draga Zec, Cornell University
Title and Abstract
2022 – 2023
Fall 2022
Friday, November 18 @ 11:20am via Zoom
Kate Stone, University of Potsdam – Germany
Title: Resolving illusions of plausibility: ERP and computational modelling findings
POSTPONED: Friday, December 2 @ 1:20pm
Room: HUM 2 – 359
Argyro Katsika, UC Santa Barbara
Winter 2023
Winter 2023
Friday, January 13 @ 1:20pm
Room: HUM 1 – 202
Uri Mor, UC Berkeley and Ivy Sichel (UC Santa Cruz)
Title: The Double Standard in Modern Hebrew: The Rise of Modern Vernacular Hebrew in the 1940s and 1950s
POSTPONED: Friday, January 20 @ 1:20 pm
Room: HUM 1 – 202
Fernanda Ferreira, UC Davis
Friday, February 24 @ 1:20pm
Room: HUM 2 -259
Junko Ito and Armin Mester, UC Santa Cruz
Title: High tones in Kagoshima Japanese
Friday, March 3 @ 1:20pm
Room: HUM 1 – 202
Rajesh Bhatt, UMass
Title: Honor and Plurality in Hindi-Urdu
Friday, March 17 @ 1:20pm
Room: HUM 1 – 202
Marc Garellek, UC San Diego
Title: Non-modal voicing has either little, or everything, to do with voicing: Evidence from synchrony and diachrony
Spring 2023
Friday, April 14 @ 1:20pm
Room: HUM 1 – 202
Bryan Donaldson, UC Santa Cruz
Title: Clitic position and clause structure in Old Occitan and early Old French
Friday, April 21 @ 1:20pm
Room: HUM 1 – 202
Christian Ruvalcaba, UC Santa Cruz
Title: Part-whole datives and integral predicates in English
Friday, May 12 @ 1:20pm
Room: HUM 1 – 202
Argyro Katsika, UC Santa Barbara
Title: Exploring the trigger of prosodic boundaries: The role of word prosody and phrase-level prominence in marking phrase edges
POSTPONED: Friday, May 26 @ 1:20pm
Julia Swan, San Jose State University
2021 – 2022
Fall 2021
Friday, October 22 @ 1:20pm
Room: HUM 1 – 210
Mark Amengual, UC Santa Cruz
Title: Phonetic interactions in multilingual speech
Friday, October 29 @ 1:20pm
Room: HUM 1 – 210
Josefina Bittar Prieto, UC Santa Cruz
Title: Differential Object Marking and Middle Marking in Guaraní
Friday, November 19 @ 12:00pm via Zoom
Bridget Copley, CNRS Paris
Title: The dark side of causation: inefficacious and shadowy influences
Winter 2022
Friday, March 18 @ 1:20pm via Zoom
Mara Breen, Mt Holyoke College
Title: What is implicit prosody and what is it for?
Spring 2022
Friday, April 1 @ 1:20pm via Zoom
Maria Gouskova, NYU
Title: On the Analytical Necessity of Morpheme Structure Constraints
Friday, April 29 @ 1:20pm
Room: HUM 1 – 202
Nicole Holliday, Univ of Pennsylvania
Title: Sociophonetic Variation and Human Interaction with Digital Voice Assistants
Friday, May 6 @ 1:20pm, via Zoom
Katy Carlson, Morehead State University
Title: Accents, Boundaries, Focus, and Where They Matter Most
Friday, May 27 @ 1:00pm, Hybrid Modality
Room: Stevenson Fireside Lounge
LURC 2022
Guest Speaker: Eric Bakovic (UCSD)
2020 – 2021
Fall 2020
Friday, November 13 @ 9:00am
Idan Landau, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev – Israel
Title: A Selectional Criterion for Adjunct Control
Friday, November 20 @ 1:20pm
Donka Farkas, UC Santa Cruz
Title: Canonical and Non-canonical Speech Acts
Friday, December 4 @ 1:20pm
Adrian Staub, University of Massachusetts
Title: Word frequency and predictability effects in reading: Some outstanding puzzles
Friday, December 11 @ 1:20pm
Rebecca Tollan, University of Delaware
Title: Competing argument privileges in Niuean
Winter 2021
Tuesday, January 26 @ 9:00am
Nicholas Rolle, Leibniz-ZAS
Title: Grammatical Tone Allomorphy and Interface Phonology
Wednesday, February 3 @ 1:30pm
Eric Bakovic, UC San Diego
Title: Assembly required: insights from phonological interaction
Wednesday, February 10 @ 1:30pm
Rachel Walker, USC
Title: Segments Deconstructed
Wednesday, February 17 @ 1:30pm
John Alderete, Simon Fraser University
Title: The phonology of speech errors
Wednesday, February 24 @1:30pm
Mary Paster, Pomona College
Title: Counting and learning bias in phonology
Saturday, March 6
Linguistics at Santa Cruz – LASC 2021
Time: 1:30 – 5:40pm
Spring 2021
Friday, April 2 @ 1:20pm
Ora Matushansky, CNRS (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, France)
Title: The case of French places
Thursday, April 9 @ 1:20pm
Kathryn Davidson, Harvard
Title: Dynamic signing space, pronouns, and continuous disambiguation
Friday, April 16 and Saturday, April 17
Spring Research Symposium 2021
Time: TBA
Friday, April 23 @ 9:00am
Michelle Sheehan, Anglia Ruskin University – UK
Title: A new take on fake partial control
Friday, May 21 @ 1:20pm
Roumyana Pancheva, USC
Title: Temporal reference without tense
Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference – LURC 2021
Date: Friday, May 28
Time: 1:20 – 5:00pm
2019 – 2020
Fall 2019
Friday, November 1 – CANCELLED
Roumyana Pancheva, USC
Title: Temporal interpretation without tense
Friday, November 15 @ 1:20pm , Room: HUM 1-210
Jorge Hankamer, UC Santa Cruz
Title: CP Complements to D
Friday, December 6 @ 1:20pm, Room: HUM 1-210
Dave Kush, NTNU-Norway
Title: Learning about Island Variation in L1 (and L2): Insights from Norwegian
Winter 2020
Friday, January 10 – CANCELLED
Stephanie Shih, USC
Title: On the nature of lexical categories: considerations from sound symbolism
Thursday, January 23 @ 1:30pm, Room: HUM 1 – 202
Kenyon Branan, National University of Singapore
Title: Locality and anti-locality: two case studies
Thursday, January 30 @ 1:30pm, Room: HUM 1 – 202
Bronwyn Bjorkman (Queens University, Ontario Canada)
Title: Realizing Syntax
Thursday, February 6 @ 1:30pm, Room: HUM 1 – 202
Nikos Angelopoulos (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Title: Complementizers as Probes
Thursday, February 13 @ 1:30pm, Room: HUM 1 – 210
Isabelle Charnavel (Harvard University)
Title: Disentangling the binding knot: Locality, logophoricity and subjecthood in Picture Noun Anaphors
Saturday, February 29, 2020
Linguistics at Santa Cruz – LASC 2020
Room: Stevenson Fireside Lounge
Time: 2:00pm – 5:00pm
Spring 2020
Friday, April 3 – CANCELLED
Kathryn Davidson, Harvard
Title: TBA
Thursday, April 10 – ZOOM
Research Seminar Symposium
Time: 11:45am – 4:00pm
Friday, April 17 – CANCELLED
Kevin Ryan, Harvard
Title: TBA
Friday, May 8 @ 1:20pm, Room: HUM 2-259
Jesse Harris, UCLA
Title: TBA
Friday, June 5, 2020 – CANCELLED
Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference – LURC 2020
Room: Stevenson Fireside Lounge
Time: 1:30 – 3:00pm
2018 – 2019
Fall 2018
Friday, October 12 @ 1:20pm
Ur Shlonsky, University of Geneve
Title: Subjects of copular constructions
Friday, November 9 @ 1:20pm
Gabriella Caballero, UC San Diego
Title: The interaction between lexical and grammatical tone in Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara)
Friday, December 7 @ 1:20pm
Gorka Elordieta, University of Basque Country, Spain
Title: Unaccented words, headedness, and prosodic phrasing in Northern Bizkaian Basque
Winter 2019
Monday, January 14, 2019
Room/Time: HUM 2 – 259 @ 2:30pm
Naomi Francis, MIT
Title: Even in presupposition denials
Thursday, January 17, 2019
Room/Time: HUM 2 – 259 @ 3:00pm
Jess Law, Rutgers University
Title: Constraints on distributivity
Thursday, January 24, 2019
Room/Time: HUM 2 – 259 @ 3:00pm
Nadine Theiler, University of Amsterdam
Title: A unified semantics for additive particles
Monday, February 4, 2019
Room/Time: HUM 2 -259 @ 2:30pm
Emily Clem, UC Berkeley
Title: Cyclicity in Agree: Maximal projections as probes
Thursday, February 7, 2019
Room/Time: HUM 2 -259 @ 2:30pm
Michelle Yuan, University of Chicago
Title: Ergativity as object shift in Inuit: New insights from microvariation
Monday, February 11, 2019
Room/Time: HUM 2 -259 @ 2:30pm
Andrew Murphy, Leipzig University
Title: What can tone tell us about movement? Insights from Asante Twi
Thursday, February 14, 2019
Room/Time: HUM 2 -259 @ 2:30pm
Marta Wierzba, Universität Potsdam
Title: Revisiting prosodic reconstruction
Saturday, March 9, 2019
Linguistics at Santa Cruz
Room: Stevenson Fireside Lounge
Time: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Spring 2019
Friday, April 19 @ 1:20pm
Charles Yang, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Learnability vs. Grammar
Friday, April 26 @ 1:20pm
Laura McPherson, Dartmouth College
Title: Tonal adaptation across musical modality: A comparison of Sambla vocal music and speech surrogates
Friday, May 10 @ 1:20pm
Sandy Chung, UC Santa Cruz
Title: The ingredients of control in Chamarro
Friday, May 31 @ 1:00 pm
Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference – LURC 2019
Stevenson Fireside Lounge
2017 – 2018
Fall 2017
Friday, October 6 @ 4pm
Ashwini Deo, Ohio State University
Title: Alternative circumstances of evaluation and the ser/estar distinction in Spanish
Friday, October 20 @ 4pm
Judith Aissen, UCSC
Title: Right-edge topics in Tsotsil (Mayan)
Friday, November 17 @ 4pm
Brian Dillon, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Title: Process and representation in morphosyntactic processing: A psychophysical approach using Signal Detection Theory
Winter 2018
Friday, January 19 @ 1:20pm
Martina Wiltschko, University of British Columbia
Title: Nominal speech act structure. A personal view.
Friday, February 16 @ 1:20pm
Adam Ussishkin, University of Arizona
Title: Roots, or consonants? On the early role of morphology in lexical access
Friday, March 2 @ 1:30pm
Kristen Syrett, Rutgers University
Title: Experimental evidence for context sensitivity in the nominal domain: What children and adults reveal
Saturday, March 10 from 9:00am – 4:00pm
Linguistics at Santa Cruz – LASC 2018
Room: Stevenson Fireside Lounge
Spring 2018
Friday, May 4 @ 1:45pm
Liz Coppock, Boston University
Title: Most vs. the most in languages where the more means most
Friday, May 18 @ 1:30pm
Meghan Sumner, Stanford University
Title: Usage-based linguistic models and understanding human behavior
Friday, June 8, 2018 @ 1:00pm
Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference – LURC 2018
Stevenson Fireside Lounge
2016 – 2017
FALL 2016
September 30th
Itamar Francez, University of Chicago
Title: Semantically impossible adjectives
October 7th
Akira Omaki, University of Washington
Title: Developing incrementality: Grammar and parsing of wh-dependencies in children
November 18th
Kie Zuraw, UCLA
Title: The Breadth of the Candidate Set
WINTER 2017
Thursday, January 26th
Shota Momma, UC San Diego
Title: Aligning parsing and generation
Tuesday, January 31st
Hannah Sande, UC Berkeley
Title: Modeling the morphology/phonology interface: Evidence from process morphology in Guébie
Thursday, February 2nd
Dustin Chacon, University of Minnesota
Title: Filling in Gaps in Comparative Syntax
Thursday, February 9th
Juliet Stanton, MIT
Title: Constraints on the Distribution of Nasal-Stop Sequences: An Argument for Contrast
Thursday, February 16th
Elliott Moreton, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Title: Emergent positional privilege in blend formation
Tuesday, February 21st
Sam Zukoff, MIT
Title: Stress Restricts Reduplication
Thursday, February 23rd
Ryan Bennett, Yale
Title: Idiosyncrasy and contextual variability in the prosody of functional morphemes
Thursday, March 2nd
Amanda Rysling, University of Massachusetts – Amherst
Title: Preferential early attribution in segmental perception
Tuesday, March 5th
Jennifer Smith, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Title: Unpacking the asymmetries in category-specific phonology
LASC (Linguistics at Santa Cruz) 2017
Saturday, March 18th
Time: 8:30am – 5:00pm
Room: HUM 1 – 210
SPRING 2017
April 14th
Junko Ito & Armin Mester, UC Santa Cruz
Title: Pitch Accent and Tonal Alignment
May 26th
Susan Lin, UC Berkeley
Title: Gradience from variation in articulatory magnitude and timing
Friday, June 2nd
LURC (Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference) 2017
Time: 12:45 – 4:45pm
Room: Stevenson Fireside Lounge
2015 – 2016
FALL 2015
October 9th
Keith Johnson, UC Berkeley
“Adventures in Phonetic Neuroscience”
October 16th in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge
Heidi Harley, University of Arizona
“Suppressing subject arguments in Hiaki”
October 30th
Ivano Caponigro, UC San Diego
“Free-Choice Free Relative Clauses in Italian and Romanian”
November 20th
Elliott Moreton, University of North Carolina
“Implicit and explicit learning of phonotactic patterns”
WINTER 2016
January 15th
Sharon Inkelas, UC Berkeley
“The A-map model: Articulatory reliability in child-specific phonology”
Thursday, January 28th
Claire Halpert, University of Minnesota
“Surmountable barriers”
Room/Time: HUM 2 – 259 from 2:00-3:30pm
Monday, February 1st
Brooke Larson, University of Iowa
“The What and Whens of Syntactic Relations”
Room/Time: HUM 1 – 210 from 2:00-3:30pm
February 5th
Colin Phillips, University of Maryland
“Speaking, understanding, and the architecture of language”
Saturday, February 6th
SPLAP: Semantics, Pragmatics and LAnguage Philosophy Conference
Time: 9:30am – 5:15pm
Room: HUM 1 – room 202
Speakers: N. Goodman (Stanford) and A. Kehler (UCSD)
Thursday, February 11th
Ivy Sichel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“Anatomy of a counterexample – Extraction from relative clauses”
Room/Time: HUM 1 – 210 from 2:00-3:30pm
Tuesday, February 16th (note date change)
Itamar Kastner, NYU
“On the syntactic reflexes of lexical semantics: The case of reflexives”
Room/Time: HUM 1 – 202 from 2:30-4:00pm (note time change)
Monday, February 22nd
Stefan Keine, University of Mass Amherst
“Selective opacity”
Room/Time: HUM 2 – 259 from 2:00-3:30pm
Saturday, March 5th
LASC: Linguistics at Santa Cruz Conference
Time: 9:30am – 5:30pm
Room: Stevenson Fireside Lounge
Speaker: Ryan Bennett (Yale)
SPRING 2016
April 15th
Sabine Iatridou, MIT
“Fake things here and there; evidence form now and then”
April 29th
Paul Kiparsky, Stanford
“Agent Nouns: The Morphosyntax of Mixed Categories”
May 6, 7, 8
SULA 9: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas 9
May 20th
Kyle Johnson, University of Massachusetts
“Building a Trace”
Wednesday, June 1
LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
Time: 1:00 – 5:00pm
Room: Stevenson Fireside Lounge
Speaker: Shayne Sloggett (University of Massachusetts)
2014 – 2015
FALL 2014
October 17th
Jane Grimshaw, Rutgers University
“The use of force in clausal complementation”
December 12th
Adam Albright, MIT
“Testing phonological biases with Artificial Grammar learning experiments”
WINTER 2015
January 16th
Claire Halpert, University of Minnesota
“Raising: the stakes”
January 23rd
Valentine Hacquard, Maryland
“Bootstrapping into Attitudes”
February 6th
Rachel Walker, USC
“Partially Overlapping Harmonies: Implications for Agreement by Correspondence”
Saturday, March 14th
LASC: Linguistics at Santa Cruz Conference
Time: 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Room: Stevenson Fireside Lounge
Vera Gribanova, Stanford
Title: “Head movement, ellipsis, and Russian polarity focus”
SPRING 2015
April 10th
Daniel Lassiter, Stanford
“Nested and informative epistemics in a graphical models framework”
April 17th
Cancelled
May 1st
Grant Goodall, UC San Diego
“Grammar and working memory: How experimental syntax can help us tell the difference“
May 29th
LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
Room: Stevenson Fireside Lounge
Time: 12:45 – 4:45 pm
2013 – 2014
October 4th
Jim McCloskey, UC Santa Cruz
“Preverbs, Phases, and Objecthood: An Irish Perspective on Some Old Problems”
November 8th
Anna Szabolcsi, New York University
“What do quantifier particles do?”
November 14th
Seth Yalcin, UC Berkeley
“Epistemic Modality De Re”
January 17th
Lisa Pearl, UC Irvine
“More learnable than thou? Testing knowledge representations with realistic acquisition data”
January 24th
Annie Gagliardi, Harvard University
“Grammar-parser tension in language acquisition: Evidence from Q’anjob’al relative clauses”
January 31st
Kathryn Pruitt, Arizona State University
“Culminativity in Harmonic Serialism”
March 15th
LASC: Linguistics at Santa Cruz Conference
Room: Stevenson Fireside Lounge
Guest Speaker: Ruth Kramer, Georgetown University
Topic: “A New Approach to the Morphosyntax of Gender”
April 11th
Sun-Ah Jun, UC Los Angeles
“Prominence and phrasing in ambiguity resolution: Evidence from priming and individual differences”
April 18th
Julie Legate, University of Pennsylvania
“Noncanonical Passives”
May 2nd
Michela Ippolito, University of Toronto
“Negative Conditionals”
May 9th
Jean Fox Tree, UC Santa Cruz
“Spontaneous Communication”
May 30th
LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
2012 – 2013
October 5th
Jakub Dotlačil, Visiting Research Professor, UC Santa Cruz
“Distributivity: Its Sources and Incremental Interpretation“
October 12th
Roger Levy, UC San Diego
“Probabilistic knowledge and locality in syntactic comprehension”
November 2nd
Ben Munson, University of Minnesota
“Perceived gender and fricative identification”
November 16th
Andries Coetzee, University of Michigan
“A lexical route to voicing co-occurrence restrictions: the case of Afrikaans”
November 30th
Chris Kennedy, University of Chicago
“Incremental Theme: “Measuring out” is measuring change”
January 24th
Michael Diercks, Pomona College
“The Great Escape: Raising out of finite clauses in Bantu languages”
January 31st
Martin Walkow, UCLA
“(Conjunct) Agreement between Syntax and PF”
February 7th
Maziar Toosarvandani, MIT
“Gapping is VP-ellipsis”
February 21st
Joseph Sabbagh, UT Arlington
“Specificity and Objecthood in Tagalog”
April 5th
Jesse Harris, Pomona College
“Generating Alternatives on Demand”
April 12th
Karlos Arregi, University of Chicago
“Markedness and Rule Generalization in Basque Clitic Morphology”
May 17th
Grant McGuire, UC Santa Cruz
“Separating voice prototypicality and stereotypicality”
UCSC Institute for Humanities Research Faculty Fellow Talk
2011 – 2012
Fall 2011
Pranav Anand, Assistant Professor, Linguistics Department, UC Santa Cruz
“Assessing the pragmatics of experiments: The case of scalar implicature”
Hagit Borer, Professor of Linguistics, University of Southern California
“In the Event of a Nominal”
Larry Horn, Professor of Linguistics, Yale University
“On the Contrary: Pragmatic Strengthening and Disjunctive Syllogism”
Karen Jesney, Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, USC
“The Interaction of Markedness Factors in Child Consonant Cluster Acquisition”
Winter 2012
Masaya Yoshida, Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University
“The real-time processing of Forward and Backward Sluicing”
Matthew Gordon, Professor of Linguistics, UC Santa Barbara
“Lexical and post-lexical accentology, morphology, and weight in Muskogean: Case studies from Koasati and Chickasaw”
Spring 2012
Gabriela Caballero, Assistant Professor, Linguistics, UC San Diego
“Stress and tone in Choguita Raramuri (Tarahumara) word prosody”
Lisa Davidson, Associate Professor of Linguistics, New York University
“An investigation of hiatus (non-)resolution in American English”
Hotze Rullmann, Associate Professor, Linguistics, University of British Columbia
“Epistemic Modality in the Scope of Past Tense”