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  • Phonology Seminar – Black Lehman

    2122 Campbell Hall

    Phonology and morphology in Avatime, Dschang, and Hän (practice job talk) Zoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/91545617700 If you would like to schedule a presentation, please email Ben Eischens (beischens@ucla.edu).

  • Colloquium Talk – Jonah Katz: Prosodic structure, timing, and fortition-lenition patterns

    Location – Royce Hall 362 Title: Prosodic structure, timing, and fortition-lenition patterns Abstract: This talk reviews cross-linguistic evidence that certain common lenition processes such as spirantization, intervocalic voicing, and flapping take place in a component of grammar that governs the fine-grained temporal dynamics of speech sounds and their interaction with prosodic structure. I argue that […]

  • Winter 2024 American Indian Seminar – TBA

    2122 Campbell Hall

    Meet Tuesdays 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM on Zoom, but you can also hybridize with Professor Munro in person in the 2122A Conference Room each week – just bring your laptop.

  • Colloquium Talk – Sam Zukoff: Morpheme Ordering Happens in the Phonology

    Location – Math and Science 5200 Title: Morpheme Ordering Happens in the Phonology Abstract: The determination of the order of morphemes within words has traditionally been modeled using cyclic concatenation, the one-by-one attachment of affixal morphemes to the root, guided by morphosyntactic constituency via the “Mirror Principle” (Baker 1985). In this talk, I propose an alternative, […]

  • Phonology Seminar – Kie Zuraw & Paolo Roca

    2122 Campbell Hall

    Filipino word prosody: Evidence from textsetting If you would like to schedule a presentation, please email Ben Eischens (beischens@ucla.edu).

  • Colloquium Talk – Connor Mayer: Are scalar models of sonority enough? Insights from L2 acquisition of English complex onsets

    Languages vary in their phonotactics: how sounds are allowed to be sequenced into words. For example, although English, Spanish, and Farsi all have the sounds /p l s/, English allows the complex onsets /sp/ and /pl/, as in ‘speech’ and ‘play’, Spanish only /pl/, as in ‘playa’, while Farsi allows no complex onsets at all. […]

  • Phonology Seminar – Journal Club

    2122 Campbell Hall

    (May be moved to Week 6) If you would like to schedule a presentation, please email Ben Eischens (beischens@ucla.edu).

  • Colloquium Talk – Shengyun Gu: When the phonological mind meets another modality: Two-handed articulation in Shanghai Sign Language ” (See below for abstract)

    Location – Royce Hall 362 The department tour slot is still open. You can sign up here (same link). When the phonological mind meets another modality: Two-handed articulation in Shanghai Sign Language Abstract: To what extent are the phonological systems of languages, spoken or signed, structured similarly if we assume that they both draw on […]