BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Linguistics Department - ECPv6.17.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Linguistics Department REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20270314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20271107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260428T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260428T155000 DTSTAMP:20260408T161643Z CREATED:20260408T161643Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260408T161643Z UID:10000341-1777384800-1777391400@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Phonology Seminar- Baichen Du DESCRIPTION:“Overflow of the phonological planning window: Mandarin Tone 3 Sandhi reanalyzed” URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/baichen-du-overflow-of-the-phonological-planning-window-mandarin-tone-3-sandhi-reanalyzed/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260427T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260427T180000 DTSTAMP:20260402T131721Z CREATED:20260402T131721Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T131721Z UID:10000333-1777305600-1777312800@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Phonetic Seminar - Maddy Liotta DESCRIPTION:“Phonetics of Palatalization in O’dam” URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonetic-seminar-maddy-liotta/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260424T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260424T160000 DTSTAMP:20260331T143049Z CREATED:20260331T143049Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260331T143049Z UID:10000321-1777042800-1777046400@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:FIELD (Fieldwork and Indigenous/Endangered Language Documentation) Meeting DESCRIPTION:A weekly meeting group to discuss practical and theoretical issues in fieldwork and language documentation. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/field-fieldwork-and-indigenous-endangered-language-documentation-meeting-2/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260424T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260424T140000 DTSTAMP:20250917T095748Z CREATED:20250917T095748Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250917T095748Z UID:10000246-1777028400-1777039200@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk – Dustin Chacón DESCRIPTION:Rethinking the fundamentals of sentence comprehension \nA nearly self-evident fact about human language is that knowing a language consists of two systems: a list of terms stored in long-term memory (the lexicon)\, and the procedural system for composing these terms into complex expressions (the grammar). This distinction is further reified in theories of language comprehension and typical psycholinguistic methodologies (Krauska & Lau 2023). By contrast\, research in cognitive neuroscience of language paints a far murkier picture\, with no obvious distinctions between brain areas that support sentence and word meanings (e.g.\, Shain et al. 2024) or syntactic vs. morphosyntactic structure (e.g.\, Stockall & Gwilliams 2023). How do we reconcile this? \nHere\, I present on two experiments that seek to bridge this gap. In the first experiment\, I show that magnetoencephalography (MEG) responses to morphologically complex words in Bengali (Bangla) show sensitivity to both morphosyntactic and lexical-semantic properties in right anterior temporal lobe ~200ms. This suggests that retrieval of basic conceptual representations overlap with morphosyntactic structure building. In the second study\, we use the ‘rapid parallel visual presentation’ (RPVP) paradigm\, in which participants read short phrases in a single glance. This effectively prevents serial\, word-by-word reading typically deployed in other experimental paradigms. We show that electroencephalography (EEG) activity elicited during the processing of noun-adjective phrases in Spanish shows near-simultaneous effects of lexical surprisal\, neighborhood density effects\, and syntactic processing ~200-250ms in posterior sensors. We suggest that the brain simultaneously retrieves lexical items while processing morphosyntactic and syntactic structure in a holistic fashion\, with no serial or temporal ordering between ‘lexical’ and ‘(morpho)syntactic’/structure-building processes. I then conclude by suggesting some preliminary boundary conditions for what a parsing architecture might look like that does not presuppose ‘word-by-word’ sentence processing nor a discrete boundary between the grammar and lexicon. \nLocation: Kaplan Hall A65 URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-dustin-chacon/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260422T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260422T135000 DTSTAMP:20260413T103252Z CREATED:20260413T103252Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260413T103252Z UID:10000349-1776859200-1776865800@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax/Semantics Seminar DESCRIPTION:EMPTY PAGE — this page had no importable content. The original content may have been rendered by a PHP widget or plugin whose data is not included in the export file. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-semantics-seminar-11/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260421T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260421T155000 DTSTAMP:20260408T161542Z CREATED:20260408T161542Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260408T161542Z UID:10000340-1776780000-1776786600@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Phonology Seminar- Journal Club DESCRIPTION:EMPTY PAGE — this page had no importable content. The original content may have been rendered by a PHP widget or plugin whose data is not included in the export file. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/journal-club-4/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260420T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260420T180000 DTSTAMP:20260402T131624Z CREATED:20260402T131624Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T131624Z UID:10000332-1776700800-1776708000@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Phonetics Seminar DESCRIPTION:Review of ASA abstracts URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonetics-seminar-6/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260415T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260415T135000 DTSTAMP:20260413T103217Z CREATED:20260413T103217Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260413T103217Z UID:10000348-1776254400-1776261000@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax/Semantics Seminar – Jessica Rett DESCRIPTION:The semantics of high negation \nThe goal of this paper is to provide a compositional account of high negation – negation that occurs in the left periphery and makes an expressive contribution – across a wide variety of constructions. I propose that negation\, like other natural language expressions\, is anaphoric: it can either associate with content inside of or prior to the present utterance\, and it can only do the latter when it’s high. This ‘exophoric’ interpretation of high negation involves anaphora to some prior claim or expectation\, instead of the descriptive content of the utterance it occurs in. I argue that this account solves some empirical puzzles for high negation questions introduced in Frana and Rawlins (2019) while avoiding positing that all languages lexicalize two distinct negation meanings in a homophonous morpheme. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-semantics-seminar-jessica-rett-3/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260414T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260414T180000 DTSTAMP:20260414T113648Z CREATED:20260414T113648Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260414T113648Z UID:10000356-1776182400-1776189600@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Psych/CompLing Seminar - Evan Hochstein DESCRIPTION:EMPTY PAGE — this page had no importable content. The original content may have been rendered by a PHP widget or plugin whose data is not included in the export file. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/psych-compling-seminar-evan-hochstein/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260413T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260413T180000 DTSTAMP:20260402T131629Z CREATED:20260402T131629Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T131629Z UID:10000331-1776096000-1776103200@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Phonetics Seminar DESCRIPTION:EMPTY PAGE — this page had no importable content. The original content may have been rendered by a PHP widget or plugin whose data is not included in the export file. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonetics-seminar-7/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260411T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260411T155000 DTSTAMP:20260408T164722Z CREATED:20260408T164722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260408T164722Z UID:10000347-1775916000-1775922600@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:SCAMP at USC DESCRIPTION:EMPTY PAGE — this page had no importable content. The original content may have been rendered by a PHP widget or plugin whose data is not included in the export file. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/scamp-at-usc/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260410T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260410T160000 DTSTAMP:20260331T143059Z CREATED:20260331T143059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260331T143059Z UID:10000320-1775833200-1775836800@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:FIELD (Fieldwork and Indigenous/Endangered Language Documentation) Meeting DESCRIPTION:A weekly meeting group to discuss practical and theoretical issues in fieldwork and language documentation. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/field-fieldwork-and-indigenous-endangered-language-documentation-meeting-3/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260410T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260410T140000 DTSTAMP:20250917T095627Z CREATED:20250917T095627Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250917T095627Z UID:10000245-1775818800-1775829600@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk – Kathryn Franich DESCRIPTION:Cross-Linguistic Variation in Co-Speech Gesture Timing: Evidence for Grammatical Control \nCo-speech gestures have traditionally been treated as an ‘extralinguistic’ phenomenon\, not implicated in theories of grammar (e.g. Hagoort & van Berkum 2007). In this talk\, I discuss cross-linguistic findings on the coordination of speech and co-speech gesture that reveal clear evidence of language-specific timing patterns\, a hallmark of grammatical control (Pierrehumbert 1980; Keating 1984). Looking at data from Medʉmba\, Babanki\, and two varieties of English\,  I demonstrate that a) gestures reveal language-specific patterns of prosodic prominence\, and b) co-speech gestures\, like oral articulatory gestures\, show language-specific patterns in the gestural landmarks selected for coordination (c.f. Browman & Goldstein 1986; Gafos 2002; Shaw et al. 2021). I then propose a framework for integrating co-speech gestures into the analysis of prosodic grammar. \nLocation: Kaplan Hall A65 URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-kathryn-franich/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260408T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260408T140000 DTSTAMP:20260407T113829Z CREATED:20260407T113829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260407T113829Z UID:10000339-1775649600-1775656800@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax/Semantics Seminar - GLOW practice talks DESCRIPTION:EMPTY PAGE — this page had no importable content. The original content may have been rendered by a PHP widget or plugin whose data is not included in the export file. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-semantics-seminar-glow-practice-talks/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260407T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260407T160000 DTSTAMP:20260407T113743Z CREATED:20260407T113743Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260407T113743Z UID:10000338-1775570400-1775577600@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Phonology Seminar - Muhammad Rehan; Aidan Ackerman DESCRIPTION:EMPTY PAGE — this page had no importable content. The original content may have been rendered by a PHP widget or plugin whose data is not included in the export file. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonology-seminar-muhammad-rehan-aidan-ackerman/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260406T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260406T180000 DTSTAMP:20260402T131410Z CREATED:20260402T131410Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T131410Z UID:10000330-1775491200-1775498400@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Phonetics Seminar - John McGahay\, Cor Zanda & Sakshi Singh DESCRIPTION:“A Theory of Vowel System Typology Based on Confusion Minimization” – John McGahay \n“Prosody by Sentence Type in Haryanvi” – Cor Zanda & Sakshi Singh URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonetics-seminar-john-mcgahay-2/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260403T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260403T160000 DTSTAMP:20260331T142954Z CREATED:20260331T142954Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260331T142954Z UID:10000319-1775228400-1775232000@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:FIELD (Fieldwork and Indigenous/Endangered Language Documentation) Meeting DESCRIPTION:A weekly meeting group to discuss practical and theoretical issues in fieldwork and language documentation. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/field-fieldwork-and-indigenous-endangered-language-documentation-meeting/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260401T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260401T140000 DTSTAMP:20260401T113806Z CREATED:20260401T113806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260401T113806Z UID:10000326-1775044800-1775052000@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax/Semantics Seminar DESCRIPTION:EMPTY PAGE — this page had no importable content. The original content may have been rendered by a PHP widget or plugin whose data is not included in the export file. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-semantics-seminar-10/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260331T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260331T180000 DTSTAMP:20260401T114027Z CREATED:20260401T114027Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260401T114027Z UID:10000328-1774972800-1774980000@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Psych/CompLing Seminar DESCRIPTION:EMPTY PAGE — this page had no importable content. The original content may have been rendered by a PHP widget or plugin whose data is not included in the export file. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/psych-compling-seminar/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260331T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260331T160000 DTSTAMP:20260401T113901Z CREATED:20260401T113901Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260401T113901Z UID:10000327-1774965600-1774972800@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Phonology Seminar DESCRIPTION:EMPTY PAGE — this page had no importable content. The original content may have been rendered by a PHP widget or plugin whose data is not included in the export file. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonology-seminar-14/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260330T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260330T180000 DTSTAMP:20260401T114129Z CREATED:20260401T114129Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260401T114129Z UID:10000329-1774886400-1774893600@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Phonetics Seminar DESCRIPTION:EMPTY PAGE — this page had no importable content. The original content may have been rendered by a PHP widget or plugin whose data is not included in the export file. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonetics-seminar-5/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260313T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260313T140000 DTSTAMP:20260212T151604Z CREATED:20260212T151604Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260212T151604Z UID:10000306-1773399600-1773410400@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Kalen Chang DESCRIPTION:Two notions of strong equivalence\nIn this talk\, I propose two notions of equivalence between grammars and grammar formalisms that are useful for comparing not only which strings can be generated\, but also how they are generated. If a sentence is ambiguous in a language\, a suitable grammar should derive that sentence in multiple ways. In the first notion\, two grammars are equivalent if they generate each string in the same number of ways. The second involves considering all possible homomorphic functions over derivation trees\, including the usual semantic interpretations. Taking this perspective\, two grammars are equivalent if they generate the same sets of string-interpretation pairs. I will demonstrate how these two notions apply to Context-Free Grammars and Pushdown Automata\, as well as to Head Grammars and Linear Indexed Grammars\, and discuss how studying translations between equivalent grammar formalisms sheds light on the recursive mechanisms underlying each formalism. \nLocation: Fowler Museum A139 URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-kalen-chang/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260312T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260312T160000 DTSTAMP:20260305T063135Z CREATED:20260305T063135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260305T063135Z UID:10000318-1773324000-1773331200@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Psycho/CompLing Seminar - Shalinee Maitra DESCRIPTION:Can children use tense and aspect morphology to learn novel verbs? \nHow do children learn how their language marks tense and aspect? How do they disentangle what marks tense and what marks aspect? I consider these questions and present some preliminary results from a study investigating whether English-acquiring children can use tense and aspect morphology to learn novel verbs\, as well as a planned follow-up study. Showing when children can use tense and aspect morphology to learn novel verbs bears on the question of whether this morphology can aid them in vocabulary learning\, while also constraining the relevant time period for investigating how tense and aspect morphology are acquired. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/psycho-compling-seminar-shalinee-maitra-2/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260311T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260311T133000 DTSTAMP:20260305T062912Z CREATED:20260305T062912Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260305T062912Z UID:10000316-1773230400-1773235800@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax/Semantics Seminar - Ed Keenan DESCRIPTION:In languages with just first order quantifiers (e.g. English LF a la Heim & Kratzer 1998) whether a sentence is valid (logically true\, true in all models) depends on the valence of the lexical predicates in L. If all are one place\, P1s\, then validity is algorithmic (decidable); this fails once a single lexical two place predicate\, P2\, is added (Boolos and Jeffrey 1989). We illustrate this with a simple non-mathematical example from English. E.g. lexical P2s like like plus first order quantifiers enable us to construct sentences that are false in all finite models but true in some infinite ones. Mere P1s cannot force their models to be infinite (B&L 1989). Building on this we show that object quantifiers are logically more expressive than subject quantifiers (contra Heim & Kratzer). So while all subject quantifiers may occur on objects\, many object quantifiers do not occur grammatically on subjects. Further\, the logical richness of P2s also supports the existence of non-compositional quantifiers determined by pairs that map the P2 denotation directly to 0 or 1. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-semantics-seminar-ed-keenan-3/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260310T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260310T160000 DTSTAMP:20260114T162856Z CREATED:20260114T162856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260114T162856Z UID:10000295-1773151200-1773158400@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Phonology Seminar- Bruce Hayes DESCRIPTION:EMPTY PAGE — this page had no importable content. The original content may have been rendered by a PHP widget or plugin whose data is not included in the export file. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonology-seminar-bruce-hayes/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260309T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260309T180000 DTSTAMP:20260205T160218Z CREATED:20260205T160218Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260205T160218Z UID:10000302-1773072000-1773079200@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Phonetics Seminar - Jahnavi Narkar DESCRIPTION:The acoustic space of stop laryngeal contrasts URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonetics-seminar-jahnavi-narkar/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260304T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260304T140000 DTSTAMP:20260205T160100Z CREATED:20260205T160100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260205T160100Z UID:10000301-1772627400-1772632800@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Phonetics Seminar - Open House Presentations by P-Lab Members DESCRIPTION:New time for Phonetics Seminar this week! URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonetics-seminar-open-house-presentations-by-p-lab-members/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260304T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260304T133000 DTSTAMP:20260225T133911Z CREATED:20260225T133911Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260225T133911Z UID:10000312-1772627400-1772631000@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Syntax/Semantics Seminar - Will Zimmermann\, Hannah Lippard DESCRIPTION:Epistemic modality as disjunction in Cinyungwe\nHannah Lippard \nI will present a portion of my ongoing dissertation research on polysemous disjunction in the Mozambican Bantu language Cinyungwe. In this talk\, I will focus on the lexical items peno and pinango\, which have both disjunctive and epistemic modal meanings. As coordinators and as modals\, their syntactic distribution partially but not entirely overlaps. I will present empirical patterns regarding the interpretations of peno and pinango\, including bisyndetic coordination\, noun class agreement\, subject-object asymmetry\, and speaker knowledge. I will suggest that neither word has Boolean disjunction as its core semantic meaning. Instead\, both appear to be instances of Cinyungwe co-opting discourse-adverbial epistemic modals to express disjunction. \n  \nWhat is bro doing?\nWill Zimmermann \nBro is a decidedly Gen-Z/Internet piece of vernacular\, and its users accept sentences like (1-3). In this talk\, I aim to bring us closer to situating bro within a typology of pronominals and related objects. \n\nWhat is bro doing?\nI feel bad for bro\nBro hasn’t read {his/her/their/*bro’s} Kripke\n\nLike a third singular pronoun\, bro picks out a referent in the discourse (1-2). It can occur anywhere in the string\, as demonstrated by (1-3). Additionally\, it can be coreferential with a pronoun of any gender but cannot itself be bound\, both shown in (3). Taken together with the fact that it is clearly lexical yet lacks an overt determiner\, this makes it seem like some sort of proper name. And yet it carries a strong (negative\, humorous\, sarcastic) evaluative component\, making it seem like an epithet (e.g.\, the guy\, the idiot; see Patel-Grosz 2014\, 2015) . So what is it? I do not propose a final analysis of this never-before-studied item\, but I do try to get us closer. \nThis talk is structured as follows. After introducing bro and its general properties\, I discuss personal pronominal inventories cross-linguistically\, demonstrating that they do not have to be closed and non-lexical like in standard English (Panagiotidis 2002; Ritter & Wiltschko 2019; Song\, Nguyen\, and Biberauer 2024\, a.o.). Next\, I discuss epithets and find that\, although bro possesses some epithet-like properties (has a negative evaluative component\, cannot bear stress)\, it fails other tests. I then discuss whether bro can be treated as a proper noun. Finally\, I introduce a number of bro-like items from the same register\, namely blud\, sis\, and unc\, which all function essentially the same. Intriguingly\, bro and these other items\, which I refer to collectively as bronouns\, are all originally either shortened kinship terms or words that refer to a certain kind of friend. I draw a connection to the superficially similar items Mom and Dad\, and I propose a diachronic account of bronouns. I conclude by relating their evolution to that of kinship-based pronouns in (South) East Asian languages like Vietnamese. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-semantics-seminar-will-zimmermann-hannah-lippard/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260303T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260303T180000 DTSTAMP:20260303T093153Z CREATED:20260303T093153Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260303T093153Z UID:10000313-1772553600-1772560800@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Psycho/CompLing Seminar - Jack Duff DESCRIPTION:Pragmatic effects can be hard to pin down in reading time measures. I’ll talk about a garden-path-like effect resulting from eager causal inferencing in English discourses\, which has been found once in eye-tracking (Hoek et al. 2021)\, but which I’ve failed to find in self-paced reading or Maze latencies (Duff 2023). Drawing on Clifton (2013)\, I’ll show new results using an alternative method\, using math questions between SPR passages and comprehension questions to require long-term storage of discourse meaning\, and thereby encourage rich first-pass representations. This turns out to do the trick! I’m hoping for thoughts and feedback on some ways of understanding why *this* method in particular should be helpful for encouraging incremental pragmatic enrichment in reading experiments. URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/psycho-compling-seminar-jack-duff-2/ LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260303T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260303T160000 DTSTAMP:20260114T162806Z CREATED:20260114T162806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260114T162806Z UID:10000294-1772546400-1772553600@temp.linguistics.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Phonology Seminar- Isa Cabrera DESCRIPTION:EMPTY PAGE — this page had no importable content. 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