Congratulations to Sergio!

PhD candidate Sergio Robles-Puente has just accepted a tenure-track position at the World Languages, Literatures and Linguistics Department at the University of West Virginia, starting next semester. Congratulations for a well-deserved position and best of luck!!

WCCFL 32 at USC

The 32nd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 32) is fast approaching! USC will be hosting the conference, taking place on March 7-9, 2014. The program is available now, and more information will follow soon. Questions can be directed to wccfl32@gmail.com. We look forward to seeing you at the conference!

USC at LSA 2014

The 88th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America was held this year from January 2-5, 2014, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. There were several USC representatives at the conference this year.

Snowy Minneapolis (photo credit: David Li)

Graduate students Reed Blaylock, Arunima Choudhury, Huilin Fang, David Li and Sergio Robles-Puente attended the conference, as well as former postdoc fellow Sam Tilsen, graduate alumni Michael Shepherd and Michal Temkin Martinez and undergraduate alumna Alexa Cohen. Titles of posters and talks given follow:

L1 phonotactics vs. L2 assimilation: Insights from eye-tracking
David Li & Elsi Kaiser

Role of prosody in expressing focus types: Comparing f0 in Hindi and Bangla
Arunima Choudhury & Elsi Kaiser

Aspectuality and scalarity of the Taiwanese Mandarin focus particle you
Huilin Fang

Prosodic transfer and attrition in Spanish/English bilinguals
Sergio Robles-Puente

The mora as a unit of speech planning
Sam Tilsen (Cornell University)

Taking Lingiustics Beyond Linguistics Programs and Departments (Symposium)
Michal Temkin Martinez (Boise State University)

Readers’ perceptions of dialect-speaking characters in literature: A matched-guise study
Michael Shepherd (California State University, Fresno) & Alexa Cohen

Congratulations to all who gave talks, presented posters, and attended on behalf of USC!

Congratulations to Evangeline Alva

Congratulations to Evangeline Alva, a Linguistics undergraduate whose research was recently featured on the main page of the USC website and on the USC News Page (and previously on this very blog!). It's always nice to see Linguistics in the spotlight. Great job, Evi!

USC presence at Phonology 2013

This year, Phonology 2013 was held at UMass Amherst, in Amherst, Massachusetts from November 8-10, 2013. The conference was an opportunity to present unpublished work in all areas of phonology, with invited speakers, oral and poster presentations, and a tutorials workshop. 

Two USC graduate students, Peter Guekguezian and Brian Hsu, presented posters at the conference:

Locality Requirements in Reduplication: SyllableProximity-BR.
Peter Guekguezian

Unifying Phonotactics and Derived Environment Blocking through Prosodic Constraint Indexation
Brian Hsu

Peter presenting his poster at Phonology 2013

Brian presenting his poster at Phonology 2013

Congratulations to both of our USC presenters! Both Brian and Peter made special note of how enjoyable the conference was!