Three UCSD phonologists are co-authors on two poster presentations at AMP 2020 this weekend (Sept. 18-20), to be held virtually:

• Eric Baković & Anna Mai, “Comparing positional licensing patterns in HG and OT” (poster session 1, Friday 9/18)
• Nina Hagen Kaldhol & Björn Köhnlein, “North Germanic tonal accent is equipollent and metrical: Evidence from compounding” (poster session 3, Sunday 9/20)

Faculty member Ivano Caponigro is giving a talk on “Headless relative clauses and the syntax-semantics mapping: Evidence from Mesoamerica” at Semantics of Under-represented Languages in the Americas (SULA) 11 on August 4-7 and, together with Dr. Peter Arkadiev, a talk on “Conveying content questions without wh-words: Evidence from Abaza” at Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 25 on September 3-9.

Graduate student Alex Rodríguez and faculty member Grant Goodall are presenting a poster “On the universality of wh-islands: Experimental evidence from Spanish” at the 50th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL50) on Friday July 3rd, 2020.

Our graduate students and faculty are presenting at 33rd Annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, which will take place at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, from March 19th-21st 2020.

Graduate student Duk-Ho Jung and faculty Grant Goodall are presenting a poster on “Two types of wh-dependencies: Same, but different“.

Graduate student Josh Wampler and faculty Eva Wittenberg are presenting a poster on “Conceptual parallels between event and object reference in English: A new paradigm shows that demonstratives refer to more complex events“.

Graduate student Till Poppels and faculty Andy Kehler are presenting a poster on “Anything can be elided if you know how: sluicing, voice mismatch, and tough movement“.

Till is also presenting a poster with faculty Philip Miller (Université de Paris 7 – Diderot)  on “Connectivity evidence for a direct generation approach to pseudogapping“.

Graduate student Neşe Demir will be presenting her poster “Vowel Harmony in Trabzon Turkish” at the 5th Workshop on Turkish and languages in contact with Turkic (TU+5) at the University of Delaware on February 8-9, 2020. 

Our graduate students Catherine Arnett, Till Poppels, and Josh Wampler, and our faculty members Andy Kehler and Eva Wittenberg are presenting at CAMP 3 (California Meeting on Psycholinguistics) at UC Santa Cruz on October 26-27. Our graduate students Sihun Jung and Alex Rodriguez are presenting at SCAM 1 (Southern California Annual Meeting on Syntax) at Pomona College on November 2. Finally, Josh is also presenting at CUSP 12 (California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics) at USC on November 9-10.

Four Mayberry Lab members will be presenting at Theories in Sign Language Research (TISLR) conference will be held at the University of Hamburg on September 26-28, 2019: three graduate students from our department, an alumna of ours, and a faculty member.

• Graduate student Qi Cheng and Rachel Mayberry will be presenting their talk  Word order or world knowledge? Effects of early language deprivation on simple sentence comprehension.
• Graduate student Tory Sampson and Rachel Mayberry will be presenting their talk An emerging SELF: The copula cycle in ASL.
• Graduate student Nina Semushina will be presenting her poster with Rachel Mayberry, Age of acquisition effects on automatic magnitude estimation in ASL number signs and Arabic digits.
• Anne Therese Fredrikson will be presenting her poster with Rachel Mayberry, Implicit causality and thematic roles in ASL: A norming study of 239 implicit causality verbs.

Our 2nd year graduate student Ray Incamu Huaute and faculty member Gabriela Caballero will be delivering a talk on Reduplication and syncope in Cahuilla distributive verbs at the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Annual Meeting (SSILA) in New Orleans, January 2-5, 2020.

Eleven members of our department (five graduate students, one undergraduate student,  and five faculty members) will be presenting five talks and three posters at the next Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting in New Orleans on January 2-5, 2020. In alphabetical order (G: graduate student; U: undergraduate student; F: UC San Diego faculty):

• Emily Clem (F), Nicholas Rolle & Virginia Dawson
  Altruistic inversion and doubling in Tiwa morphology (talk)
• José Armando Fernández Guerrero (G)
  ¡Cómo corre! The Flexibility of Wh-Exclamatives (poster)
  
• Duk-Ho Jung (G) & Grant Goodall (F)
  A wh-dependency that does not obey islands: Remnants and correlates in backward sprouting (poster)
• Till Poppels (G) & Andrew Kehler (F)
  Inferential Ellipsis Resolution: Sluicing, Nominal Antecedents, and the Question Under Discussion (talk)
• Nina Feygl Semushina (G), Azura Fairchild (U) & Rachel Mayberry (F)
  Counting with Fingers Symbolically: Basic Numerals Across Sign Languages (poster)
  
• Joshua Wampler (G)
  Do thus: An investigation into event reference (talk)
• Michelle Yuan (F)
  Deriving ergativity from object shift across Eskimo-Aleut (talk)
• Michelle Yuan (F) & Ksenia Ershova
  Dependent case in syntactically ergative languages: Evidence from Inuit and West Circassian (talk)

• Sharon Rose, Michael Obiri-Yeboah and Sarah Creel. Perception of ATR contrasts by Akan speakers.
• Nina Hagen Kaldhol. Gender and headedness in nominal compounds in Somali.
• Michael Obiri-Yeboah. Acoustic analysis of nasal and ‘nasalized’ vowels in Gua.