Graduate student JJ Lim and faculty member Michelle Yuan presented at WCCFL 41, the 41st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, held at UC Santa Cruz from May 5-7, 2023. JJ presented a talk titled ‘Nominalisations without DP: Dissociating genitive case assignment from possessor agreement’. Michelle co-presented a talk titled ‘Phase unlocking and the derivation of verb-initiality in San Martín Peras Mixtec’ with Andrew Hedding (University of Washington).

Graduate student Alex Rodriguez and faculty member Grant Goodall are presenting on Clitic Left Dislocation in Spanish: Island sensitivity without gaps at CAMP[5] (5th California Meeting on Psycholinguistics ), which will be held at UCLA on January 28-29, 2023.

Faculty member Ivano Caponigro and Anamaria Fălăuş (CNRS, Nantes) gave a talk at the Amsterdam Colloquium 2022, which was held in Amsterdam on December 19-21, 2022. The title of their presentation was “The semantics of Rudin constructions in Romanian”. The paper is available here.

Three UCSD linguists will be presenting work at the upcoming Workshop on Model Theoretic Representations in Phonology at Stony Brook University (Sept. 22-24):

• Postdoctoral researcher Eric Meinhardt will be giving a tutorial entitled “SMT solvers as a research tool for phonology”
• Graduate student Olivia Griffin will be giving a talk entitled “Computational Complexity and Iconic Functions of Morphophonological Processes” (a collaboration with Jia He Sun, Queen’s University)
• Faculty member Eric Baković will be participating in a panel discussion (with Karthik Durvasula, MSU; Adam Jardine, Rutgers; and Kristine Yu, UMass)

The workshop will take place in a hybrid format, and is free for all to register and attend.

Graduate student Maxine Van Doren will be presenting a poster on voice quality in Spanish-English bilinguals at the upcoming Fall Voice Conference in San Francisco on October 6-8, 2022. She has also been invited to serve on a panel entitled, “When to Say No,” a presentation for early career speech-language pathologists on evaluating career opportunities and maintaining work-life balance.

Graduate students Maho Takahashi and Catherine Arnett will present their poster entitled “Creating a Baseline to Evaluate Correlations Between Language and Environment” at the Machine Learning and the Evolution of Language workshop as part of the Joint Conference on Language Evolution hosted online/in Kanazawa, Japan September 5-8, 2022.

Graduate student Ebru Evcen is giving a short talk entitled “Negation facilities comprehension in English counterfactuals” at the Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP2022) international conference, which will be held in a hybrid format hosted by University of York, United Kingdom on September 7-9, 2022.

Faculty member Emily Clem will present a poster entitled “Attitude reports without complementation: The case of Amahuaca” at the 32nd Semantics and Linguistic Theory conference (SALT32), which will be held in a hybrid format jointly hosted by COLMEX and UNAM in Mexico City on June 8-10, 2022.

Graduate students JJ Lim and Mark Simmons presented posters at the 96th Annual Meeting of the LSA, held at Washington, DC from January 6-9, 2022. JJ presented his poster titled “Dependent accusative case in Khalkha Mongolian: Evidence from converbal adjuncts”, while Mark presented his poster titled “Word-final voicing in Nadëb”.

Graduate student Yuan Chai presented their poster (co-authored with Shihong Ye) “Perception of checked tones in Xiapu Min” at the 181st Acoustical Society of America Meeting in Seattle, Washington. The poster was awarded a shared First Place in the student poster competition. [abstract] [poster]