USC :: GSIL

The next GSIL meeting is scheduled for tomorrow at 11 am in the conference room. We hope to see everyone there.

Editorial Board:

Michael Shepherd

Review Board:

Monica Cabrera, Jim Magnuson, Bob McMurray, Emily Nava

Table of Contents:

• Fuyun Wu [pdf]
  Subjacency versus Grammatical Extraction in Chinese Focused Cleft Wh-Questions: L1 Understanding and L2 Performance
• Michael Shepherd [pdf]
  On the Relationship between Phoneme Activation and Lexically Mediated Compensation for Coarticulation

Just a reminder that the first GSIL meeting of the semester is Thursday, October 18th at 11:00am in the 2nd/3rd year offices (GFS 340). We hope to see everyone there.

All updates that have come through my Inbox have been completed. There are still a few missing persons, but I’ll remind everyone of that at the GSIL meeting this week and then come hunt down those who haven’t yet emailed me after screening is over.

Also, I’d like to thank Hector Velasquez for sending some nice pictures of this year’s open house dinner. They’ve been added to the GSIL Gallery here.

edh

Hey everyone! The GSIL BBQ is coming up and this is the social event of the year. It is on Sunday, Sept 16th from 4-7pm at Hagit Borer’s house. Also, since the BBQ is also a potluck, we’re hoping everyone can chip in and bring one dish. To prevent 20 cakes from showing up, there will be a signup sheet on Joyce’s door where you can say what you would be bringing. Please signup by Tuesday.

If you are planning on coming to the GSIL BBQ , please RSVP by emailing Nancy (nancy.louie@usc.edu).

Welcome back to all of the returning students and a warm welcome to all of the new students.

As a reminder please email me if you need any changes made to your interests / website / name, etc. For new students, I’ll be wandering about asking people about these things over the next few weeks.

If you want to get ahead just send me an email me with your full name (as you wish it to appear), your preferred email address, a list of your linguistic interests and your website (if you have one).

I hope everyone has a good semester, and for those of you who are screening (such as myself) good luck.

Just a reminder that the student workshop is scheduled for Tuesday, May 1st (which is next week for the temporally challenged). The festivities start at 10:15 am and go to 5:45 pm. We are also lucky to have Rebecca Campos and Omar Beas as our guest speakers who will be presenting their dissertation work.

Read on for a complete schedule along with abstracts for the various talks and presentations.

• 10:15 - 10:30 :: Breakfast / Welcome
• 10:30 - 11:00 :: Session I - Phonology :: Chair: Roberto Mayoral Hernandez
• Michal Temkin Martinez :: “Exceptions Encoded at the Segmental Level”
• 11:00 - 11:15 :: Coffee Break
• 11:15 - 11:55 :: PhD Talk: Rebeka Campos
• “Vowel harmony in Romance varieties: representing minimal contrast”
• 12:00 - 1:15 :: Lunch / Undergraduate Poster Presentations
• Posters by: Celeste DeFreitas & Monica Benett
• 1:15 - 2:45 :: Session II - Syntax and Semantics :: Chair: Roberto Mayoral Hernandez
• Janet Anderson :: “A Pragmatic Account of Disjunctive Counterfactuals”
• Phillip Potamites :: “Argument, Range, or Feature”
• Wendy Cheng :: “Pseudopartitives, DP Internal Structure, and Predicate Inversion”
• 2:45 - 3:00 :: Coffee Break
• 3:00 - 3:30 :: PhD Talk: Omar Beas
• TBA
• 3:30 - 3:45 :: Ice Cream Social / Coffee Break
• 3:45 - 5:15 :: Session III - Psycholinguistics and Corpus Analysis :: Chair: Emily Nava
• Roberto Mayoral Hernandez :: “Weight and Subject Position in Spanish: a Corpus Analysis”
• Aaron Walker :: “Where Syntax Ends and Discourse Begins: The Nature and Reality of Copy Alpha”
• Ed Holsinger :: “Nominal Hierarchies: Preliminary Evidence for the Existence of a hierarchy Bias in Adults on a Novel Word Task”
• 5:15 - 5:45 :: GSIL Elections

It’s almost time for the 7th annual Student Workshop, in which current students present the work that they’ve been doing all year.

The event is scheduled for Tuesday, May 1st.

As a result, the Student Workshop Organizing Committee is now inviting interested students to contact them if they wish to present something. Both undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to present. Papers from all areas of linguistics are welcome, and we hope to have as many areas represented as possible.

This is an excellent opportunity to talk about your work (term papers, honors theses, screening papers, qualifying papers, etc.), develop presentation skills, and get feedback from students and faculty. Don’t be shy!! We want to know what you’re working on!!

Students who are interested in presenting should email the committee or contact Michael Shepherd stating the presentation area AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. A title and short abstract will be due by April 23, 2007.