Caroline Andrews successfully defended her dissertation “There and Gone Again: Syntactic Structure in Memory” on August 22, 2019. Congratulations Caroline!
Author Archives: Joseph Pater
Hughto defends her dissertation!
Coral Hughto successfully defended her dissertation “Emergent typological effects of agent-based learning models in Maximum Entropy Grammar” on August 20, 2019. Congratulations Coral!
Bui defends her dissertation!
Thuy Bui successfully defended her dissertation “Binding and Coreference in Vietnamese” on July 25, 2019. Congratulations Thuy!
Bhatia defends her dissertation!
Sakshi Bhatia successfully defended her dissertation “Computing Agreement in a Mixed System” on July 8th, 2019. Congratulations Sakshi!
Kusmer defends his dissertation!
On July 1, Leland Kusmer successfully defended his dissertation “Optimal Linearization: Prosodic Displacement in Khoekhoegowab and Beyond”. Congratulations Leland!
Nazarov to Utrecht
Aleksei Nazarov (PhD 2016) has begun a position as Lecturer in the Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence programs at Utrecht University. Congratulations Alex!
Poole and Keine to UCLA
Ethan Poole (PhD 2017) has just started a position as Assistant Professor at UCLA, and Stefan Keine (PhD 2016) will also join UCLA as Assistant Professor in the fall of 2020. Congratulations Ethan and Stefan!
Note: This will make four UMass Linguistics alumni on the UCLA faculty – the others are Claire Moore-Cantwell (PhD 2016) and Jesse Harris (PhD 2012).
Language and Music Workshop this Sunday May 12th
The UMass Amherst Department of Linguistics and the Department of Music and Dance, with additional support from the Interdisciplinary Studies Institute, will host a Language and Music Workshop on the afternoon of Sunday May 12th. The event will take place from noon until 5:45 in N400 in the Integrative Learning Center. Parking is free in permit lots on Sunday; the ILC is at the top corner of the pond on this map.
There are five invited speakers, and five poster presentations listed below. Please join us for lunch beforehand!
Questions? Please e-mail Joe Pater at pater@umass.edu.
Schedule
Noon – Catered lunch
1:00 Bob Ladd – University of Edinburgh
Two problems in theories of tone-melody matching (Abstract)
1:45 François Dell – Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l’Asie Orientale (CRLAO) CNRS / EHESS, Paris
Delivery design: towards a typology (Abstract)
2:30 Laura McPherson – Dartmouth College
Tonal adaptation across musical modality: A comparison of Sambla vocal music and speech surrogates (Abstract)
3:15 Poster session (see below for a list of posters)
4:15 Christopher White – University of Massachusetts Amherst
Analogies with Language in Machine-learned Musical Grammars
5:00 Mara Breen – Mount Holyoke College
The Cat in the Hat: Musical and linguistic metric structure realization in child-directed poetry (Abstract)
5:45 Goodbye.
Posters
Ellie Abrams, Laura Gwilliams, Alec Marantz (NYU, NYU Abu Dhabi)
Tracking the building blocks of pitch perception in auditory cortex (Abstract)
Kyle Marcos Allphin, Smith College ’19
Perception of Emotional Characteristics in Diatonic Chords (Abstract)
Ahren B. Fitzroy (Mount Holyoke College, University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and Mara Breen (Mount Holyoke College)
Implicit metric structure in aprosodic productions of The Cat in the Hat modulates auditory processing (Abstract)
Bronwen Garand-Sheridan, Yale University
Sound-symbolic semantics of pitch space (Abstract)
Emily Schwitzgebel, UMass Amherst and Will Evans, UMass Amherst
Subtle Violations in Harmonic Expectancy (Abstract)
Hauser defends her dissertation!
Ivy Hauser successfully defended her PhD dissertation “Effects of Phonological Contrast on Within-Category Phonetic Variation” on May 9th, 2019. Congratulations Ivy!
Vostrikova defends her dissertation!
Ekaterina Vostrikova successfully defended her PhD dissertation “Phrasal and Clausal Exceptive-Additive Constructions” on Monday, May 6th. Congratulations Katia!