Trilateral Linguistics Weekend (TREND) 2008

On May 10, 2008, The Linguistics Research Center (LRC) at UC Santa Cruz hosted the 2008 Trilateral Linguistics Weekend, an annual workshop that serves as a forum to encourage collaboration among linguistics students and faculty from UC Berkeley, Stanford, and UC Santa Cruz. Affiliates of all three institutions were invited to present the results of their research to the rest of the greater Bay Area linguistics community. The program for TREND 2008 is given below.

TREND 2008 Program

Saturday, May 10, 2008
Stevenson College Wagstaff Fireside Lounge [ map ]

9:30am: Coffee, Bagels, and Welcome
Session 1
10:00am
Scott AnderBois (UC Santa Cruz)
Strong Positions and Laryngeal Features in Yukatek Maya
10:40am
Russell Rhodes (UC Berkeley)
Vowel Harmony as Agreement by Correspondence: The Case of Khalkha Mongolian Rounding Harmony
11:20am
Doug Ball (Stanford)
Clause Structure in Tongan: Insights into Verb-Initiality
12:00pm - 1:30pm: Break for Lunch
Session 2
1:30pm
Olga Dmitrieva (Stanford)
The gradient phonotactics of English CVC syllables
2:10pm
Karen Sullivan (UC Berkeley)
Processing metaphoric and non-metaphoric polysemous verbs
2:50pm - 3:05pm: Break
Session 3
3:05pm
Keith Johnson & Sam Tilsen (UC Berkeley)
Measuring spoken rhythm
3:45pm
Ryan Bennett (UC Santa Cruz)
English resumptive pronouns and the highest-subject restriction: a corpus study
4:25pm - 4:40pm: Break
Session 4
4:40pm
Abby Kaplan (UC Santa Cruz)
Perceptual and Articulatory Influences on Phonological Alternations
5:20pm
Paul Kiparsky (Stanford)
Compensatory Lengthening: New evidence for Stratal OT
6:00pm: Party!