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graduated from UCSC in 2003 with an undergraduate degree in Language Studies. Her interests include, but are not limited to, the preservation and study of dialects and of grammar variation, specifically on a syntactic and phonetic level. This interest extends to the many dialects in Italy, where she is currently teaching English.
does work primarily in formal semantics, with a particular focus on semantic issues in Yukatek Maya (through fieldwork). In particular, he has done work on the connection between polar questions and disjunction as well as work on the semantics of deixis and definiteness. He has also researched the nature of strong position and laryngeal features in Yukatek Maya.
is primarily interested in phonology, and particularly in the way that phonetic factors help shape formal phonological systems. He is also interested in socially-conditioned linguistic variation. His current research languages include Irish and non-standard varieties of English.
originally comes to UCSC from Rutgers University, where he earned a BA in Linguistics in 2000. His current research interests include the nature of underlying representations in morphological paradigms and prosody, especially the prosody of Irish and the syntax-prosody interface. In the most recent quarter, Andrew completed a qualifying paper on base-selection criteria in Pengo.
is interested in syntax, Distributed Morphology, and semantics. His senior project was in semantics, looking at accusative and possessive gerundive nominalizations and their semantic differences. He also has taken some interest in models of cognitive psychology, specifically looking at models with acquisition patterns similar to language as well as behavioral patterns possibly explainable by means of Optimality Theory.
works primarily in syntax, with a particular interest in German. Her current research concerns prosodic constraints affecting the sentential position of German weak pronouns.
is a fifth-year student with an interest in the morphosyntax of Slavic languages, in particular Russian and Bulgarian. She has worked on the morphosyntax of Bulgarian definiteness marking (with Ascander Dost) and the typology and interpretation of coordinated multiple wh-questions (to appear in LI). More recently she has been working on the morphophonology and morphosyntax of Russian prefixation. She has a concurrent interest in exploring Heritage Languages. [website]
is primarily interested in syntax. His previous research projects have focused on various topics in the morpho-syntax of Balkan languages, the processing of Russian numeral phrases, and modeling the gender system of Tsez. Boris has worked in the Lab for Language Processing and Heritage Languages at Harvard and he is currently an editorial assistant for NLLT.
has interests that span semantics, logic, and cognitive science, but he has a special love for the indigenous languages of Latin America. His B.A. thesis was on aspects of extraction in Kaqchikel (Mayan), a language in which he has done substantial fieldwork. He is currently thinking a lot about scope, distributivity, and DP denotations in Mayan, as well as the syntax/prosody interface in K'ichee'. Robert is always looking for ways put his linguistic expertise in the service of indigenous communities and speakers. [website]
research interests are in the phonetics-phonology interface: the implications of phonetic facts for formal phonological representations. She has investigated the role of perceptual factors in the realization of nasal-stop clusters in English, the role of articulatory factors in intervocalic lenition, and the different effects of phonetic and phonological pressures on lexical frequency. [website]
is primarily interested in morphophonology, with a focus on reduplication and other nonconcatenative phenomena. He is also pursuing work in language engineering in cooperation with the Information Systems Management program, with a focus on developing computational tools and methods for minority languages. Language interests include Kwak'wala, Dakota, Tohono O'odham, Yiddish, and Chinese. [website]
has a primary interest in syntax, along with phonology and phonetics. He spent a year abroad in England where he studied sociolinguistics and phonetic theory. Previous work includes investigations into the effects of relative clauses when they modify verb phrases and the distribution of FACE vowel allophones in the Newcastle dialect of English. He is interested in Portuguese, Old English, and Nordic languages and hopes to investigate these languages in the future.
graduated from the University of Iowa in 2007, with a major in Linguistics and a minor in French. At present, he is interested in both syntax and phonology. Previous research includes a paper on vowel harmony and consonant gradation in Finnish, and work with Madurese (Austronesian) texts. Mark also has a linguistic interest in Icelandic, having spent a year in Iceland as an undergraduate.
specializes in syntax. His work concentrates on phenomena in Austronesian languages, and he has most recently investigated Palauan causative, applicative, and passive constructions. In phonology, he has also examined properties of Austronesian and Austroasiatic discontiguous reduplication. [website]
is primarily interested in phonology, especially loanword phonology and phonetic groundings for phonological principles. He has worked on Japanese, Cantonese, Zulu, and Hindi-Urdu, as well as other Indo-Aryan languages. He has also done research with computational modeling, including neural network models of inflectional morphology and Optimality Theory computation. [website]
graduated with a BA in Linguistics from Cornell in Spring 2008. Her interests lie in morphosyntax, the syntax-semantics interface, and the structure of Japanese. Anie wrote a senior thesis on internally-headed relative clauses in Japanese, in which she sought a unified account of semantic restrictions on the head and the fact that it does not raise.
is primarily interested in the interfaces of syntax with other parts of the grammar. He works on Afroasiatic languages, especially Arabic and Berber. He has also worked on the morphosyntax of reflexives in Arabic, as well as the colloquial Arabic subject-verb agreement system. His current work includes parasitic gap constructions with in situ questions in Arabic, and the distribution of geminate consonants in Imdlawn Tashlhiyt Berber. [website]
works primarily on phonology and semantics. In phonology, he is interested in issues at the phonetics interface, with special attention to Gestural Phonology and Dispersion Theory. His research in semantics includes information structure and multiple-Wh questions. He is currently developing a game-theoretic account of external sandhi in English and Korean.