FYIs

Prof. Cutler co-organized a panel on language activism at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 24 in Ghent, Belgium, July 13-16, 2022 .  She will give a talk entitled "Labelling ethnolects: challenges and potentials in light of the “principle of error correction”.

Prof. Kyle Gorman will be giving a NL seminar at the Information Sciences Institute at University of Southern California on June 23, 2022,  titled, “Weighted Finite-State Transducers: The Later Years”.   

Prof. Gorman will also be teaching a linguistics workshop at NASSLLI 2022, June 18-24 at the University of Southern California, hosted by USC: https://ml-la.github.io/nasslli2022/index.html. 

The celebration of Black Music Month, Pride and Juneteenth, Provides a Platform for Examining How Black Creative Practices Can Continue to Advance Social Justice. Read the article.

By Britton Williams

PhD: Boram Kim, Susana Huidobro, Chaya Nove, SeJin Oh, and Jennifer Seale

MA: Kelsey Bourque, Matthew Kadish, Jonathan I. Manczur, Lara Novic, William Oliver, Yuying Ren, Yulia Spektor, Natalia Tyulina, and Brynne Wilkinson

Pamela presented her poster titled, “On the processing of filler gap dependencies in L2 Italian: A self-paced reading study” at GASLA16 (Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition), The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, May 12-14, 2022

Date: Thursday, June 16, 2022
Time: 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Location: online (Zoom)
Thesis: Finite Gaussian Neurons: Defending Against Adversarial Attacks by Making Neural Networks Say “I Don’t Know”

Zoom meeting details:
Meeting ID: 841 7806 6759
Passcode: 468229

We are happy to share that our Distinguished Professor Emeritus Richard Alba, has ranked #110 in the world and #69 nationally among top scientists in the area of Law and Political Science.

The full world ranking published by Research.com.

Congratulations to Professor Richard Alba on this important accomplishment!

Men benefit from abortion—why don't cis men talk about their abortion stories and why do we mostly study women?

Read the op-ed "Men Have a Lot to Lose When Roe Falls" in New York Times written by our alumna Andréa Becker, who just began her postdoc journey at University of California San Francisco.

Porru I., Stern M.C., and Martohardjono G.,(2022, May). Comparing dominance measures in speakers of typologically different languages: A case study of Turkish-English Bilinguals. In Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Central Asian Languages and Linguistics (pp. 211-223).”

Date: Friday, June 10, 2022
Time: 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Location: online (Zoom)
Thesis: Influence Level Prediction on Social Media Through Multi-Task and Sociolinguistic User Characteristics Modeling

Zoom meeting details:
Meeting ID: 816 5988 9460
Passcode: 270711