USC Linguistics

Professor Stephanie Shih packs charcoal palatography lab kits to be mailed to undergraduates taking linguistics classes remotely.

Tuesday, March 3rd, there was a department happy hour!

Sunday, March 1, USC linguists took visiting speaker Gaja Jarosz on a hike in LA's famous Griffith Park.

USC linguists past and present at Berkeley Linguistics Society Workshop 2020!

L to R: Jason Shaw, Larry Hyman, Rachel Walker, Stephanie Shih, Hayeun Jang

Congratulations to Haley Wei Wei, who successfully defended her dissertation, 'Discourse Particles in Mandarin Chinese,' this afternoon!

Pictured: Haley and her committee (from left to right), Deniz Rudin, Audrey Li, Andrew Simpson, and Namkil Kim

Practicing static palatography for LING 275 “Language & Mind” lab sections this week. 😛

With Deniz Rudin, Jina Song, and Luis Miguel Toquero Pérez

USC linguists were well represented at this year's annual meeting of the 2020 Linguistics Society of America in New Orleans!
Jina Song and Elsi Kaiser gave a talk "Effects of discourse factors on the interpretation of Korean null pronouns in subject and object position". Elsi Kaiser and Catherine Wang presented a poster "Distinguishing fact from opinion: Effects of linguistic packaging". Yijing Lu presented a poster "Relating acoustic similarity and perceptual similarity: a case study using computational methods". Betul Erbasi gave a talk with Songul Gundogdu Yucel entitled "Ezafe as a Linking Feature within DP", and a talk "Assertion and Evidence in Embedded Contexts". Mairym Llorens Monteserin gave a talk "Skilled orchestration of speech and tics in adults with Tourette syndrome". Cynthia Lee (PhD 2018), Louis Goldstein, and Dani Byrd presented a talk "Laryngeal consonant and phrasal tone dynamics in Seoul Korean". Charlie O'Hara presented the posters "The Effect of Learnability on Constraint Weighting: Case Study from Contour Tone Licensing" and "Frequency Matching Behavior in On-line MaxEnt Learners". Elsi Kaiser and Deniz Rudin presented a talk "When faultless disagreement is not so faultless: What widely-held opinions can tell us about subjective adjectives". Khalil Iskarous gave a minicourse "Mobile Apps for Endangered Language Revitalization and Documentation".
Congratulations to Khalil Iskarous who was senior co-chair of the program committee for organizing a great annual meeting!

Alexis Wellwood gave comments in an Author Meets Critics session at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association. The book Alexis commented on is called Physics Avoidance: Essays in Conceptual Strategy, by Mark Wilson (University of Pittsburgh). Alexis commented on the challenges scientific discourses pose for the philosophy of language.

Great meeting with the USiL E-Board!

Great treats and great conversations with USC Linguistics Professors and students during "Tea Time".

November 2, 2019, Maria Luisa Zubizarreta and 7 USC graduate students (Tommy Tze Ming Lee, Danel Plesniak, Betul Erbasi, Luismi Toquero Perez, Jun Lyu, Haley Wei Wei, and Madhu Datta) attended the 1st Southern California Annual Meeting on Syntax (SCAMS) at Pomona College. Luis Miguel Toquero Perez gave a presentation entitled "The Syntax and Semantics of Spanish Comparatives: a Uniform Account."

Planning to see the “Pokémon: Detective Pikachu” movie? You might find the popular media franchise holds lessons in how the human mind makes the connection between sounds and their meanings, according to research by USC Dornsife linguist Stephanie Shih

Pokémon can teach us about language > News > USC Dornsife Planning to see the “Pokémon: Detective Pikachu” movie? You might find the popular media franchise holds lessons in how the human mind makes the connection between sounds and their meanings, according to research by USC Dornsife linguist Stephanie Shih.