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LASC 2009

March 8, 2008

On Saturday March 8th, the department hosted one of the most important events of the year—the annual graduate student conference known as LASC (Linguistics at Santa Cruz). This annual event provides second and third year students in the program with the opportunity to present their current research before an audience of students, faculty , friends and peers. It has become a tradition to invite a distinguished alumnus or alumna to give the final lecture at the conference. This year's guest speaker was Ted Fernald, who spoke on What I wanted to read about Navajo when I was in graduate school. Fernald received the PhD from UCSC in 1994 and is currently Professor and Chair of Linguistics at Swarthmore College. This year's LASC featured seven talks on the syntax, semantics, morphology, phonology, and phonetics of languages as diverse as Yukatek Maya, Irish, German, Iraqi Arabic, German, and K'ichee'. Details are available here and here