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The Weekly Newsletter of MIT Linguistics

MIT @ CLS 46

MIT will be well represented at the 46th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society this weekend (April 8-10). The program includes talks by:

  • Luka Crnic: “Imperatives in unconditionals”
  • Young Ah Do: “Why do Korean children learn some alternations before others?”
  • Peter Graff: “Longitudinal phonetic variation in a closed system” (with Max Bane and Morgan Sonderegger, University of Chicago), and “Comparing Pluralities” (with Gregory Scontras of Harvard and Noah Goodman of MIT)
  • Patrick Grosz: “German doch: An Element that Triggers a Contrast Presupposition”
  • Pritty Patel-Grosz: “First Conjunct Agreement under Agreement Displacement”
  • Kirill Shklovsky: “Person-Case Effects in Tseltal”