MIT will be well represented at the 47th meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, to be held next week (April 7-9). In addition to plenary talks by Colin Philips (PhD 1996) and faculty member Norvin Richards, the program includes talks by:
- Ezra Keshet (PhD 2008): “Contrastive focus and paycheck pronouns”
- Giorgio Magri (PhD 2009): “Correctness of OT online algorithms on Prince and Tesar’s (2004) test cases”
- Hadas Kotek, Yasutada Sudo, Edwin Howard, and Martin Hackl: “A superlative reading for mostprop”
- Ora Matushansky (PhD 2002) and Tania Ionin (BCS PhD 2003): “More than one solution”
- Young Ah Do and Seunghun J. Lee: “Acoustic bases of emotion related sound symbolism”
- Peter Graff and Jeremy Hartman: “Constraints on predication”
- Gillian Gallagher (PhD 2010): “Auditory features: the case from laryngeal cooccurrence restrictions”
- Jessica Coon (PhD 2010) and Omer Preminger: “Towards a unification of person splits”
Thank you to David Pesetsky for compiling this information.