Vast numbers of current MIT linguists and alumni prowled the corridors of the Portland Hilton presenting papers and posters at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America on January 8-11, 2015. The following talks and posters featured MIT presenters:
- Athulya Aravind: The structure and interpretation of Malayalam clefts
- Ruth Brillman and Aron Hirsch : An anti-locality approach to English subject/non-subject asymmetries
- Kai von Fintel presented on Open Access at the Special Session on the Publishing Process
- Martin Hackl, Erin Olson and Ayaka Sugawara: Processing only: Scalar presupposition and the structure of ALT(S)
- Martin Hackl, Ayaka Sugawara and Ken Wexler: Question-answer (in)congruence in the acquisition of ‘only’
- Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (‘14; McGill University), Theodore Levin, and Coppe van Urk:Voice morphology as extraction marking
- Aron Hirsch: Exhaustive answers and polarity-mismatch
- Theodore Levin : Toward a unified analysis of antipassive and pseudo noun incorporation constructions
- Ryo Masuda : Pitch as a stop voicing cue is affected by minimal pairs and prosody: Hypo- and hyperarticulation in Japanese
- Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel and Elizabeth Choi :Distribution of glottalized onsets in task-directed American English speech
- Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel and Jennifer Cole (University of Illinois) : Imitation as a tool for investigating cues to prosodic structure
- Donca Steriade : Reduplication and reconstructed syllable structure in Indo-European
- Ayaka Sugawara and Ken Wexler : Acquisition of inverse-scope readings: Evidence from Japanese scrambling and contrastive topic prosody
- Wataru Uegaki : Predicting the variation in the exhaustivity of embedded interrogatives
- Coppe van Urk : The A/A’-distinction in Dinka
- Suyeon Yun : Auditory properties explain cluster-dependent epenthesis asymmetries
- Sam Zukoff : Syllable-level OCP effects in Indo-European reduplication
Several recent alumni were also present:
- Jessica Coon (‘10; McGill) organized and presented at a Tutorial on “LingSync and ProsodyLab-Aligner: Tools for Linguistic Fieldwork and OS2 Experimentation”; her copresenters were recent visiting faculty member Alan Bale (Concordia) and Michal Wagner (‘05; Mcgill)
- Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (‘14 McGill University): On the position of focus adverbs
- Jonah Katz (‘10; West Virginia University): Continuity lenition
- Jonah Katz (‘10; West Virginia University) and Melinda Fricke (Pennsylvania State University): Lenition/fortition patterns aid prosodic segmentation
- Hadas Kotek (‘14; McGill University) : A new compositional semantics for wh-questions
A picture of Aron Hirsch poster presentation:
A picture of Theodore Levin poster presentation:
