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GLOW and CLS 2015

Congratulations to the students who have been accepted to give talks or present posters at GLOW 38 and CLS 51 in April!

GLOW:

  • Third year student Lilla Magyar: The role of universal markedness in Hungarian gemination processes
  • Third year student Chris O’Brien: How to get off an island
  • Third year student Juliet Stanton: The learnability filter and its role in the comparison of metrical theories (accepted for the phonology workshop, titled ”The implications of Computation and Learnability for Phonological Theory”)
  • Third year student Benjamin Storme: Aspectual distinctions in the present tense in Romance and cross-linguistically

CLS:

  • Third year students Juliet Stanton and Sam Zukoff: Prosodic effects of segmental correspondence
  • Second year student Michelle Yuan: Case competition and case domains: Evidence from Yimas

Two recent alumni, now at McGill, will also give talks at these conferences:

  • Hadas Kotek (PhD 2014) will give a talk at GLOW: Intervention everywhere!
  • Hadas Kotek (PhD 2014) and Mitcho Erlewine (PhD 2014) will give a joint talk at CLS: Relative pronoun pied-piping, the structure of which informs the analysis of relative clauses