The preliminary program of talks for WCCFL 27 at UCLA (May 16-18) has been posted, and MIT promises to be well represented! Accepted talks or posters by current or recent MIT affiliates include:
Current MIT graduate students:
- Franz Cozier: Encoding perceived contrast between CC-clusters & simplified counterparts in coda CC simplification
- Jessica Coon: When Ergative = Genitive: Nominals and Split Ergativity
- Maria Giavazzi: On the distribution of velar palatalization in Italian
- Guillaume Thomas: An analysis of the Xiamen Tone Circle
- Gillian Gallagher: Identity and laryngeal features
- Claire Halpert: Overlap-Driven Consequences of Nasal Place Assimilation in Zulu
- Jeremy Hartman: Dwarf-class verbs, Theta-theory, and Argument Linking
- Ezra Keshet: Only the Strong: Restricting Situation Variables Jason Varvoutis: Verification Procedures for Modified Numeral Quantifiers (with Jorie Koster-Moeller and Martin Hackl)
MIT faculty:
- Adam Albright: Chaotic evolution in an unbiased learner
Recent alums:
- Liina Pylkännen (plenary speaker, Saturday)
- Marta Abrusan: An interval-based semantics for degree questions: negative islands and their obviation (with Benjamin Spector)
- Heejeong Ko: Economy in rightward movement: moving into inner edge (with Jae-Young Choi)
- Martin Hackl: Verification Procedures for Modified Numeral Quantifiers (with Jorie Koster-Moeller and Jason Varvoutis); D-Raising in Restrictive Relative Clauses (with Jorie Koster-Moeller)
- Jon Nissenbaum: The scope of too with gapped infinitival clauses (with Bernhard Schwarz)
- Tania Ionin (BCS PhD): An experimental investigation of the semantics and pragmatics of specificity
- Christina Kim (2003 S.B, linguistics minor): Information integration and domain restriction: Interpreting ‘only’ in context (with Christine Gunlogson, Michael Tanenhaus and Jeffrey Runner)
Recent or current visitors:
- Bartosz Wiland: Circumstantial Evidence for Syntactic Head Movement
- Chiyuki Ito: Analogical Changes in the Accent of Sino-Korean Words in Yanbian Korean
[Thanks to David Pesetsky]