MIT is well represented at NELS 41, held this weekend (10/23-24) at the University of Pennsylvania. Noam Chomsky will deliver the keynote address, entitled “Should we study Language? If so, how?” The following students and recent alumni will be giving talks:
- Alya Asarina: Neutrality vs. Ambiguity in Resolution by Syncretism: Experimental Evidence and Consequences
- Bronwyn Bjorkman: A Syntactic Correlate of Semantic Asymmetries in Clausal Coordination
- Seth Cable (UMass): The Optionality of EPP in Dholuo
- Jessica Coon (Harvard) and Omer Preminger: Transitivity in Chol: A New Argument for the Split-VP Hypothesis
- Luka Crnic: Pragmatic Enrichment and Concessive Scalarity
- Maria Giavazzi (ENS): Getting Rid of Positional Faithfulness in Stressed Positions: The Phonetic Underpinnings of Prosodic Conditioning